Chapter 379: Chapter 379: Ghosts of Love and Loss

The sun cast a warm glow over the village as Elara and her team prepared to leave. The sense of accomplishment from their successful intervention at the ritual site lent them renewed energy. The villagers, now visibly more at ease, offered them supplies and heartfelt thanks as they set off towards their next destination.

The path ahead led them through a series of ancient ruins rumored to hold forgotten knowledge and hidden threats. These ruins, once part of a grand city now lost to time, were said to be filled with relics and traps, remnants of a bygone era.

As they approached the ruins, the landscape shifted from the rolling hills and meadows of the village to a rugged terrain dominated by crumbling stone structures and overgrown vegetation. The air grew cooler, and an eerie silence fell over the land, broken only by the crunch of their footsteps on the debris-strewn ground.