Chapter 1052 - Protective Measures (1/2)

Chapter 1052: Protective Measures

Translator: TransN Editor: TransN “Ha, interesting…” Rother said under her breath.

“What?” Sean looked at her. “What do you mean?”

“I’ll let you know, common people.” Rother grinned. “The ruins of the underground civilization can be seen in many places of the mainland, and Taquila certainly spent a lot of time studying them,” she said, walking up to the mottled column, and then swept the dust off it. “These symbols are not their characters and they have nothing to do with the magic characters the Union once made, either. Keeping in mind the history of the four kingdoms, isn’t that interesting?”

Azima was still confused. Although she understood every word Rother had said, she could not comprehend what the words exactly meant when she put them together. However, she felt relieved as she saw the same confusion on both Marl’s and Knaff’s faces.

Sean revealed a thoughtful look.

“His Majesty once said that in the past, the four kingdoms were only a collection of scattered villages and small towns, located in a small corner of the mainland, and had no real history. If this ruin wasn’t left by the civilizations during the Battle of Divine Will, then it means…”

Sean paused suddenly.

“There were people who used to live here and were unknown to us?”

“We’re not sure about that,” Rother said with great spirit. “No one knows whether the underground civilization could breed any new tribes and create new tongues. We have to enter the ruin to find more information.”

“Lord Sean, there seems to be a stone tablet here,” the soldier, who was examining the stone gate, suddenly shouted. “The words on it are written in our characters.”

Everyone immediately approached the tablet.

A block of granite rested in the weeds. The moss had grown all over it and only one side of the tablet had been sanded by men so that it was easy to be ignored. It took the soldiers a long time to clear it up before the engraved words could be easily made out.

“This is a place cursed by Gods. You’ll die if you enter.”

Knaff gasped as he saw the warning on the tablet.

“Is this the rumored… Temple of the Cursed?” He stepped back and stammered.

Sean and the God’s Punishment Witch glanced at each other. “You know what it is?”

“I just heard it from other people. It happened more than a century ago…” Knaff stared at the black hole and swallowed. “The lord of this area had ordered his men to set up a lot of traps in the Cage Mountain to prevent the Wolfheart people from crossing the mountain. It was said that a team led by a knight came across a heavy rain when they were performing a mission. The rain in the mountain was variable and transient. The knight commanded his men to find shelters and they discovered a strange temple by accident.”

“Oh?” Rother said, raising her eyebrow. “Did they find any treatures in the temple? And the greedy people who stole the treasures were cursed by deities and died a terrible death in the end.”

“You’ve heard that too?” Knaff was surprised.

Rother laughed out. “The nature of common people seems to have stagnated. They’ve played this kind of trick centuries ago and it still worked. I bet it was the lord who started the rumor. He must have wanted the treasures for himself. The poor villagers were just used to prove the existence of the curse and were slaughtered secretly.”