Chapter 22: The Ruins
Link hesitated as he looked at the building buried by the dunes, which looked like a tall vaulted roof, with a small part exposed outside the dunes, and most of it buried under the dunes, not knowing how big the part below was.
Njata, however, looked a little excited, cautiously approached the building, and looked through the broken holes, only to see that there were black holes inside, and nothing could be seen clearly.
"Do you want to go back to the tribe and call someone?" Link suggested.
Niata didn't answer, the ancient ruins found in the Wild Bull Desert are likely to be the remains of the ancient Nessreal Empire, the Wild Bull Desert was originally the core of the Nessreal Empire, but it became a desert because of the war with the Ferin Demon Kui. The Manniu Desert is now full of large and small sand dunes, the wind will move the sand dunes, no one knows what is under the seemingly ordinary sand dunes, and sometimes some ancient ruins will be exposed because of the movement of the sand dunes.
Some of the ruins are worthless except stone, while others are filled with the rare metal found in the desert that can be forged into valuable weapons. Some of the ruins can be found with precious ancient magical items and powerful Nessriel magic. But there are also ruins full of deadly traps and undead trapped in the Empire's destruction, which can also be dangerous.
Niata pondered for a while, but still couldn't get rid of the temptation of Nessel's magic to the mage, gritted her teeth and said to Link, "Let's go first and see, and if there is danger, we will withdraw and report to the tribe." โ
Link looked at Niata with some concern, looking at the bottomless holes exposed in the building, and discovering that an ancient ruin was a big deal for a tribe, which could make the tribe thrive or destroy it. Exploring the ruins required a long-term and well-planned plan by the entire tribe, and Link felt that Niata's decision was a bit reckless.
"Why don't we go back and report back to Zacia and get ready to explore?" Link decided it would be better to play it safe.
"It's too close to the tribe, and we'll be targeted by the old priest's men when we go back, and it won't matter to us if we find anything good in the ruins. Niata refused.
Link hesitated for a moment and agreed with Niata's statement that any way to increase his strength should not be given up now.
"Atta" has gradually fallen to the west at this time, the temperature has dropped a lot, Link and the two quickly cleaned their wounds, ate the food they carried to replenish their strength, and cut off some edible parts of the dead sandworms, prepared the spell scroll and spell materials, and walked cautiously towards the building.
Link approached the largest hole and struck the weathered stone walls around him with the back of his knife, and in a moment he knocked a hole in the potholed wall that could be accessed by people.
Under the sunlight, the hollow is not as dark as it looked before, the situation inside the building can be seen at a glance, it can be seen that the place where Link and the two are located is the roof part of a tall building, the sand covers most of the building, the broken bronze bell falls on the sand pile and a downward staircase is on the side of the bell, fortunately not buried by the sand, Link takes the lead in digging into the ruins, and looking back you can see the faded mural on the roof.
"Just this clock will save you from being a herdsman. Seeing that the stairs down were not buried, Niata, who was in a good mood, laughed.
"If I don't have an old priest in me, it's a death to not shepherd a slave. Link returned angrily.
The two of them cautiously walked down the stairs, the scale of this building surprised Link, judging from the situation of the stairs, Link and the two had walked down the stairs of the fifth floor, and still did not reach the bottom, but to the disappointment of the two, the part of the floor that had been walked had either collapsed or been buried by sand, and the two of them could not clean it up at all, and the few stone rooms that could be entered were also empty, and some only had a simple stone table, and they couldn't tell what kind of place this was.
The two of them continued to walk down two floors, the stairs reached the end, the air was a little dull, Link and the two sat on the ground to rest for a while, let the air circulate for a while, and then began to explore the last floor, to the excitement of the two, this time they finally had a harvest in a stone room, two dilapidated structures more than one person tall fell to the ground, one was more or less intact, and the other was badly damaged, and many parts were scattered on the ground.
The two of them squatted on the ground and rummaged through the parts on the ground, there were a lot of precious materials, adamantite gold, turquoise, and a lot of materials that Niata couldn't identify, these things were precious materials for making magic items, although at the current level of Link and the two, they didn't have the ability to make magic items, but it was always good to be prepared.
What made Link and the others collapse was that there was nothing they could do about the intact construct, Link's scimitar didn't even have a white mark on it, and Niata's magic liquid didn't have a powerful destructive power, and both of them had nothing to do with the intact construct, so they could only continue to rummage through the parts on the ground.
In the other enterable stone room, most of the room had collapsed, and the remaining part had a large potion shelf, but unfortunately thousands of years had passed, and the glass bottles had either broken or had been evaporated, leaving only the colored residues inside the glass bottles, which made Niata feel distressed.
Judging from the structure judged by the two before, it is very likely that this is the remains of ancient Nesser, but they can't tell what kind of institution this is, but there are no magic traps and guards until now, so it can be seen that this place is probably safe, but it is a pity that there is no more gain, and finally the two came to the last stone room that can be entered with apprehension.
Link and Nyata were overjoyed to see a white ossified corpse lying on the ground, and there was a large bookcase full of books next to it in addition to the stone table and chairs.
Niata rushed to the bookshelf with a twinkle in her eyes, and after using the zero-level magic "Detection Magic" to make sure that there were no traps, she carefully began to flip through the books on the shelves, while Link walked to the corpse on the ground.
The color of the white bones is perfect yellowish-white, indicating that the place was not buried for a long time after death, and there was still air circulation, and the body was wearing a rotten robe. Link carefully examined the robe with his knife, finding nothing except for a barely recognizable amulet, Link glanced at Niata, who was busy with his work, and carefully took the amulet into his arms.
Just when Link was about to help Niata, a touch of metal reflection reflected in Link's afterglow, but it was a metal strip pressed under the corpse, Link laboriously pulled out, identified it, and recognized that this mottled metal object with rust should be a scroll box, Link laboriously opened it, only to see that there were a few pieces of parchment inside, probably using some special magic, thousands of years have been roughly intact, you can clearly identify the text on it, only to see that the text on it is neatly structured, the paragraphs are clear, and there are many strange charts, but Link doesn't know this kind of text, Link looked at it casually, and walked towards Niataใ
The next moment, Link froze suddenly, he rubbed his eyes, looked carefully at the last piece of parchment, and read it right, Link saw the familiar Chinese.