Chapter 108 Mysterious Paintings (Part One)
"Elsa, what did you see?" Darren asked. He had tried to use his mind to explore the pce, but he
didn''t find anything.
Staring at the expanse of darkness with a nk expression on her face, Elsa blinked, her eyes
quivered nervously. After she snapped out of her brief trance, she finally replied, "I saw a guy over
there. He was wearing a ck robe. When I tried to watch clearly, he suddenly made a slight
movement. But it''s totally dark in there, so I am not sure if my eyes have just deceived me." Darren
went silent for a moment.
"Maybe…" he started. He cut himself off and looked away.
When he looked up, he found that numerous ck chains were inteced on the ceiling. Now that it
was called forbidden area, he felt that it might be far too risky to walk into it as it might be hard for them
to get out again. They were facing an extremely dangerous situation, and he needed to think things
through with caution.
"Elsa, you should just stay here and wait for me. I will try to find the way out by myself," Darren bravely
insisted.
Since the three sides of the pce were blocked by the walls that were stered with an abundance of
mysterious runes, they could only find a way out from the front of the pce. However, the road at the
front was in total darkness, so he had to believe in himself and to venture out and take the risk for them
both. After looking around and finding nothing strange, Darren decided that they were presently staying
at a rtively safe ce. Since the ce was safe from the danger and violence that threatened them,
he wanted Elsa to stay.
"No," Elsa firmly replied.
"Don''t worry, Elsa. I will be careful," Darren assured her.
"Oh, I''m not worried about you. I''m just afraid of being alone in this gloomy pce. What if I''m in
danger and you''re not by my side?" Elsa coyly protested.
She then grabbed Darren''s arm and strode towards him with an innocent smile on her face.
Darren couldn''t help smiling at Elsa''s antics. His affection for the lovely girl grew with the passing of
time. With a slight shake of his head, "All right," he said, giving in.
They gingerly felt their way along the dark passage, careful not to touch the ck iron chains.
Four hours had passed. As they kept on moving forward, numerous stone pirs retreated behind
them. The journey seemed endless and Darren was afraid they might get lost if they continued ahead.
By this point, Darren had be fully aware of the current predicament they were facing.
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"We''repletely lost," Darren announced. "We''re back at the same ce we started in. We didn''t
even move forward at all."
Elsa nodded in agreement. "I''ve already noticed it, but I wasn''t sure whether my spection was right
or not, so I didn''t say anything," she replied.
"If I guessed correctly, we''repletely lost in a maze right now. If we don''t find out a way to escape,
we might never find a way out. We might end up using up all our strength and die from insufficient
spiritual energy," she added. Darren nodded his head, agreeing with Elsa.
As Elsa nced away from Darren, something suddenly caught her eyes. "Darren, look! There''s
something on the stone pirs and the walls!" she eagerly eximed, as she pointed behind him.
Looking at the direction where Elsa was pointing at, Darren noticed that something was partially
covered with dust and dirt. "Great eye, Elsa! If you hadn''t told me, I wouldn''t notice it at all," he said as
he turned to praise her. "It may have something to do with the maze. Hopefully, it could help us figure
out the problem."
And so, they changed their direction and walked towards the huge stone pirs.
As they reached a stone pir, Darren stretched his hand forward and aimed towards it. The power that
emitted from his hand instantly blew away all the dust and dirt that had built up on the pir, and the
stone finally revealed its real identity.
They found various ancient patterns carved onto it.
Darren then began to dust out the other stone pirs and the walls, stripping them off of all the dirt and
grime, just as he did with the first one.
"Elsa, look. The same patterns keep emerging again and again when I move further forward. It could
probably mean that we''re going in the wrong direction and will stay stuck in the same ce," he
hypothesized. Darren was absolutely certain that if they kept on moving forward, all their efforts would
be in vain.
"Smart," Elsa agreed. "So, what should we do now?"
Darren didn''t reply. Instead, he started observing those mysterious patterns on the first stone pir. He
wanted to figure out the hidden meaning of the patterns and get away from the pce as soon as
possible.
He soon realized that they were paintings realistically depicting the grand wars. Human beings and
various strange creatures were painted on them.
Since the paintings were enormous and there was an innumerable amount of them, it was too
mundane for the human mind toprehend those paintings. Even though Darren was super talented,
it still took him three days topletely understand them. Elsa also did not just goof around. She went
down to business as she read all the patterns and tried deciphering them with Darren.
"Well… What do you think, Darren?"
Elsa prodded at Darren after going through all the patterns and paintings.
"From what we''ve gathered, the war started with an unknown mysterious creature. It triggered the start
of a war thatsted for over tens of thousands of years. Also ording to the patterns, people who got
involved in the war were exceptionally strong and only a few people were able to match their power at
that time. Those people had died in the war and that whole affair was now in the dim and distant past,
and still, not many men have achieved the same greatness in talents as they had," he slowly
enumerated.