Now that it was done, I should check out the area around here. After all, the sound stopped around here. I mean it could have stopped because we were fighting or because I reached the place I was supposed to.
If it was the first reason, then there was nothing that I could do but if it was the second reason, then sooner or later I would find out what happened all those days ago.
I hope I can find out what that sound is. No matter how I think, I couldn't understand it. The sound felt like a calling. As I said, it is not a language that I heard and it doesn't qualify as a language with respect to the standard terms at present.
It could be a language but not native to Ragos or simply can't be defined by the standard terms of Ragos.
The standards are based on the languages that were known to the civilized races of Ragos. There could be a new race that is emerging or it could be a dead language that no one speaks anymore and someone or something is using that language.
As long as that thing didn't have anything to do with the disappearance of the merchants and their party, it won't be problematic but I feel that the sound is the reason behind their disappearance.
It is going to be a problem.
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I searched for an hour around the area where I stopped hearing the sound. I was immersed in the fighting and didn't recognize that the sound stopped. So it took a minute to adjust my mind and find the position where that happened.
I found the position quickly but even after searching for an hour, I didn't find anything,
Wait, what is that?
I am standing in front of what appears to be an entrance to a cave.
I cautiously entered the entrance which led me into a big cave. It was a big cave, but what fascinated me was the markings on the cave walls. They are not drawn randomly, though someone of lesser intelligence could say they are random.
They are purposely placed in the spots where they are supposed to do something.
There are a few questions.
What is it?
Whether it would be dangerous?
Thinking by that logic, I shouldn't touch anything in this cave but I need answers and I believe that these answers are found in these markings. Though I am not someone who would act recklessly, I can't be a coward. I need to verify things once in a while. There won't be always someone to check out things for me.
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Huh, nothing happened. I started to touch every marking on the wall that was accessible to me. There are markings that are way out of reach, at the top of the cave.
Except for the markings that I couldn't reach, I touched every marking but nothing happened.
There might be three reasons why nothing happened.
First, the ones that I need to touch could be the ones on the top of the cave.
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Second, they need to be touched in a certain pattern.
Third, it needs something to activate the markings, most likely an energy source.
There is a chance that all three are the reasons why nothing happened. I can only check them one by one.
The first two would take some time and effort, so let's try the third one and see if it works. If it does, it would save me a lot of time and effort.
Let's inject some magic power into this marking.
Whoosh!
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Huh?
Where am I?
This is not the cave that I was a second before. Wait for a second, after I injected some energy into one of the markings, a lot of energy gushed out of the other markings...it looks like it transported me to some place outside of that cave.
The question is, IS this a Secret Realm? A Dungeon? or just a random place on Ragos?