Chapter 2086. Right Before

2086 2086. Right Before

With mana being blocked, Walker felt that he had his senses dampened. But as they moved up the carved stone stairs, they found themselves ducking under mire and more broken stone. So much of this ruin had been taken by time. Some of the ruins that the party had been to were covered in ornate murals along every wall. This was blank. If it had ever had some of these murals that most races left behind, they had become dust. This was a rough concept to believe. That this race had once been here so long ago that it couldn't even be remembered. No race alive right now, even the ancient races like the vampires, the immortal chasing race, or the angels could recall them. That alone meant that whatever the race was that had been here before the other races and when the ancient monsters were more than at the peak of power, they had also been very powerful. It also meant that they had all left here or been wiped out by something. But since they had constructed these grand temples and cave systems within an entire mountain on an isolated island... Well, it made more sense that they would have been very advanced. Very powerful. They had been capable of traveling through to the elemental planes too. Places that were fraught with danger. To be able to comprehend manas well enough as the world was still properly forming itself, was an astounding feat. but what if it had been deeper than that?

Walker could somewhat believe that whatever the race who had made these ruins were, had been better in many ways. Able to see the universe instead of the world. They had to have been able to see through things better than others. Had a bigger view. If that was the case, then they could have been similar to the echidna. But more than them. Able to peer in to existence as a whole. More than just the system that the world provided. But the overall system of everything. "There it is, these are the mana block herbs. I will mix them with alcohol so that I can throw them and the fumes will evaporate causing the monsters or that damn demon lord to have trouble with their mana. They will breathe it in and start to fail." Remey happily started to pick a few of the oddly pointed leaves from a small herb growing on the stone. They had come out on to a small platform before another set of stone stairs. Many different sections of the ruins could be accessed from these platforms. They were just the main access to the other chambers hidden away within this massive mountain on an island. Unfortunately, exploring this place to discover secrets, if any remained, was not what they had time for. Their focus was going toward the temple that they knew was on the top of the mountain. the place that was most likely to have the demon lord trying to access the elemental planes. "There are more of them here too. It looks like the seeds grew right through the stone. Tougher than you would think." Gil's impressed tone came from the fact that he had not expected such a small plant to be able to dig in to and crack stone. "The forest and nature will take everything over. I thought you would be the one saying that though." Su's slight laugh made her take a deep breath. This was not the time to be teasing one another laughing at all. They were in a dangerous place where they could find themselves around their greatest enemy at any moment. "I would guess that they are growing because they are being exposed to more mana than normal. They look too green, so younger than what they should look like." Remey's comment meant that these herbs might have been influenced by something else. "This place is supposed to be close to the elemental planes, correct brother?" Onyx seemed to understand that there might be some changes in these ruins. "We have caused a lot of things to change lately. It would make sense that we caused these plants to grow as well." Onyx's theory made sense. These seeds could have been dormant for years until the sudden changes in mana oozed through in to the world. The chaotic mana might not have been strong enough to corrupt them, but the manas might have been dense enough to cause them to suddenly begin growing much more than what they had been before. Follow current novels at novelhall.com)

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