"So, this is what it feels to be in the front line. I kind of got jealous that you will be sitting back but then again, it is still better than not telling him sothing that I learned." Peridot stated which Adrian heard.
"The clay soldiers are nothing but fragile pottery, but the alarming thing is the fact that those kids are just normal humans that I failed to protect." A voice from sowhere echoed throughout Adrian's ear.
He got surprised as the voice he heard felt like it is directly said beside his ear. The only explanation that he could surmise from this experience is that a wandering spirit told him sothing. The only problem is that the spirit is not showing itself to him.
[You have entered the Tomb of Kongming.]
Adrian, Peridot and Saru arrived at the inside of the tomb with fifty clay soldiers, but they easily destroyed them. Peridot looked at the loot and it disappointed to see that there is nothing valuable being dropped by the mobs.
"Do you have any idea who this Kongming person is?" Adrian asked as the tombs seed to be connected to heroes of the eastern continent in the past era.
"I do not, and I have not even encountered that na in any of the books on heroes that I have read. Not all heroes are recorded in ledgers or notebooks as so died before their legend could spread while so are erased from the history books." Peridot answered as she knew that not everything is recorded.
People like to say that History is a perfect retelling of the past but that is not true. History is written by the victors. A saying that rings true even to this day as so countries that were conquered by ancient monarchies have their history erased.
In fact, so of them have their history start at the ti where they got conquered by the ancient monarchies. It is a sad but true reality as they will never know what their real history is despite being able to free their country.
"If that is the case then this Kongming fellow must be soone that they tried to or at least want to forget. Sotis being an absolute villain is better than being a hero because they rember you more for the bad things you have done to people." Adrian stated as unspoken heroes are never really discussed but the most notorious people in history are always recorded and talked about.
"That is just sad." Peridot stated.
"It might be sad, but the people of the world would rather rember the worst of the worst than the best of the best. So people could just not bear soone to supersede them when it cos to good deeds as they do not want to feel that they lack as a human being." Adrian added.
"How about you Saru? Do you know of a person nad Kongming? This is his tomb so we might have a better chance of clearing it if we know who he is." Peridot asked.
"Unfortunately, I do not know of a person nad Kongming that is said to be a hero. He might not even be a hero as so tombs seem to be from unknown people of origin. It is just that one of the tombs that we secured a few days earlier is a tomb of a hero.
The tomb of the hero did not have much difference to this tomb. The only reason that we knew that the previous tomb is for a hero is due to the fact that one of the elders rembered her." Saru stated as he recalled the things that he was told about the tombs.
The three could not get any information about the na Kongming which is why they decided to push through. The way back outside is not even known as they were thrown in a place that was barely lit with no exit. They did not even know how they got inside of the tomb as they got swallowed by sothing after Adrian unlocked the code.
"Do you find anything strange?" Peridot once again asked Adrian as she cannot hear the voices of the elental spirits inside the tomb. She could only rely on her own mana to use spells.
"It is strange because it feels like we are inside of a pocket dinsion but not at the sa ti." Adrian stated.
"Can you elaborate please? Not all of us are demons so we do not know what you really feel." Peridot stated.
"Fine then. Demons have this unique sense they have from birth which could differentiate the space they are in. It ans we know instantly if we get trapped inside an area or sothing. The sa feeling goes for other dinsions.
Pocket dinsions feel constricted and tight which ans that it gives us the feeling of bing claustrophobic. Normal dinsions are not too much and feels like a gentle breeze is hitting your skin. Dinsions that are extrely vast gives us the feeling that we are incredibly small." Adrian explained as he gave the explanation of what he is currently feeling.
"So…you are saying that we are trapped inside of a pocket dinsion but not at the sa ti." Peridot asked as she tried wrapping her head around the topic of a demon's sixth sense.
"This tomb feels like it is contracting as I could feel sothing pulsating but the nurous voices that I can hear is making
unable to focus properly to even investigate." Adrian stated as he would be distracted by sothing from the corner of his eye.
"You are hearing voices? I cannot hear anyone. The silence is actually creeping
out which is why I am talking to you." Peridot stated as they continued exploring the tomb. Occasionally, a group of five to ten clay soldiers would attack them but Peridot and Saru could easily destroy them in re seconds.
"At first, the voices were audible but now they are speaking at the sa ti that it is making my head spin. They are not ordinary souls as they could voice out their thoughts albeit in a crazy sort of manner." Adrian stated as he could be seen suddenly jumped back from fright.
"Why did you react like that?" Peridot asked as she could be seen also sowhat disturbed by Adrian's reaction as he never acted this strongly before.
[Your party mber, Equinox, is afflicted by Fear.]
[If he gets more than ten stacks then he will be afflicted by Terror.]
"I heard soone wanting to kill
and they sounded like they were behind ." Adrian replied as he could feel that sothing is not correct. He is being tornted by sothing that even he could not see which should be imposible. His eyes are made to be able to see souls so being unable to see spirits of the dead are a given.
"You were afflicted by a status condition which is why you are hearing things. You already have one stack of fear. You must be careful as they seem to be aiming you particularly since Saru and I are not having the sa problem as you." Peridot stated as she tried using a cleansing spell towards Adrian.
[Cannot purify the status ailnt.]
"What the heck! I cannot even heal that annoying status ailnt that you have. You have to find out if you can use so potions." Peridot stated as Adrian finally noticed that sothing is indeed afflicting him that it makes his worried that he would be more of a burden than soone here to help.
Adrian checked on his status ailnt and found out that he got afflicted by an array. He found it weird as he did not trigger an array from his perspective until he rembered that he woke up from a sleep. He could have been directly transported on top of a trap that induces fear in the long term and it activated without him even knowing.
Adrian then noticed that his senses are being dulled and that strange voices are being heard from everywhere. He then activated his ocular skill to the fullest as he wanted to know if there are more arrays set in place.
Upon using his evil eye, Adrian could not believe what he saw as the whole tomb is actually a culmination of arrays. This Kongming person might actually be soone from the ancient era that is an Array Master.
"If he really is an array master then I hit the jackpot! The whole place is covered by magic circles that utilize the ley lines as a power source." Adrian thought as he could learn more about arrays and the loot might actually be array formations that he could study.
"How is that Jackpot when nothing could be done in dispelling those arrays?! You already lost an arm! Do not tell
that you actually want to lose the other one as well?" Peridot stated.
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