He easily distinguished the emotions which were favourable to his designs, and seized every means with avidity of infusing corruption into Antonia's bosom.
The reason, Agartha, though once an underground city of incomparable beauty has now been corrupted and is haunted by evil demons who hunger for human souls.
Now it was to hide something that had a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself—something that would breed horrors and yet would never die.