Noticing Gwen's gaze, Heti also looked over curiously. She then struggled to decipher the ancient words on the wall. But before she could finish, Gwen took the initiative to explain the meaning of the sentence.
Everyone present was stunned.
"This sentence … What does it mean?" Amber stared blankly at the line of words that seemed like a declaration. She said in disbelief, "Under normal circumstances, no one would say such a thing … And to write it in such a place!"
Heti, on the other hand, had an idea. "Only by disobeying the gods can humans live … Could it be that the gods want humans to perish?"
"Things related to the gods are often full of symbols and metaphors. You can't tell from the surface meaning of a sentence." Gwen said absent-mindedly. What came to his mind was the sensational facts that he heard when he established a connection with the Eternal Slate fragment.
Then he turned to Byron. "You mentioned that you found the remnants of the manuscripts here?"
Byron nodded. "Yes, it's here. But they're quite fragile. After we found them, we didn't dare to touch them. "
The remnants of the manuscripts were not sealed, but scattered messily on a table not far away. It seemed that for some reason, the people here did not take this batch of manuscripts with them when they left. The manuscripts were made of the inscribed parchment used by the magicians of the Kingdom of Gondor to keep records. It was because of this special material that the manuscripts could withstand the erosion of thousands of years after being exposed to the air.
But although the manuscripts themselves were not rotten, many of the words on them had faded and weathered to the point where they were difficult to read. Gwen roughly glanced at them and judged that at least half of them were unreadable.
Fortunately, there was still half left.
Heidi had already prepared for this. She had brought a newly enchanted scroll and a ceremonial feather pen. After seeing those precious ancient manuscripts, she immediately unfolded the scroll and let it float in the air beside her. Then she held the feather pen in one hand and put the other hand on the fragile ancient parchment. As she chanted an obscure spell, the magic power surged around her. Suddenly, the feather pen left her fingers and flew to the scroll on its own. It began to write rapidly.
The characters on the parchment were faithfully restored and copied by magic power, no matter whether they were clearly distinguishable or incomplete. Every time she "scanned" a piece of parchment, Heidi would take a breather and carefully pick up the original ancient manuscript that had been processed and put it into a small box that she had prepared beforehand.
Although the manuscripts were preserved, the original antiques were still quite valuable. It was better to preserve them. of course.
Gwen stood next to Heti and sighed slightly at the convenience of magic power. At the same time, he focused on the content presented on the scroll.
Because he had to extract valid readable information from a large number of deformed characters, Gwen read very slowly. But even so, some disturbing sentences gradually took shape. It did not seem to be a research note, or even a diary. After putting the words into sentences, Gwen only felt that they were like the ravings of a madman, full of terrible imagination and metaphors.
"… Watching it, it is watching me from the festering flesh … It is in me, I want to be in it …
"No one can survive, the day of the end is coming … Blasphemy will not let us linger …
"… Eat, eat, I eat the flesh of the gods and live here for a new century. They did not come, they still did not come, but I don't need them to come again. The outside world has collapsed, has collapsed … "
After that, there was a large paragraph of chaotic graffiti. The words turned into unrecognizable lines and symbols. It was not that the words on the original manuscript were blurred and distorted, but that the person who wrote them seemed to have gone mad. But after a few manuscripts, the crazy graffiti became readable words again:
"He sleeps in the depths of the earth, he sleeps in the depths of the sea, he sleeps in the depths of the sky, he is calling my name, that whisper …
"I see him, the face of God, he smiles at me in the light … Step forward, I am going to his kingdom. Ah, that is the greatest gift. God gave us flesh and blood for us to eat, so it was for this day … "
After that, there was a large paragraph of crazy lines. Even if a few words occasionally popped out of the graffiti, it seemed to be illogical and grammatical. It was more appropriate to say that it was some incoherent ravings in a chaotic brain. These manuscripts could no longer be read.
Heti also noticed this. She continued to copy several pages of such "garbled code" and finally stopped. She flipped through the manuscripts with her Energy-evoking Hand. After confirming that there was nothing valuable below, she stopped her spell.
"What does it say?" Hu Po came over and asked curiously as he looked at the Rubbing Scroll floating in the air. "It looks like a scribble …"
"The ravings of a madman." Gwen frowned. The words on the scroll made him deeply uneasy, but he still roughly explained. "… It sounds like something left behind by a person who was abandoned here in the process of gradually going crazy."
