Chapter 572: An Ancient Town Built in the Mountains
"It's really scary!"
Feeling the restlessness in his heart, Kira secretly clicked his tongue, "It's just like an Internet cafe karaoke bar that lures minors in to take a look..."
"Could it be that some great demon was sealed away, so the people here moved away?"
Kira once again fell into fixed thinking, guessing that there might be a big devil who wanted to destroy the world. Maybe it was the kind . It could be a demon, an evil god, a dragon, or an unknown race.
【Follow the guidance of your heart...follow...】
"Wait! Anyway, we have already waited for seven days, so it doesn't matter if we wait for a little longer."
To be on the safe side, Kira felt that he should first survey the surroundings to see if there was any useful information. At least he should know where this place is, who lived here, what legends there were, what books were left behind, and so on.
So a day passed.
“Huh… I’m so tired!”
The town was not small, at least a quarter of the size of Magnolia. Kira was alone, so he had to be careful and meticulous in his actions. Naturally, the search was slow, and he had only completed more than half of the work by dark.
"We'll do the rest tomorrow. Now eat and sleep!"
Kira chose the top floor of a high-rise building, where the view was wide and the air was fresh, so he could respond in time no matter what happened.
"Speaking of which... although this town is old, the architectural design is not old-fashioned at all! It is an open-air design, but there is no water accumulation on the ground, and there is not even a stinking ditch. Its drainage system must be very good!"
Not only the drainage system, the ventilation system is also very good. There are also green plants scattered everywhere. Even though no one has taken care of them for who knows how long, they are still tenaciously alive. It's simply a miracle.
After using magic to chop some branches to make a fire, Kira roasted the ingredients that he had stored in the valley over the past few days while recalling today's harvest.
The people who originally lived here mostly used stone and wood as furniture, and occasionally saw hemp ropes and straw ropes, but rarely cloth. This shows that they existed for a long time, after all, there was such a thing as "cloth" at least four hundred years ago.
There were no bones exposed in the wild, and the surrounding buildings were not obviously damaged, but aged naturally, so it can be inferred that the tribe was not wiped out by invasion by foreign forces or a virus outbreak;
There was no phenomenon of daily necessities being thrown around or placed randomly, and the number of items stored and put away in the shelves and cabinets was obviously less than the living facilities for the population, indicating that the place was in a state of order when the people were gone...
"So... is it a large-scale migration?"
"But since this town is built in the valley, it means that the people in the town are probably living a self-sufficient and secluded life, right? Why would they want to go out?"
"Either the production here can no longer provide enough food and other daily necessities for the population at that time; or something threatens their safety..."
Kira couldn't help but think of the thing that called him again: "Could it be because of that thing...?"
[It’s me! It’s me! It’s me! ! ! ]
“Thump thump thump thump…safety sleeping bag!!”
Kira jumped up and took out a simple sleeping bag from his personal space like Doraemon. Then he quickly opened it, got in, zipped it up, and covered himself with the quilt in one go.
Never mind, let’s talk about it tomorrow!
Three seconds later, the sound of Kira's steady breathing was heard in the air .
【……】
The next day was another clear blue day.
After cleaning up, Kira finally arrived at the place that had been guiding him there.
"Noisy, noisy... I don't believe there is anything good here!"
The red hair had grown a little longer after not being taken care of for a long time, and the morning grumpiness made Kira look a little more lazy. His sky-blue eyes, which were originally as clear as gems, drooped dully, making him look like a worker who slept until noon on the weekend.
Kira walked into a temple-like place in the town with a dull look.
“That guidance comes from here!”
The ancient ruins are mottled at first glance, and are filled with traces left over from the passage of time.
The stone pillars, stone walls, stone platforms, everything would turn to gray at a visible level with the slightest touch. The air was filled with a faint musty smell, which was the smell left by time on the building. It was a bit unpleasant, but acceptable.
