"I can answer your questions about the monster," Han Dong said. "However, the issue of 'Locks and Locksmiths' involves the court's secrets. It's also a matter I've been probing since descending into the Demon Region, and to this day, I have yet to find an answer."
Frozen Bone–Luo Gaocheng spoke with equal gravity when discussing this issue, he hadn't been idle during his time below either. Apart from practicing "Corpse Collection: Assistant–Zombie Mortis," he was also covertly pursuing the truth of the world.
"Monsters are actually a side effect of the 'Decree of Corpse Transformation.' Since the decree was issued, according to some folk records, a dense miasma rose from the skies above the Imperial City, even forming some fierce corpse apparitions... Since then, the world has been slowly undergoing transformation.
Decades have passed.
