162 Wiarno City and the Slith Sect (1)

[2 days later, outside of Wiarno City, the capital city of the Wiarno Kingdom]

[In a certain building at the centre of a remote compound on the outskirts of the city's territory near the southern border of the Wiarno Kingdom]

An elderly man with barely any hair left was pacing back and forth in a long, tall-ceilinged hall which looked to be able to accommodate more than a hundred people at once. The hall was lined with ensconces for torches or other forms of light, however, these were now mostly vacant holes on the walls, the contents long sold off. Those torches or light sources that still remained were also mostly not lit, the magical lighting left off to save running costs for the sect.