Following the guidance of his heart and basic common sense, Kira soon came to a large palace. The decoration inside the palace was more complicated than the outside. The walls were covered with various ancient stone carvings and stone paintings, as if telling everyone who walked in about a certain history that had happened here.
"This should be the place where something is going to happen next!" Kira walked in, muttering to himself.
There is a human-shaped stone statue enshrined in the hall. It is impossible to tell whether it is a man or a woman. His messy hair is neither long nor short and covers his face, leaving only one eye exposed. He looks extremely arrogant and powerful. His two or three meter tall body is covered with cracks from top to bottom, as if engraved with a mysterious magic circle, or like a lava man walking out of a volcano.
That was what called to Kira.
"The image of this stone statue... is a little familiar! It seems that it was also like this when the Princess of War received the Soul of Time!"
I filtered the memories in my mind one by one, and finally they froze on the scene in the comics, the scene of Tokigami Senki VS the Sky Twin Girls.
Kira suddenly had an idea and made a guess: "Could it be that this is the ruins of Mildion, the city of time where the God of Time is worshipped?!"
"How can a place like this be found so easily? That's not very scientific !"
But considering the call to himself, Kira was relieved again, "It's not scientific, but it's magic!"
"So? Why did you call me here?"
【See below! 】
The sound rang out again, this time it was closer. Kira could feel it coming from the stone statue in front of him.
"under?"
Kira walked in and found that there was a tablet on the stone base under the statue. Normally, the tablet should record its identity and life experience, or the legends it left behind.
“Ah! This kind of text again!! I can’t understand it again… Eh?! Wait! I think I can understand it?!”
Kira had never specifically studied this kind of text, but he could indeed understand some of it. According to his guess, it should be like the text games, where one needs to reach a certain level of understanding before being able to learn skills.
Three minutes later, Kira finished interpreting the translation with a frown on his face.
Just as he had thought before, this was the city known as the 'City of Time' long ago, Mildion, and the stone sculpture enshrined in front of him was the god named Chronos who controlled the power of time.
According to the records on the stone tablet, this descendant is also a very talented magician who can borrow some of Chronos's power and use time-type magic.
But this magic genius was too young and could not resist temptation. Not only did he abuse magic to peek into the future, he also did some indescribable and over-advanced actions in that era.
What exactly he did was not written on the stone tablet, but because of this incident, the magic genius was cursed by the God of Time and exiled to the mysterious river of time. His clansmen were also punished to varying degrees. The serious ones died directly, while the less serious ones were plagued by diseases, and the magic talent of their descendants in the time attribute was greatly reduced.
The surviving tribesmen built a stone tablet in front of the stone statue dedicated to Chronos, the god of time, to record this incident and warn future generations not to make the same mistake again.
As to when and why these people left the mountains, there is no record of this, and it is possible that there is no connection between the two.
"Hmmmm... 'The Curse of the God of Time' means exile to the long river of time? That's a pretty interesting setting!"
"But what kind of exile is this? What's wrong with you? Why did you call me here?"
【I am the cursed one! 】
Kira's eyes lit up: "Oh?! You are that loser?! I thought you were going to lie that you are the God of Time..."
【……】
After a brief exchange, Kira learned that the cursed genius was not dead. The so-called "exile to the long river of time" could be simply described as continuous reincarnation in this world.
It is not a linear cycle, but a jumping cycle. That is to say, this time may be in X100, the next time may be in X567, and the next time may be in X10.
The important thing is that although it is called reincarnation, the body is still driven by the original consciousness. He can only watch and listen quietly like a bystander. He can neither speak nor do anything. Existence and non-existence are the same.
More importantly, the object of reincarnation is not necessarily a human!
The only time he can communicate with the outside world is when he will have synaesthesia with the stone statues of this ancient capital in a way that "I don't know when the connection will be possible", "I don't know how long the connection will last", and "I don't know what era it will be when the connection is made".
[Coming in sync with this stone statue may be the only mercy I have in this endless cycle of punishment.]
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... You're really pathetic! Even worse than Jeref!"
