"This place is … the legendary …"
The creature called the Scholar was looking at the scenery in front of it with surprise.
In front of it was a land made of rocks. All kinds of plants grew in the cracks of the rocks, dyeing the ground green.
But they had not completely covered the original appearance of this place. Among these plants, there were all kinds of circular buildings. The Scholar was looking forward to seeing them.
This was because this was the top floor of the Skeletal Dragon's castle. This place was a huge platform with many buildings standing on it. There was also a huge pool that used to be used to raise empty jellyfish.
Now, the pool had dried up, and the building was full of cracks and overgrown plants. However, none of these could hide the glory of the past. When the scholars saw the scene, they could imagine that this place used to be a prosperous medieval empire.
However, this medieval era was not created slowly. It was said that the creator promoted the evolution of the Skeletal Dragon in order to make them his worshippers.
The subspecies were also produced here. They had always tried to obstruct the creator's plan.
In the end, the Skeletal Dragon population died out, leaving behind their former kingdom.
The Scholar had always wanted to see this place, but it did not expect to be caught here by an empty jellyfish. The empty jellyfish was no longer here.
But the Scholar could not check out the buildings.
Because the Scholar was trapped in this place.
The Scholar was now in the huge pool that used to be. The water in the pool had long dried up, but it wasn't empty. The remains of many creatures could be seen inside. There were also some strange "buildings."
For example... a tower made of bones.
Some of the towers were almost as tall as the pool, and the Scholar was now on a bone tower in the center of the pool. The empty jellyfish left it here and flew away.
As for this tower, the scholar could easily tell what kind of creature had built it.
Dwarfs... There were many dwarfs living in the Skeletal Dragon ruins. There were quite a lot of them here. They were one of the creatures that the Scholar did not want to meet.
But now the Scholar thought. It should have some ways to communicate with the dwarfs if it met them. It had to find a way to escape from them before it starved to death.
Now, it just had to wait for them to come out...
But why would the empty jellyfish catch it here for the dwarfs? Did the dwarfs tame the empty jellyfish and catch prey for them?
That shouldn't be possible. Because the dwarfs...
While the Scholar was lost in thought, he suddenly heard the sound of running water.
"What's going on?"
The scholar suddenly realized that there was a large amount of water around the dried up pool. The water washed away all the debris on the ground and slowly gathered into shallow water in the pool.
In the water, the Scholar noticed that a large number of creatures had appeared out of thin air. They were moving slowly in the shallow water, and all of them were gathering at the foot of the Scholar's bone tower.
No, they didn't appear out of thin air. They must have maintained their color-changing state in the dried-up pool. Therefore, the scholars did not notice it. But after the water was added, they turned white, so they were quite conspicuous.
These creatures … were the ancient squids.
Why was Gu Kuo here? And they were all hiding in the dried-up pool. However, it was clear that they were related to the Sky Jellyfish.
Excluding the tentacles, these ancient squids had a body length of 30 centimeters, which was considered a relatively large species. Now, they were all gathered at the bottom of the tower, and it seemed like a few of them wanted to climb up.
This pagoda shouldn't have been built by ancient squids because they didn't like bones.
However … The pagoda might have been used by them, and they were climbing up the pagoda. The Scholar could not jump down now, nor could he jump to the shore because the pagoda was in the center of the pool, which was dozens of meters away from the shore. What should he do?
The Scholar was not sure what the ancient squids would do to him, but it was better to avoid them. Now that he could not escape, he could only see if this method worked.
The Scholar took out the video device and faced the ancient squids below. It turned on a special mode.
This mode would rapidly change its color. This should have an effect on the ancient squid, but it was uncertain what the effect would be. However, many ancient squids saw the continuous change of color as a threat signal. Perhaps this could be used to scare them away.
"It seems to be effective …?" When the Scholar played the constantly changing 3D image on the pagoda, the ancient squids under the pagoda stopped. They looked at the image released by the Scholar, and then they began to change their color constantly.
Were they "communicating" with the image?
The Scholar was curious about this phenomenon. The Scholar suddenly thought of a method. He held the video device and climbed down the pagoda.
