Who designed this underworld dungeon?.

Chapter 719 Pure and Kind? The Golden Law?
As they walked deeper into the forest, everyone tacitly avoided mentioning what had just happened.

Give Japar some time to calm down, and he will make peace with himself in his heart.

However, they seem to have overestimated the other person's ability to reconcile, or rather, the more indifferent they appear, the more the other person seems...
In short, he looked like he was sulking.

What on earth is this Sword Saint doing? Can you please act like a decent adult?
Leon sighed silently. The more he got to know Japar, the more he discovered the old man's playful side, which almost completely destroyed the respect he once held for him. He could no longer bear to look at Japar's pretentious behavior.

Sigh, let's wait until the teacher is in a better mood before asking him what happened.

Thinking this, Leon ignored Japar, who was walking unsteadily and seemed extremely absent-minded, and turned to think about where he had seen a similar stone tablet earlier.

I felt like I saw a lot of things during the escape process, so why can't I find them now?

Come to think of it, Leon was the first person to discover the entrance to the Dark Realm, but he hasn't gone to see it yet.

During his adventure just now, he was repeatedly attacked by a combined attack team composed of the Ancestral Spirits and various wild beasts. Apart from the area near the Blessing, he would be chased and beaten as soon as he entered any other place.

He named this place the Ancestral Forest because the hunter's manual refers to those burly, horned people as the Ancestral People, so that's how he named it.

The Ancestral Spirits had clearly become more ferocious, wandering aimlessly through the forest, almost always accompanied by wild beasts.

Generally speaking, even in the Sien Dungeon where the map and routes frequently change, the monsters' behavior over a period of time is roughly predictable. Experienced adventurers can improve their survival rate by summarizing these monster behavior patterns.

However, what adventurers fear most is that the monsters' behavior patterns will be disrupted, which will greatly increase the uncertainty during the adventure.

There are many ways to avoid this situation, such as disabling explosive magic with unusual sound and light effects, and prohibiting people from wandering aimlessly apart from their team.

Upon realizing this, Leon understood the reason for the raging nature of the Ancestral Spirits.

Because Maru and the others were scattered and running around in the forest, it naturally caused the nearby monsters to become agitated.

Thinking of this, he immediately returned to the vicinity of the blessing and simply rested on the spot. After a short while, he saw the resurrected people one after another.

If I had known, I would have waited for the blessing earlier, so I wouldn't have had to go out and suffer.

They gathered together to exchange information about the monsters they had seen, the stone tablet they had previously discovered, and the enormous corpse of the ancestral spirit.

Just as they were chatting and about to set off to continue their adventure, Japal appeared.

Leon intended to go up and say hello, but the other person looked utterly dejected and was muttering to himself in a strange way.

After hesitating for a moment, he missed the best opportunity to say hello, which resulted in what just happened.

Japal seemed to still be bothered by their silent spying, and was also distracted by the double blow of being seen by his apprentice during his madness and being killed by the imitation teardrop.

"Whoosh!"

A spirit arrow suddenly shot out from the forest and hit Japal squarely in the forehead, causing him to fall backward and sprawl to the ground.

"teacher!!!"

Leon never imagined that the scene of being shot in the head by an arrow would happen to the famous Sword Saint!
By the time they rushed over and killed the ancestral spirits who had launched the attack, and hurried to heal Japar, he sat up with an arrow longer than his arm stuck in his forehead, and said nonchalantly:

"I'm fine, this is good. Pain can actually help me stay alert."

"Whatever makes you happy."

So Leon watched as Japar walked along with the Ghost Arrow stuck in his head.

The arrow was so long that it would tremble every time Japar took a step. It looked very elastic and must have been made of good materials.

The scene before us is truly unbearable to look at.

Fortunately, after walking a few more steps, people discovered a new stone tablet.

As the brazier beneath the stone tablet was lit, magical runes flashed by:

The seal somewhere has been partially broken.

As the words flashed by and disappeared, the reliefs on the stone tablet, which had been weathered beyond recognition, suddenly became clearly visible.

They were some abstract little figures, and some with horns, each holding a weapon, working together to fight off the shooting stars falling from the sky.

