Ah, I said it playfully, but this was actually a serious matter.
Perhaps because I now held the 'Judgment', I could feel the lingering thoughts buried in this land better. That bitter, sad feeling seeped into my core and crawled into my ear to scream for help. It created a suffocating feeling that was different from polluted mana. I wondered if this was what people felt when strolling into a haunted house or an abandoned hospital.
It wasn't a ghost or anything. What was left behind was the negative thought; the scream of a son calling for his mother as he was dying, the curse people hurled as they were stabbed and blasted, the cry of a father thinking about his family...