The bone pagoda had many protruding parts, so it was easy to climb up. As the Scholar climbed down, the ancient squids saw the changing colors getting closer and closer, and they retreated one after another.
It was effective!
The Scholar immediately sped up and climbed to the bottom of the pagoda. As the Scholar climbed down, the ancient squids all retreated to the side. They were still waving their tentacles and changing the color of their bodies.
Seeing them retreat, the Scholar immediately ran towards the pool wall. The Scholar had already seen the ladder that could be used to climb up the pool.
The ancient squids did not chase after him. Although they kept changing colors in place, they did not seem to want to attack.
The Scholar quickly ran to a place where he could climb up. It was a bone ladder made of a large number of bones inserted into the wall. The Scholar first tested the hardness of the ladder, and after confirming that it could withstand his weight, he climbed up …
"… Phew, I'm finally up."
After climbing up, the Scholar looked at the pool behind him. The ancient squids were still changing colors, but they did not chase after him.
Then, there was no need to care about them.
The Scholar turned off the video device and turned to the place he had always wanted to go … the place where the skeletal dragon's buildings were.
The Scholar walked towards the largest building. It was a domed stone building. Although it was surrounded by vines, the various ornate carvings on it were not damaged. On both sides of the door were exquisite dinosaur carvings. There were also various exquisite paintings on the floor. The Scholar believed that this could be considered a king's palace.
"This is …" The moment the Scholar stepped into the building, he was attracted by something in front of him. He bent down and picked it up.
This must be the 'shell'.
The Scholar picked up a semicircular object. The small object was engraved with a very detailed pattern. This must be the Skeletal Dragon's' currency '. It was a shell of a type of shellfish that they used to trade.
"But it doesn't seem to have a denomination on it." The Scholar found that the carvings on it did not have any symbols that represented numbers.
There were a lot of shells scattered on the ground, as if they had been scattered by a Skeleton Dragon when it was escaping. Everything in the room looked the same.
They were scattered all over the floor, but almost none of them were damaged. The Scholar could carefully investigate these things.
…
"I see. Almost all of these are luxurious ornaments …"
The Scholar was now holding a scepter and a piece of ornate stone and carefully studying them. The result of the study was … These things were useless.
But they were definitely worth a lot.
Because of the beautiful carvings on them, and the materials of these things were very rare, at least for this island. The ones who carved them must be quite skilled 'masters.'
Sure enough, like the Voidfolk, these creatures loved luxury items. The only use they had was to show their 'identity.'
Identity was a very important thing for creatures with individuality. The Scholar used to care about it, but now … He felt that his memories of the past were vague and empty. It was as if everything he cared about before was meaningless.
The final purpose of these things was to be thrown in this place to describe the history of the past to newcomers.
The Scholar found many similar things. After looking through them, the Scholar left the building and continued to move on to other buildings.
The Scholar believed that if he went into the castle, he would be able to see more things. But he still wanted to look through the buildings on the castle first.
At the same time, the Scholar felt hungry. He wanted to find something to eat … He didn't know if there were any delicious fungi here.
… At the same time, on the other side …
"I will never tell you, unless you turn around three times!"
This was a dark cave full of crystals.
The imam's alloy spider was now lying on a brain-created monster. Beside it were many pieces of wood and a large tree lying on the ground.
Not long ago, they went through a fierce battle. Although they had a huge advantage in numbers, they all fell in front of the imam's alloy spider.
This was because the spider was equipped with many weapons, which allowed it to deal with many targets.
However, the imam's spider was also damaged. He had to leave this place to recover and replenish his energy. But …
The brain-created monster didn't seem to tell him how to leave.
"You can't know, you won't know …"
The brain-created monster continued to send meaningless messages. This made the imam feel a little … want to kill it.
But the imam would not do that. He felt that he should use a new method to make the brain-created monster 'speak'.
With that thought in mind, the imam's spider turned to the side and pulled out a crystal from the ground. Then, it turned back to the brain-creation monster and said, "If you don't tell me, I'll pierce this crystal into your brain.
"…" The brain-created monster seemed to hesitate.
After some hesitation, it gave an answer. "I will tell you."
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