Chapter 1890 Unanswered Questions

Chapter 1890 Unanswered Questions

Thus, historians lazily marked the history of humanity prior to the previous thousand years as the Empty Ages.

Nobody knew what happened during the Empty Ages more than a thousand years ago because there was no evidence of any kind that they could work with. Rui recalled that his father had told him that the Scrier was a historian immortal sage who sought to uncover the truth of the Empty Ages.

Just what had happened to humanity prior to the previous thousand years of recorded history?

Did the lost cities have anything to do with the Empty Ages? What was their correlation to the Empty Ages and what could be inferred about history from them? Where did the lost cities of the Beast Domain fit in the truth of the world?

"Unfortunately, as I said, not even the brightest minds of humanity have found an answer to these profound questions. Nobody knows the tantalizing truth about this world," Rui quietly concluded his little seminar while they recuperated in a ruin in the lost city of Nagarojin.

"...That's crazy," Kane remarked, immersed in what Rui had told him.

"Yep," Rui nodded.

"If the lost cities are this significant, then shouldn't the Adventurer's Guild take to doing better job of protecting it?" Kane asked, curious.

Rui snorted mirthlessly. "In the Beast Domain? Really? The expenditure is not worth it from the perspective of a commercial organization like the Adventurer's Guild. This is not a revenue-generating asset."

"...Shame."

"If you're worried about precious history being lost to time, then don't be," Rui remarked. "Lost cities are scrupulously scanned, surveyed, and recorded thoroughly, the moment they are discovered, by the Panamic History Association and the Council of Archaelogy and Anthropology," Rui reassured him. "They probably recorded every single detail about the Lost City of Nagarojin decades ago. It's more practical to gather all the information that they would ever need than to try to fight against time vainly and the Beast Domain."

"That feels better," Kane nodded. "Still, it's a shame that these ruins are not being preserved. They're priceless history!"

"Sure, but aren't we slower in the Beast Domain?" Kane raised an eyebrow.

"Only if you try to stray too deep and start running to Senior-

level danger zones more frequently," Rui replied. "As long as we stick to the outskirts where the danger zones are not that much of a threat to Martial Seniors like us."

"Hmmm..." Kane shrugged. "Once we reach there, you're immediately going to work on deducing where the Divine Doctor went on from there, right?"

Rui nodded. "I'm sure that it's one of the three: the Caves of Penance, the Sea of Solitude, and the Forest of Fear. I just need to find clues for what I seek to find."

"Honestly, finding people in the Beast Domain sounds utterly impossible," Kane remarked. "If someone told me that they were going to find not only any random person but someone that is known to be hard to track, in the Beast Domain? I would not believe them. But..."

He turned to Rui. "I know better than to bet against you."

Rui smiled wordlessly. "Let's catch some sleep before the next stretch. It's better to do extended travels than to constantly and frequently take short breaks."

"Alright," Kane yawned. "I'm really sleepy after all that exercise, so I'll eat up a bit and head to sleep."

The two of them quickly consumed some dense food pills that were condensed heavy pills with everything that their body needed before heading to sleep. The two of them needed to ensure that they were at their peaks when they resumed traveling through the Beast Domain.

While traveling, they needed to be extremely alert at the first hint of danger; otherwise, they could be taken down faster than they could react to. With the Beast Domain hampering senses to a certain degree, the importance of alertness was extremely high. One could not be half-asleep when traveling through the Beast Domain. That was a recipe for disaster and asking to get killed. Thus, as unnerving sleeping in the Beast Domain could be, it was even more unnerving and dangerous to be sleepless while traveling through various danger zones.

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