Deep within the Chancellor's Estate in the Imperial Capital.
This was not the magnificent main body of the estate, but rather hidden among the artificial rockery in the back garden. An extremely secret, moss-covered narrow stone staircase wound downward, leading to a subterranean space that never saw the light of day year-round.
The heavy, unyielding darkness was like thick black ink. The air was filled with a nauseating mix of odors—the pungent smell of sulfur and saltpeter, the bitter stench of strong medicinal herbs, and a faint yet bone-deep sweet, rotting stench of corpses.
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