Skadi, returning to infinity

The hidden door was very dry, and although it was separated from the pool by only one barrier, it felt like two different worlds.

There was no sound.

I twitched my ears, but there was no sound or feeling of wind.

Although I know there's a pool of water and a barrier behind it, it's normal that there's no ventilation.

But there might be other areas with access routes.

Since there's no news right now, we can conclude that even if there is a passage, it's very far from here.

She didn't spread her senses as if she were trying to find a sense of adventure; she only intended to use her five senses to explore the place.

"It has a history of at least a hundred years."

Skadi ran her hand over the man-made passage, feeling the marks. Although she couldn't determine exactly what they were, she had a general idea.

The possible years.

How different was Originium Arts a hundred years ago compared to now?

Skadi was very curious, but as things stood, she wouldn't be able to find out the truth for the time being.

"It's very dry, there's no water."

After walking another fifty meters, the passage became deeper and deeper, and there was nothing left to see around.

Skadi was not afraid at all, and continued to comment on the place.

The entrance is dry, and it remains dry fifty meters away.

Does this mean that the end actually leads to a place without water?

How long will it take to walk like this?

Skadi thought it would only be two or three hundred meters at most, but she ended up walking for half an hour, nearly five kilometers, before she finally reached the end.

Head. p6ny

At the end, there was another rock blocking the way, which made Scardy understand why there was no wind, no moisture, and no sound here.

Since both ends are blocked, naturally there's nothing left.

She shook her head, reached out, and easily pushed away the stone weighing tens of tons.

When the stone was pushed aside, the scene that appeared before her eyes made her eyes widen in surprise.

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Chapter Thirty-Two: Walking Through History

Skadi imagined that the scene she would see would be either magnificent palaces, a splendid court, or a treasure trove filled with gold and silver, or...

It was a weapons storage pavilion filled with weapons.

But she never imagined that this place would actually be a mass grave...

Or, not just 10,000 people, but 100,000, or even 1 million.

At first glance, blue will-o'-the-wisps drifted within the cave.

A chilly, eerie wind blew by, making one's body shiver uncontrollably.

Strange biological sounds could be heard above, and the entire cave was filled with bioluminescent fungi.

Some of these fungi grew on the white bones, some on the grave mounds, and some on the immortal remains.

The countless corpses and skeletons buried here tell others just how fierce a battle once took place here.

"It's not just the people of Yan, but also people of other races."

Skadi gasped, her high boots tightening around her feet again, before she slowly walked down.

This was the first time I had ever seen so many corpses, even though I had seen many worlds of large, real Skadi.

Because of those wars, she often didn't see that many corpses.

The bodies were either cremated on the spot or disposed of after the war.

The only scene comparable to this is probably when countless undead crawl out of the ground and off corpses, walking on the earth.

That was the most terrifying scene Skadi had ever seen, yet compared to what was happening now, it seemed so normal.

Because once you've seen enough living corpses, you'll never find the same silence—the kind of silent, tear-down mass grave that testifies to what happened.

It came in a terrible way.

"Where exactly have we arrived?"

I thought I was there to search for treasure, but I ended up discovering this chilling scene.

Skadi's eyes widened, wanting to know what had happened, but without the information she could obtain, she had no way of analyzing what was going on.

What's going on?

Guess what kind of war took place here.

Skadi walked along a path strewn with bones, where there were some underground creatures, probably insects and rats.

When Skadi got within thirty meters of them, they instantly ran away, not daring to appear in front of her at all.

Even though Skadi didn't show any malice, the pressure exerted by a higher life form on a lower life form was a fear stemming from their life instincts.

Let me see. FF

Skadi was also curious about this question. Walking on it, she could see some weapons and equipment that had not yet decayed or had been destroyed in the war.

"A flag?" If there is one thing that best represents the whole, then the flag must be one of them.

With a flag, people from the same group will gather under the flag and follow it.

Even if a flag falls, as long as the people of these groups are still there, the flag will be raised again.

One falls over, then another one is replaced...

Only when everyone has fallen will the flag truly fall.

Clearly, upon seeing the flag, Skadi had already found a way to confirm the reason for their war.

"Hmm? What kind of pattern is this?"

Skadi looked at the pattern on it. Although it had been greatly corroded, it was still discernible that it resembled a circle with a [something] in the center.

The shape of the pupils.

This doesn't seem to be a symbol of a particular country, but rather a symbol of a certain group.

However, a group cannot gather so many people because their centripetal force is completely different from that of a nation.

So if it's not a country, the most likely explanation is—religion.

Is this a war between religious beliefs?

As soon as Skadi thought of this, her senses spread out, covering a third of the cave.

In her perception, each of the hundreds of thousands of skeletons was entwined with a soul.

They are trapped in this cave, unable to leave; they can only be bound within their own bones like earthbound spirits.

Judging from the appearance of these souls, it can be seen that they encompass almost all the races of the entire continent of Terra.

Aside from Draco, the True Dragon, the Deep Sea Hunter, and Sea Heir, almost everyone else is included.

The souls here, each one gleaming with a dim light, signify that their resentment has reached its peak.

"The war is not over. They were imprisoned here alive during the war, and then subjected to a bloodthirsty spell that made them..."

They killed each other to death.

"Then the other side used their deaths and resentment as sacrifices to some being."

"Their souls are thus forever imprisoned in this place, unable to escape."

"What a vicious scheme, what a cruel sacrifice! The lives of millions have become eternal ghosts, bound here for eternity."

No more children allowed..."

"What kind of malevolent being could possibly require such a sacrifice?"

"Why have I never seen anything like this on Terra before...?"

Skadi pondered, doubting that this was something done by beings on Terra.

After all, the Originium Arts she knew didn't seem to involve the soul level yet.

But she soon realized that she seemed to have been misled.

Apart from the entrance where you first come in, which involves Originium Arts, there's nothing else about Originium Arts anywhere else.

It is important to know that "gods" are indeed beings in this world, and many of them are lurking in secret throughout the continent of Terra.

Some are slacking off and producing terrible films—like in 2016.

Some are autistic artists who stay at home—like Xi.

Some are hardcore pleasure lovers who specialize in instigating conflict and starting wars—like Black Snake.

These gods are ones that one knows or recognizes.

Since gods exist, and there are also those deep-sea creatures that can be called "evil gods," then the existence of evil gods is quite simple.

As for the soul, the Black Serpent is a master at manipulating souls, and the legacy of the Demon King Kazdel also involves the soul...

With so many examples, everything here is perfectly normal.

"The soul, if it is really manipulated, can be terrifying."