Into the Forest Depths(2)
I was checking the images sent by the Evil Eyes and moving ahead, when I noticed sothing strange in the images.
“Hmm…?”
“Kuu?”
“No…I saw sothing strange in the Evil Eye. I can’t tell from the image alone, I need to go take a look.”
“Kuu.”
Hearing Rir’s response, we continued onward.
We went on a little detour, crossing a river, and arrived at a place where we could see it clearly.
“There it is!”
There it was, a rock.
Of course, it was not just a rock.
It was a rock shaped like a pyramid, which could not have been ford by nature alone.
…Oh, no, it only sowhat resembled a pyramid.
As I got closer, I realized that it seed to be half buried in the ground, and from the shape of the exposed part, I guessed that it used to be rectangular.
Perhaps it might be a collapsed pillar.
It seed to have been weathered over a long period of ti, and although it was very faint and difficult to discern, so kind of pattern or lettering could be seen carved on the surface.
No doubt, it was an artifact.
“Wow…even the monsters of this forest couldn’t make sothing like this, so there must have been a civilization in this forest a long ti ago. Or maybe the dragon race used to live in this area?”
My neighbors, the dragon race, were indigenous to the Demon Forest.
They seed to have lived in this forest for quite a long ti, and their ho was not far from here – several tens of kiloters away, at least – so it could be possible.
However, the size of the letters carved on this rock was not the size used by the Dragon race.
Could it be that there was a human settlent in these forests?
Then I realized that my imagination was wrong.
In ancient tis, it would not have been an impossible thought if a civilization did exist in this forest, but it was also notable that they may not be humans because this forest was not a place that current humans could live in.
I understood that for myself.
Did the ancient humans have more power than I did, and were they capable of competing with the monsters in the forest?
Or were the monsters of this forest not so powerful when that civilization existed?
However, it was said that this forest had always been a place of magic, and was far more ancient than even the long-lived dragon race.
So how old was the civilization that supposedly existed here?
“…This is getting interesting. Okay, Enne, Rir, let’s change our goal. I was going to just explore the west area, but I’m going to look around and see if I can find any more traces of this civilization.”
[…the beginning of an adventure. I’m getting very excited]]
“Kuu!”
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So we started searching around the area, focusing on where we found the pillar…
“I don’t see anything.”
[…no trace?]
“Kuu.”
As I thought when I saw the weathered condition of the pillar-like objects, it seed that the civilization that was supposed to have existed here was really ancient, and unfortunately, I couldn’t find any other traces left behind.
Although I had increased the number of Evil Eyes and had been checking a wider area in more detail…I had not found anything that looked like a relic or a clue.
After searching for a while, we had no choice but to stop for a short break since there were no results.
“Kuu?”
[…hmm, it’s okay. Adventures are steep and require perseverance. This is within the scope of hardship.]
“Are you tired?” Rir worried about Enne and ‘asked’ in a cry, to which Enne replied with a spirited, yet still motivated, “Nn”.
“…”
Beside this exchange, I was staring at the map that I had opened.
“The pillar was found here. The Demon Forest is not structured in centric rings, as the concentration of magical elents differs from east to west, north to south, and south to north… but well, since the west area is the place with the most concentration of magic elents, it can be assud that the West Area is the central point of of the Demon Forest.”
Well… it was a simple assumption, but I guess there must be a reason that caused the west area to beco this concentrated which I was now checking on the map that could lead to so clues.
“…this area. Okay, Rir, Enne, let’s go this way next.”
Narrowing down our search, we resud.
…Even though I narrowed down the area, the Demon Forest was so vast that I could probably spend a whole day exploring it.
The bottleneck was the monsters.
The ti spent avoiding them was wasted ti.
Although it was a necessary effort, since it was far better than having to fight them…
At the foot of the mountain.
Hidden by dense trees, we couldn’t see much, but… there was sothing there.
–Bingo?
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