After hearing the meaning of those words, everyone present couldn't help but feel a strange chill run down their spines. Although those were just crazy words, for some reason, those words seemed to have a special power that emitted a terrifying aura.
"I … I don't like these things anymore …" Amber had goosebumps all over her body. She could not help but hide behind Gwen. "This place gives me a very, very bad feeling …"
Gwen was just about to express a similar opinion, but before he could speak, a very soft grumbling sound suddenly came from behind.
It was followed by a series of grumbling sounds.
Everyone immediately pulled out their weapons and turned towards the direction of the sound. And in front of everyone's eyes, one of the cylindrical containers in the middle of the hall suddenly changed!
The originally empty transparent tubular culture tank was filled with liquid out of thin air. A series of bubbles quickly emerged from the surging liquid, and a strange twisted shadow emerged from the bubbles. It was an illusory shadow a second ago, but in the next second, it had solidified into a solid body.
It had a blood-red color, a giant-like body, and an extraordinarily strong aberration, but it had a human-like face. The eyes were closed, but the face was full of pain and madness!
This monster, which seemed to be a mixture of aberration and human, was formed out of thin air, and then began to struggle and began to break through the sealed transparent container. An incredible scene occurred: the completely sealed container suddenly became illusory, and the monster's body became illusory as well. The two quickly merged and penetrated each other, and the monster's body was forced out of the container just like that!
Gwen pulled out his sword and shouted, "Kill it!"
At this moment, the monster had also regained its physical body. The moment it was free, it rushed at the nearest soldier. As it pounced, it let out a muffled roar, "Hungry … Hungry!!"
A few longswords blocked the monster's path from all directions, followed by scorching swords, poisoned daggers, and a series of arcane missiles. Except for the arcane missiles which hit the ground, all the attacks hit the distorted creature solidly.
However, the monster's vitality was frighteningly strong. Even if its limbs were broken and its back, as the weak point of the aberration, was cut by Gwen's sword, it still did not die. It still struggled to get up and pounced at Amber, who happened to be in its line of sight.
After the first stab, Hu Po immediately retreated to the side and prepared to take advantage of the situation. She never thought that she would become the target of the monster. In the end, she screamed in fright, and in the next second, her whole body shrank into the shadows and disappeared.
The monster missed and before it could regain its footing, Byron and Knight seized the opportunity and went forward to stab the enemy through.
The monster, which seemed to be a mixture of human and aberration, fell heavily to the ground, but it did not begin to dissipate like a normal aberration. Instead, it wriggled and gradually recovered, and showed signs of getting up again!
"It's not dead yet?!" Gwen was shocked by this abnormal situation. He immediately went forward to stab the monster, but before he could take action, Amber, who had just hidden in the Shadow Realm, suddenly jumped out of thin air and grabbed his arm in horror. "Gwen! There's … there's something in the Shadow Realm!! "
Gwen had never seen such a frightened look on this fearless half-elf's face. Unlike the exaggerated frightened expressions in the past, Amber was really frightened this time. Gwen even felt that if this place was a little gloomier, the girl would even cry on the spot!
Glancing at the monster, which had once again entered a stalemate with Byron and the rest, Gwen confirmed that the monster, except for its strong vitality, would not suppress Byron and the rest for the time being. He immediately grabbed Amber's arm and said, "Take me in and have a look!"
Amber hesitated for a moment. "But in the Shadow Realm …"
"There's me!"
Amber gritted her teeth and pulled Gwen's arm hard. "Okay!"
That strange sense of imbalance came again. The sound and perception of the real world quickly faded away. Gwen's vision blurred, and he was already pulled into the Shadow Realm by Amber.
This world, which existed parallel to the real world, seemed to always maintain the same brightness, neither dark nor bright. Whether on the surface or in the deep mountain cave, it always maintained a kind of dimness that did not affect the vision.
The first thing Gwen did after entering the Shadow Realm was to look around. Just like the other places in the Shadow Realm, this place was also a reflection of the real world in a somewhat disordered way. The round hall was pale in colour, and around the hall was a circle of surging dark clouds like smoke. In the real world, that was the place where the magic devices were stored. And in the middle of the hall was the "thing" that Amber mentioned.
The original metal base and transparent tubular container were gone, replaced by a pool of black fog in the middle of the room, and blood-red mud that kept spreading out from the black fog.
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