Chapter 698: asure not
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The dull and heavy thumping sounds did not stop even though the path had closed behind them. The creatures kept beating on the door trying to pry it open or break it down.
The noises filled the chamber on the other side of the door, keeping the party from relishing the temporary reprieve they had been granted after so long.
"No...more..." one of the panting barbarians that appeared to be the youngest threw his curved blade onto the floor and fell to his knees, "I can't...go on," he mumbled under his breath but everyone could hear him clearly in the silence.
Hao Xuan thought about saying a word or two to the teen to try and lift his spirits but examining the chamber was of a higher priority right now. He walked past the barbarians that had settled down in the short corridor right next to the door and entered the chamber on the other side.
It was a relatively small circular room with a radius of 15 ters.
There were only two things of note here. The first one was what appeared to be a control panel and a chair in the dead center of the room. There was only one chair in front of it that was just a little bigger than what would be needed for a normal human.
Unexpectedly, the chair was made of wood instead of so high-tech material. The control panel was a single glass screen connected to the floor by a tal bench.
The second thing of note was a collection of carvings and engravings etched onto the wall in front of the panel. They were engraved in a semi-circle with a radius of 5 ters.
Other than these two things the chamber was completely devoid of anything, no even another exit leading out of it. Sowhat dispirited Hao Xuan went up to the wall and examined the engravings closely but could not recognize any of them.
There were 24 basic symbols, each one different from the one before. They repeated over and over again in varying sequences and strings, sotis in groups of up to seven or eight and sotis just two.
Two parallel rows together created the semi-circle as a hole.
But while Hao Xuan was busy examining the symbols with excruciating detail, sothing inside him started to change. The cells of the section of the brain that interprets sensory information, mainly the sensory cortex, were forced awake by the visual feedback provided by the symbols.
With a speed that could be seen with the naked eye, a small mass of cells quickly multiplied and created a new growth on the outer edge of his brain.
This sudden and abrupt change brought with it a soul piercing headache that reached even his mind palace, making the entire construct tremble.
"Argh!"
Hao Xuan swiftly looked away and backed up several steps bumping into sothing hard. He turned around to see Burak standing behind him staring at the symbols with a deep frown.
Hao Xuan shook his head forcefully several tis until the headache sowhat lessened in intensity.
He then looked up at Burak who was eyeing the symbols as if he recognized them, "What...do you...see?"
A deep frown furnished the top half of Burak's wide face.
"They are...familiar..." he muttered with a hint of uncertainty.
"From...where?" Hao Xuan asked holding the side of his head that provided so sort of temporary relief.
Burak shook his head, "Can't rember but...I feel like I've seen them before..."
Hao Xuan let out a silent sigh. He got his hopes up for a mont there, expecting too much from the current situation. The loud banging against the door was still going strong and it did not look like it would stop anyti soon.
And since they were locked in here now with the only way out littered with uncountable monstrous creatures, hope was dwindling by the second.
Hao Xuan moved over to the console chalking the current headache up as the sa as the others he got every so often now due to the instability in his physical and spiritual centers.
He pulled out the wooden chair and stood in front of the console that ca up to his waist. There was a single glass screen on the panel, pitch-black in color. It was extrely cold to the touch and Hao Xuan even felt like he was touching ice for a second and he wasn't exactly wrong.
This glass-like material was a gigantic shard of extrely condensed sealed yin Qi that could only be harvested from the heart of a dying sun monts before it turns into a white dwarf.
That is the only ti when the heart of the sun contracts to such a degree that it squeezes out every iota of purified yin qi still left within the core after billions of years.
The entire process has to happen naturally otherwise the yin Qi does not solidify aning, the price and cost of an object like this could not be asured by any standard ans.
It is a treasure amongst treasures sought after even in the furthest reaches of the universe for its nurous applications one of which, is the ability to hold almost an infinite amount of information.
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