The preparations for the trial room are underway.
In the core area of the Shadow Trial Arena, the stone hall known as the "Willpower Altar" is now completely sealed.
Several technicians in alchemical white robes are busily adjusting the concentration of the potions and the temperature control devices around the central stone platform.
A faint white mist begins to drift in the air of the altar, the vaporized spores of the Shadow Lichen, gently drawn into various air circulation ducts as the indoor temperature gradually decreases.
This space was originally the main ritual hall of the ancient Snow Swearers, with crumbling ritual engravings covering the walls.
The circles of blue phosphorescence flicker slightly in the dense fog, creating a kind of almost tangible mental pressure.
Amidst this nerve-wracking atmosphere, the knights undergoing breakthroughs sit cross-legged, immersed in painful struggle, completely unaware of what is happening outside.
