The space was much less than everyone had thought. The temple appeared large on the outside, but that had been due to the fact that the walls were thick. A very clear reason for that was the beasts. The ancient elves had fought beasts that the group could not even imagine. There was no telling how many of those beasts had faded from existence over the many years since the ancient elves were here.
Regardless, the sleeping area was sowhat as they expected. The smaller room had stones that were positioned to be made as beds. The only practical thing that would happen when soone was building their ho out of the strongest thing they could find in this jungle.
Regardless, the group could see plenty of dust. These were the remnants of whatever had been the softer parts of bedding. However, it seed that this area was not omitted in the slaughter that happened here.
Burn marks and the sa partially lted stone was everywhere. Places where beast's claws had dug in to the stone before it inevitably had been killed as well. Bone littered the area. So were clearly separated from the dried corpses that had been their tars. A few even had outstretched hands or arms to reach their tar or beast.
"This body looks like it had been asleep when all this happened." a somber tone t everyone's ears as Maria stopped nearby an ancient elf body that was clearly attacked and killed in its bed. It had never had a chance.
However, there were a few things that remained. Small bits of tal and ores. The very sa that Clark had seen in the pyramid itself under the crumbling stone. Ralph was very quick to grab it and put it away. He would experint with it when he had ti.
In his head, he had understood everything that Clark had said about the tal. However, that left him with new ideas. Many blacksmiths would not think about wasting the ti on sothing that might only be used once.
Therefore, when Ralph thought of this, he did not think to throw the idea away. Instead, he thought about doing sothing better. A one use item that would cause devastating damage? Or maybe sothing that would carry a large amount of a certain kind of energy to help a beast recover much faster all at once? The ideas were there, he just had to be able to make sothing like that.
It would take a lot of ti and a lot of effort. Ralph knew he would have to experint with the right materials and the right form. If he wasted so of this tal ore that he could not find anywhere else, then it might break his heart.
"There are so tal pins here." Grace spotted so pins. They were all in a stone bowl nearby one of the larger beds. A clear place for such things to be put. "I bet that these were so pins given to them and they handed them over as a sign of loyalty. We have puns that show what we are affiliated with too." Grace easily understood this.
'Symbol of the eternal forest- ancient
This symbol of a massive tree on magically forged tal is created by ancient elves. It was created to be given to those that followed what was called the will of the eternal forest. The eternal forest being their belief that true nature is in the forests they live in. That a unique realm of eternal and unending forest would be waiting for them to beco one within their next life.
Those that were given this pin were born within a specific ancient elf village which was on the rise many years ago. It is currently the center of all elven societies in their ho world.'
Clark read this from the system analysis and nodded his head. He carefully stored them away while the others moved to look at other things. He was the only one that thought they might co in handy one day. However, he also knew they could be a danger to show off. Especially to certain people.
It would be easy to think that the elves might want them back and that could be a way to garner favor with them. However, it was also a thing that could make so elves angry. Clearly, the elves of nowadays did not know that there had been ancient elves here. Regardless, this was a part of their history, if Clark had a chance to use it, he might. Or he might return it out of good faith.
There was also the slight fear that so of the oldest elves might have read or know so history about exiling their own people. If they sohow knew that and it could shed light on their poor deeds in their distant past… He chose not to think of the repercussions of such a thing. Especially since it was an incredibly small chance of even happening.
"There are no weapons or armors. I bet they were not allowed to keep them when they were exiled here." Ralph seed angry but also a little sad. He had sowhat hoped that he would have found them.
"Anything they had might have been wooden or stone. Like this, it looks like a dagger." Grace pointed out the sharpened stone covered in dust. Whatever they had been attached to had clearly rotted away to dust. Not they were just shards of a tougher stone.
'Rough stone spear tip- common
The rough stone was harder than most other stones around. Therefore, it was cracked and fashioned in to spear tips to be able to fend off the beasts of the jungle. Many of these were forged from the sa stone area as the stones that a temple was made of. This is not the best weapon, but it can assist in basic survival.'
There were about twenty of these along with maybe thirty bodies from what everyone could count. Very few things could be said to be useful here otherwise. Even so, Jerold and Brad gathered what they could. Even the most useless thing could save their lives at the opportune mont.
"There are seeds?" Maria and Grace managed to find cracked and broken jars. They had seeds in them. Most of the group expected them to be empty and once carrying water. But as Clark used the analysis from the system, he was surprised. These were not drunken grape seeds. Or at least they could have been but they had changed.
'Mutated drunken grape seed- ultra rare
The mutated drunken grape is a plant that is known to produce multiple dangerous poisons. The toxicity of the alcohol made from them could even cause a dwarf to beco extrely drunk. However, it is the sap that naturally gathers on the leaves that is the greatest danger.
Much like today's poison ivy, it causes welts and itching. However, it is also a beast attractant. It will cause many beasts that live around plants and forests to beco wild. It causes their hormones to go out of control. This causes beast tides and even attracts slumbering beasts.
These mutated drunken grapes were known to the elves as plague grapes because of these effects. So people would go out of their way to discern which mutated grape seeds stood out so they could destroy them. However, others gathered them to cause chaos.'
"Those are mutated drunken grapes. Also known as plague grapes. Their leaves drop sap that will cause beasts to go wild. It makes their hormones act up and that sends them in to a frenzy. Powerful and weak beasts are drawn to the sll of that sap. It also will make you have a rash if you touch it." Clark shared this and Ella casually used one hand to write it down.
"Then it is a way to cause beasts to go wild in a controlled manner. You don't believe that this was a pan for revenge. Mutated drunken grapes?" Ella saw in Clark's eyes that her theory was surely correct. It ant that the ancient exiled elves were going to use these to destroy their enemies when they returned ho.
"I don't think either side was right. Cruelty only created more cruelty. Those ancient elves were just lucky that these ones did not co ho." hearing Brad put it out in the air for everyone to hear stopped them all. Their thoughts on what struggles could cause this.
"We still haven't seen the body of the beast that caused this. There are no drag marks up here. But we know there were so heading down to the main area. We should investigate." Jerold had an edge in his voice. Sothing was bothering him. A gut feeling that was telling him there might be more to all of this than what they knew now.
"No matter what's down there, we can handle it. But worst case, we run." Clark did not feel bad saying this. He knew their lives were worth more than anything else to him now.
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