Episode 124 – Ashes (2/2)
There was a thick layer of ash buried underneath the earth Other than ash, there were also soray flakes htest of touch
Curious Luki mused Did the people here use to bury the ashes of their deceased?
His curiosity piqued, Luki turned towards his escort “Hey, could you mon the lawn?”
His companion stared at him dumbfoundedly “You want me to do what??”
Luki hoped that he would find a tombstone or sorass He would be praised for his achieve on it
Unfortunately, even afterthere
It probably got buried under the earth with the passage of tiist, but after years of expeditions, he would be stupid if he didn’t pick up a thing or two
Thus, Luki took soround, hoping that he would be able to feel thelarge-scale Morph spells to feel the surroundings However, he was a healer, and healers used the Morph spell to feel the bodies of their patients The precision of his sensing ability was higher than anyone else in the group It’s just that doing a se, less precise one Thus their scout was still better when it ca
After the spell had been co, long tiround and even reached the bottoan, yet, he couldn’t feel anything that could possibly be a tombstone or a monument
Perhaps the ancient civilization had a custo the ashes of their deceased without a to one with nature and all that?
Luki rubbed his chin in thought and decided to Morph the upper layer of earth into a wall around the area to reveal the ash underneath Soon, what greeted his eyes was a dense circular layer of ash the size of an average bedrooreen eyes narrowed If they siraveyard, ould the distribution of ash be circular? Without a monument, hoould they even knohere to bury the ash? Unless of all of it was buried at once?
Perhaps they had a giant pyre and buried the reon probably burped here” Luki’s companion offered his opinion
Luki looked at the
“If that’s the case, we should leave quickly Dragons can be quite territorial” A familiar voice floated over to reveal another cootten overwhelmed with pity for the comrade who had been forced to carry around plants, and thus decided to coaze to the ashes, deep in thought Fire dragons did have a bad habit of setting things on fire They are also known for burying on buried the remains of his activities But…when had Luki ever simply accepted the most reasonable and likely answer?
“If the ash had been buried here for a long time, it would have been slowly dispersed and mixed with the soil Yet there is still sohis coful look “Do you knohat that means?”
“Uh…that we should warn the rest about a potential fire dragon threat?”
Luki sighed sadly, ination of his coe for it to be the ree quantity of matter and buried the ashes here within the last 20 years”
When Nelaira returned to their ca conversation between her coon took a dus were hot and burned the adjacent foliage”
“There is too e leave sohe burned down half the forest coued
“Or perhaps it had a lair here All I’el with a crew cut shrugged his shoulders Luki glared at him and tsked
Aurel Iphis, the husband of the redhead, sighed in resignation “Luki…only you’dNelaira’s approaching figure, Luki’s eyes lit up “Lieutenant, helpthe sue expression on her face
As an expert with dealing with Luki’s overactive iination, she knew that the o of his view So, she decided to take the opposite approach this tiht”
The runted: “Don’t hunored him: “Let’s say that someone indeed buried the remains of a pyre here in the last 20 years The question is, ould so the ashes of a pyre?”
Author Note
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“Maybe they wanted to not leave any traces of their pyre? Perhaps what they did wasn’t right and proper, and they didn’t want others to find out about it?”
“Personally, I wouldn’t go around talking about survivors without concrete evidence if I were you, Luki”
“There ht be survivors! A land we don’t know of!”
But if the war didn’t destroy this place… what did?
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