Chapter 57 The Castle Part 3 (2/2)

The old man asked in a dis io, you have soht choice, i'll take you in asfor an answer from Daniel, the old man disappeared

Daniel found himself back in the hall The doors to the sides had disappeared, and only the door in the middle of the two sets of stairs re the dark corridor at the feet of the flight of stairs

After a good minute, he decided to take a look at the first floor, so he went up the flight of stairs

The moment he reached the first floor, two bluish silhouette appeared on the hall downstairs One was ato his waist and a long spear strapped to his back He also hat looked like a heavy plate arht robe

The er er ht corridor

Back on the first floor, the figure of the hed in disappointment, and disappeared

Daniel decided to follow the younger ht corridor, and entered the door he had seen the younger man disappear into

Inside this roole bed in theelse

The wall on the left of the door was covered in scribbles and doodles which Daniel couldn't understand They didn't seem to be the work of a mad man, so Daniel started to observe theroups, and so, but this very alphabet was unlike any Daniel had glimpsed at

Daniel checked the books inside the old alchee he had found was sis had been written in

He was about to give up, but then, he recognized a slightly variated version of one of the symbols froles, and it joined the following one with an ondulated line, but it still looked sie was ancient and alien to their continent The syn for 'Mana'

Thanks to the help of 'Time is Precious', it took Daniel twenty e He then read the writing in the wall once inal with only a crappy translation as reference The language on the book looked like aon the wall, and to Daniel, it felt like he was translating an ancestor's scripture with the use of a language, whose origin itself originated fro that no historian had The ability to correct his mistakes

He tried to make sense of these symbols, and by process of trial and error, he was able to translate a few symbols per hour After ten hours, he had translated about five percent of the words present in the wall

He could understand words and bits, but the more he read, the more appalled he became

The concepts of sacrifice and consumption appeared over and over in the test And it seeic which then theh a fourth of the test, four edhis head on the corner of the room The nized hier ed round Daniel saw nothing in theinvisible

Theabove his head, then, he opened his mouth and stood still for a fewdrip into hisin the direction of the bed, then, the silhouette disappeared from the room

Daniel walked towards the bed, which was e eround

He went down on his knees, then lifted one side of the sheet and looked under the bed

Underneath the bed, he saw a sed to a child

Slightly nauseous, Daniel got back up on his feet and returned in front of the wall

It took hi the text

The test, was a method of cultivation It was different from spiritual or martial cultivation, as it could be practiced on the side

This method of cultivation described in detail, hoas possible cultivate by absorbing people's ki through direct consumption of their body Ki was part of the body, and in it, it was o detail of this rant the cultivator to absorb one's ki, but also one's life essence

Life and death essences belonged to living beings A human would be born with a certain amount of life essence, which the naturally formed death essence would slowly consume, to the point where life essence would be exhausted, leading to a cultivator's natural death

The amount of life essence that one could absorb from consumption of another person, was very little At best, hours of life fro an entire body

Unfortunately, there were methods to increase the amount of life essence that could be absorbed And that was consu humans with richer life essence Like newborns and children

The idea that millions of participants had stumbled upon this wall in the past thousands of years shocked Daniel beyond belief

He immediately tried to burn the wall, but unfortunately, he was unable to interact with it in any way It was as if what he was trying to burn didn't belong to his own time and space

Daniel left the room, and as he was about to explore further, he saw another silhouette

This silhouette was that of a very oldin front of the door he had just came from In his hand was his unsheathed sword, but it see himself to enter and do what he intended to do

After a good minute, he dropped his sword and fell on his knees His hand reached for his