Chapter 320 - Venturing Through Dust (2/2)

Since it had the word 'Desecrated' on its name, that meant that the area was actually a large graveyard, with the buildings, pillars, and all that making up a great portion of the mausoleums. Only a scant few of those housed living people in the past, where all of the people who tended to the graveyards lived in. Naturally, these mausoleums were ransacked by grave robbers in the past, giving it the name it currently had. If not for that, then it might have been called the Ruined Terran Graveyard, or the Terran Graveyard Ruins.

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By the time Argentum had reached the central area of the Desecrated Terran Ruins, the sun was already around half an hour to setting down. Nevertheless, since there was still light, Argentum could not help but feel proud as he looked at the large building in front of him. To be honest, it would be more accurate to call this place a large and empty mausoleum as it was devoid of furniture. On top of that, it was the only building in the area to remain standing, even after everything that happened, which caused the other mausoleum to turn into ruins.

Of course, Argentum didn't mind that as he commanded the system to bring out all of the femur bones he had collected from the skeletons he came across. Unsurprisingly, a cacophony of sounds where bone hit bone resounded throughout the area, only stopping when the pile of bones in front of him had reached a height where it could reach his kneecaps…if he had them anyway.

”141 femur bones…” Argentum muttered to himself, recalling the odd one out that only had one femur bone instead of two. Soon after, he went ahead and got to work as he grabbed a small portion of the femur bones he collected before dropping it inside the mausoleum. He then rearranged the bones into a small circle while 5 femur bones were arranged into an asterisk at the very center. While doing so, he tried to recall how the bones were arranged in Aurus' memories as he continued to grab more femur bones from the pile outside, forming more concentric circles around the original circle he made.

Once the bones he had obtained ran out, 5 concentric circles of varying sizes surrounded an asterisk made of femur bones, allowing an aura of satisfaction and seriousness to radiate out of Argentum's body as he then tried to recall what he had to do next in order to officially enter the inheritance.

The truth was, the arrangement of femur bones he just did could be consider as the first key to entering the inheritance. There was a total of 3 keys one needed in order to enter the Desecrated Inheritance, and he had already fulfilled two of them, with the second key being Earth-based skills. As for the final key, it was an incantation that could only be obtained by the fated.

But since Argentum had access to Aurus' memories, he had access to this incantation as he muttered to himself in slight embarrassment, ”Do I really have to say this?”

Letting out a loud sigh to remove all of the embarrassment he was feeling, he then took in a deep breath as he tried to maintain a solemn aura around him. Making sure that he was as composed as he could ever be, he then extended his hands towards the asterisk at the center as he stood outside the concentric circles. Soon after, a faint brown glow could be seen emitting from his palms as he then said in the most solemn tone he could ever muster.

”Oh, supreme being blessed and cursed by both heaven and hell, heed my words as my offering of femur bones shall be the connection guiding me to the truth.”

”Let me bask in your corrupted light, learning of both desecration and ruination as mountains and rivers move with the passing of time.”

”I beseech Lord Calcifas of the Evernorth Desert to please accept my pleas and let me into your heavenly eden.”

”In your name, I solemnly pray…”

”Calcifas the Great, may your bones be unbreakable!”

Whoosh!

After he was finished with his incantation, the femur bones he placed on the inside of mausoleum started to glow a faint purple, which would then change into a faint brown light from time to time. At first, the change between the two colors took some time, but as time went on, the frequency at which they changed became more and more frequent, to the point that the two colors started flickering on the bones at the same time.

Bang!

Eventually, the flickering had reached its limit as all of the femur bones shone of brown and purple light simultaneously, heading towards Argentum's palms, which currently shone with brown light. Using that as the medium, the brown and purple lights soon covered his body as he felt space distorting around his body.

Sensing this, he couldn't help but radiate an aura of astonishment as he muttered to himself, ”It…worked?”

”Haha…it worked! It actually worke—!”

Unfortunately for him, he couldn't finish his last statement as he was then sent to another space.