The ancestral spirits were our companions, fighting alongside us against that supreme will. But we failed.

Upon seeing this sentence, Leon immediately imagined some classic scenes.

He had always felt that the architectural style of the Eternal City was not something that these Ancestral Spirits, who were no different from barbarians, could have built. Moreover, the Eternal City was connected to such a large primeval forest, which seemed very strange.

If the people who built the Eternal City and the Ancestral Spirits were originally two separate groups, then many things can be explained.

Otherwise, he simply couldn't imagine that those barbarians, wielding hammers and axes and howling as they chased after him, could actually carve out an eternal city. Maru used the recording stone to capture the scene on the stone tablet, keeping a backup for everyone to prevent the footage from being lost.

We should continue exploring deeper into the forest. Although Japal is a bit out of it right now, he still has basic strength. We can't just focus on the fact that he was shot in the head by an arrow.

With his protection, Leon and his group explored more smoothly. Even when they encountered attacks from the beast horde, they were able to quickly organize a counterattack on the spot, thanks to their previous experience.

Moreover, starting at some point, the shadow of calamity stopped invading, greatly reducing the pressure of adventure.

More and more stone tablets were discovered as the adventure progressed.

The Eternal City has fallen, we have sunk into the earth, but we have not lost yet, we still have.

Those whose beliefs do not belong to the Supreme Will will be persecuted by the Golden Tree.

We will not admit defeat; we await the birth of a king.

Based on the inscriptions on these stone tablets, the group roughly understood what had happened.

It seems like a very serious and normal story.

The Eternal City and the faith of the Ancestral Spirits were destroyed by the apex of the Golden Tree's power, an existence known as the Supreme Will. They sank into the earth and have been lying dormant ever since, seemingly not having given up their resistance.

In general, it means that different faiths are attacking what they consider to be heresy.

Such a thing would be an ordinary occurrence on the surface, so much so that after Leon and his team pieced together the information through their imagination and speculation, they didn't experience much emotional fluctuation.

Even if there were, it seems like that's all.
“I thought the Golden Law was different from other faiths, but it turns out it also punishes heretics. I thought it was very benevolent.” Maru shook her head.

Perhaps because I had only been exposed to news that was positively related to the Golden Law, the contrast was striking when I learned that the other party also shared other beliefs.

“It’s perfectly normal,” Japal commented, finally having the arrow removed from his forehead.

"There must still be stone tablets that we haven't found yet, since the text that appears on the stone tablets still indicates that the seal somewhere has been partially broken."

Leon sat on the ground, deep in thought. They had searched for a long time and finally returned to the Blessing Hall, but they still couldn't find the remaining stone tablets, and they didn't know how many more were missing.

"Everyone must be tired. Why don't we rest here for a bit?"

This statement was unanimously agreed upon by everyone, and just then, a topic that had been deliberately forgotten by everyone was brought up again.

Leon asked with a face full of curiosity, "Teacher, you seemed to have encountered a formidable opponent just now. What was his name? Let us see!"

"you"

Japal looked helpless, but in the end he still opened the Hunter's Handbook.

"Let me tell you, you would never guess who my opponent was. He was incredibly skilled. Even your teacher had to give it his all to hold his own against him."

Even at this point, he still tried to save face with words.

Leon and the others nodded understandingly, but the words he had just said kept replaying in their minds: "I can make up whatever I want, no one will see anyway."

Forget it, let's not call him out on it. We need to be more understanding at times like this.

Japal felt a strange chill run down his spine. He flipped to the very end and saw the latest information about the monster.

If nothing unexpected happens, the words "Eternal King" should be written there.

Then he could use this impressive-sounding name to talk to Leon and the others about his heroic combat skills, expressing his recognition of the Faded Ones' strength and his regret at being outmaneuvered.

"Ok?"

Japar raised a questioning voice.

He suddenly brought the booklet close to his eyes and looked at it over and over again.

The more I looked, the more my shoulders trembled.

"Teacher?" Leon and the others were puzzled.

Why did he react this way?

Because it says so in the Hunter's Handbook.
【The Eternal King's Imitation Tear】

Today, Japar's hands trembled, his heart ached, he...
"Why!"

(End of this chapter)