LORD OF THE SKY CITY

Chapter 726: Chapter 689: Skeleton Mural

Due to a reduction in personnel, although Rocky and his team became more cautious than before, their pace sped up significantly, leaving the entrance of the cavern far behind in no time.

By this time, they had completely entered the cavern, which had already become pitch dark. If not for the lighting provided by the Armor, they wouldn’t have been able to see the path at all.

“How was this place formed?”

Being sandwiched in the middle, Dusa followed Rocky and, looking around at the cavern, couldn’t help but ask.

In her eyes, the cavern didn’t seem to be naturally formed, but rather as if it had been bored out by something, yet she found it difficult to imagine what could have such capability.

“My lord, could this be related to Kasin City?”

“I don’t know, but it’s possible.”

Upon hearing this, Rocky, who was cautiously advancing ahead, didn’t turn around, but clearly heard it, “Since Kasin City constructed such an immense area underground to research the Moving Fortress, they might have built similar research centers elsewhere.”

“I think not.”

At this moment, Liliya also spoke: “The purpose of Kasin City building research facilities underground was to construct a moving city. It was only after they reduced the scale of their plans that they changed to constructing a Moving Fortress. They had no reason to build a similar research institute under Red Water Lake. Did they intend to take the entire lake with them?”

“Hmph, who knows, the people of the Land Era had very big imaginations; heaven knows what they were thinking,” Liliya’s words made Rocky laugh, truly amazed.

The people of the Land Era, due to suffering severe attacks from the Demons, had reached the brink of extinction. Under such tremendous pressure, their burst of intelligence and creativity was something the current Sky City simply couldn’t compare with. For instance, Sky City and Void Magic Armor—these two inventions, one nearly a century old and the other about sixty or seventy years old, even the world-stirring Mana Runes were invented during the Land Era. Yet, with so much time passed, had the people in the sky come up with any great inventions?

Obviously not.

More than a hundred years had passed, and despite people being in the sky for so long, no inventions had emerged that could match Sky City or Void Magic Armor. It was uncertain whether this was progress or regression.

“Have you noticed? We haven’t found any bodies for a long time,”

Just as Rocky and his team started to digress further, Chief He Nan timely brought the conversation back on track, raising a very crucial question.

As soon as he mentioned this, Rocky and his team also noticed that since the previous battle ended, they had ventured hundreds of meters deep into the cavern, yet they hadn’t seen a single skeleton along the way.

When they had first entered the cavern, they immediately saw a bizarre skeleton and were attacked by beetles. But now, after walking for so long, they hadn’t seen any skeletons at all, which was quite strange.

It must be considered that the Fireteng Tribe had sent explorers to this cavern more than once before them, although those were decades or even scores of years ago. Since none of the Beastmen who came to explore left the cavern, all their skeletons should have been here.

So it was strange that after such a long time, no skeletons of the Beastmen had been seen—there had been hundreds of them!

“Chief He Nan, you… look!”

Realizing this, Rocky was about to ask He Nan for his opinion, but before he could finish speaking, he saw a skeleton.

However, seeing this skeleton did not reassure Rocky and his team; instead, they sharply inhaled a breath of cold air because the skeleton was embedded in the cave wall!

Following the beam of light cast from the shoulder of the White Demon Armor, they could clearly see the skeletal remains of a Beastman deeply entrenched in the mud of the cave wall, looking as if it had turned into a fossil, eerily bizarre.

“This…”

Seeing this skeleton, Rocky was stunned; he had only one question he wanted to ask: how did this skeleton end up inside the cave wall?

If the Beastman had died leaning against the wall, even if its body had decayed, the skeleton should have been leaning against the wall, not sunken into it.

What… exactly was going on?

It must be said that this cave was thoroughly eerie. Not to mention the secrets hidden by the cave itself, but even the Beastmen who died here were puzzling; the previously discovered Beastman had only left behind a skeleton, but it seemed as if it had been petrified, and now they found a Beastman skeleton deeply sunk into the wall. What exactly happened to the Beastmen who had explored here before, and what did they encounter before they died?

“Rocky, look…”

While Rocky was staring at the Beastman in the wall, Liliya suddenly called out to him, and turning his head, Rocky saw that Liliya, He Nan, and Dusa had already walked ahead of him.

And when he caught up with the three, he was stunned.

He stood behind the trio, staring dumbfounded at the cave wall before them, at a row of Beastman skeletons embedded in the wall!

“So many…”

Looking at the cave wall before him, no, at the row of Beastmen deeply embedded in the wall, Rocky’s mouth fell open, utterly agape.

Earlier they had been discussing why they hadn’t seen any Beastman skeletons, but now, not only had they seen them, but all these Beastmen were embedded in the wall just like the first skeleton, as if their bones had formed a frightful mural.

On closer inspection, Rocky counted a total of eighteen skeletons embedded in the wall, and adding the one they saw earlier made nineteen, plus the first they encountered made exactly twenty.

“This is the team that came here to explore twenty years ago.”

Just as Rocky had finished counting the number of Beastman skeletons, He Nan spoke up, “I remember twenty years ago, the Chief sent a team to explore here, exactly twenty people were dispatched, so if nothing else… it’s these people here.”

Looking at the skeletons embedded in the wall, He Nan spoke slowly.

“It is them…” Hearing He Nan say this, Rocky looked again towards the wall, then quickly changed his expression, “Everyone, be careful!”

As he spoke, Rocky immediately gripped the Magic Fang Scythe tightly, and with his reminder, the others quickly reacted too; He Nan immediately picked up the War Hammer, and Liliya and Dusa also drew their weapons. The four of them instantly formed a tight circle, back to back, warily scanning their surroundings…

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