147 Weird 1 (1/2)
Chapter 147: Weird 1
Celine nodded her head
”Yes,” she said as she bit her lip, as if she was still uncertain.
However as she made up her mind, her expression started to relax.
”Whatever I’ve told you here, please don’t spread it. Regardless if they are your friends or relatives, you mustn’t tell anyone anything. Can you do that?” Celine asked sternly.
Garen and Su Lin both looked a little shocked upon hearing that.
”Is it really that serious?” Garen asked softly.
”Of course,” Celine nodded, both her eyes still looking weirdly serious.
”Alright, no problem,” Su Lin nodded in agreement.
”I also have no issue with it. Alright, now would you please tell us what is the matter?” Garen too felt something was wrong with the way Celine was acting.
”Actually... Duskdune Shura is probably here because of this. The Golden Sword Throne is supposed to be a key, a key whose presence can only denote danger and opportunity.”
Celine started to recount from memory,
”This world of ours is incredibly big, bigger than anyone can ever imagine. Even if a man were to take a modern day jet plane, fill it with infinite amounts of fuel, he will still not be able to fly to the end of the ocean. Therefore sometimes it is possible to find some inexplicable places not previously known to anyone before. Found at random, most of these places tend to have existed for a very long time, and within these ruins: sometimes one would find artifacts from millennia ago, or even phenomena not explainable using conventional logic..”
”Artifacts from millennia ago? So what exactly does this have to do with the Golden Sword Throne? Just tell us already,” Garen frowned.
Celine nodded,”Alright, I’ll skip the unimportant introductions and get down to it. The Golden Sword Throne, is from a mobile ancient ruin that the Ancient Endorian and Nabudas Empire have both explored before. The Golden Sword Throne is actually a relic key retrieved from within the ruin.”
”What is within those ruins?” Garen asked directly.
”The legendary Blood of Secrets, some say it is the key to immortality, others say it gives tremendeous power. Nobody really knows or agrees on its true nature, but one thing is for sure: this item is incredibly valuable,” Celine explained, ”The locations of these ancient ruins are usually very hard to predict and pin-point. The times in which they appear are also not set. If it isn’t for the Golden Sword Throne, it would be next to impossible to open the entrance to the site.”
”What you mean by that is...”
Celine nodded again, ”Exactly, there are all kinds of ancient ruins, and each of their contents are vastly different from the other, it’s as if every ruin contains traces of the existence of a different civilization from the others. However one thing is for sure, each and everyone of them contain their fair shares of dangers and opportunities. Each ancient ruin contains a plethora of items of different values, we call these items ‘Secret Treasures’. The ancient ruin in which the Golden Sword Throne used to reside, was found and explored by the Ancient Endorians a long time ago, only to be explored by the Nabudas Empire shortly after as well. It is believed that the ancient ruins still exist, in fact there is even the possibility that those two great civilizations might have left some souvenirs in there during their time within. But for whatever it is worth, because of their explorations, the Golden Sword Throne became known to be related to the Blood of Secrets. In fact, since then, Ancient Endorian Ruins and the Golden Sword Throne practically became the pronouns for the Blood of Secrets.”
The trio fell silent after, as Garen and Su Lin tried to swallow and digest what Celine just told them.
The bonfire continued to burn, as it slowly got smaller and smaller. The room’s illumination also started to get darker, the stars in the sky outside the window also started to become visible, as if they’d just woken up.
Celine looked at the both of them,
”Well? Do you still plan to leave?”
The both of them were still silent.
”There might be lethal dangers inside the ancient ruins, but there could also be opportunity. Some say that the ancient ruins hold strange weaponry and armors. You might even find mysterious animals in there. Some people even suspect that these ancient ruins are what’s left of a dead civilization,”
Celine added.
Garen stood up, and looked outside.
”Let’s wait till the Slash Brigade gets here. I suspect that Duskdune Shura baited us here for something malicious. The Slash Brigadewill definitely find us here eventually, maybe even the werewolves will find us.”
”Just count the hours, those werewolves have probably already made out our tracks.” Su Lin nodded, ”They might just show up anytime now.”
The trio then fell silent once more. After they finished eating, they started searching the house for some broken furniture to pile up against the windows. This way, the light from the bonfire would not be visible outside. Then they all fell asleep around the bonfire.
Not sure how long after...
BANG
Garen opened his eyes, half awake, he looked at the bonfire in front of him. He thought he had heard something.
BANG.
The bonfire made a small crackle again, small sparks flew up from underneath it. The bonfire was long out, the only light one could make from it was the soft red glow of hot charcoal.
As for Su Lin and Celine: one of them was dead asleep against the wall, while the other had made a small bed out of some stacked clothes on the floor, she too was dead asleep. Her face illuminated a faint red by the embers.
Garen was the only one awake.
He got up quietly, and went around the furniture, where he then stood beside the window and looked down.
Icy cold winds blew from the jungle outside, and with the winds came sounds from far far away.
Garen tried to look faraway, to the presumed source of the sounds.
Beyond the black ocean of trees, there were some specks of yellow light moving about. Now and then, one would be able to make out the weak banging of gunshots and wolves howling.
”Someone’s coming…” Garen frowned, and sprinted back to the bonfire to wake Celine and Su Lin up
”Wake up! Someone is coming, stop sleeping!”
Both already well prepared mentally, Su Lin and Celine darted up awake. Without even saying anything, they both cleared their heads, found their water bottles and took a gulp, then went to the window together.