In the opulent hall, almost the moment the mask was lifted, an unusually strong stench filled the air, causing everyone nearby to take a few steps back.

It was the smell of a corpse that had been submerged in the ocean for an unknown period, perfectly matching the current image of the "impostor."

The figure resembled a skeleton, but not the clean, white skeletons found in hospitals or dissection rooms.

It looked like a complete corpse that had been thrown into the sea for countless years and then retrieved. The flesh had been eaten by fish and decomposed by the ocean's ecosystem, but without any treatment, the bones were not white but covered in various dark hues.