Chapter 719: Both Sides of the Main Gate

Sherry's consciousness had jolted awake from a collapsing dreamscape, and she opened her eyes in the darkness to find herself still lying in what resembled a thorn bush of dark shrubbery.

Low murmurs and bizarre growls seemed almost within earshot, about to penetrate her brain, while a chilly airflow spread like nauseating tendrils from the gaps in the shadows as if to lick her skin. Something outside the shrubbery, a group of writhing entities with fluctuating sizes and indiscernible solid outlines, had scented the presence of living flesh and crossed great distances to find this hiding spot—a gluttonous feast was about to begin.

Sherry twitched her arm slightly, and the stiffness and numbness throughout her body made any movement exceedingly difficult, but she felt a slight warmth spreading from somewhere inside her body, rejuvenating the corpse she had become just moments before.