Vol 7 Chapter 33 (2/2)
Dawn crept forward, wrapped in her enor sword in handShe cut a heroic figure, both beautiful and ie contrast
“Can you tell anything about this place?” She asked
“The architecture is unique and well preservedNot like the ruins we’re used toIt’s more like a city where the people just vanished” He looked around“See the surroundings? Clean, no sign of erosionIf I had to guess this place hasn’t been eA thousand years, less?”
Less than a thousand years? That hardly sounded like a short time!
But Dawn had traveled with Cloudhawk to several other planetsThey all had traces of ancient civilizations but they were little more than rubble – often twenty thousand or more years oldThey’d never coo
She picked around, noting the organized city planning and excellent constructionThere was a slew of buildings, all a little different and probably once holding different functions
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The most common she saas a black spire-like structureThey came in different sizes but their construction was siured they were residential buildings
Large pillars appeared at set intervals, each one several hundred meters tall
Dawn raised her head and looked toward their peakThe jade-like architecture was oddly beaded at the bottom half, and wrapped in roots by the topWhen she looked closer Da that they were connected to the crust overheadThese roots reached down from stone and wrapped themselves around the pillars
They held this cavern up
Cloudha it, too“The overworld is covered in plant life, but those aren’t noryThe trees all gather sunlight and radiation and then siphon it down through this root systee and transfer devices”
Dawn blinked co like it
The world above was covered in trees and other foliage, while below a city once thrivedThe citizens gathered power fro as there was sun and radiation the city had all the energy it needed
These other-worlders… seriously fucking clever
“This is aBut why did they abandon this place? It doesn’t look like they were attackedWhat reason did they have to leave everything behind?”
Cloudhawk didn’t have an answer
What he did see was that this huge city appeared to have had access to liyIt also had a distinct Elysian feel
If it was an Elysian land then it should have been destroyed when society collapsedWhen the natives disappeared it wouldn’t el with every other ruin Cloudhawk had coLet’s find thosepeople then we can share theoriesMaybe they’ve already figured it out” Cloudhawk pulled Godslayer free and held it forwardHe used a couple searching class relics to scan the surroundings“Let’s keep going”
Between the relics and Cloudhawk’s own senses, he was able to look out over a large areaAnything out of the ordinary would capture his attentionA fewlandmark
It was a trapezoidal altar in the center of the cityIt was entirely e from itIt was a special structure, built by Godly or dey
Cloudhawk told Dawn to stay back and remain alertHis body blurred and in the next instant he was standing on the altarThe y poured into hiame to support us!