The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 585

Chapter 585 Graska Mountain

With the additional light, the details that had been painted on the walls became clear, as well as the fact that the city had most likely not met with a peaceful end.

There were scorched spots on the walls, and some cuts in the stone that Karl had originally mistaken for tooling marks were actually weapon strikes.

That gave the area a very different feeling than simply being abandoned for many years, and the two intruders began to move with a bit more caution as they followed the soul energy towards its source.

The tunnel ended in what looked like a forge district, the furnaces long dormant. However, the buildings were intact, and Karl took the opportunity to look inside a few to see what he could find.

The first was completely bare, nothing but a stone shell, but the second had a forge left in it, covered in magical writing.

"I will need a moment before we move on. I have never seen anything like that before." Karl whispered to Nacht.

[Good call. Brother Hawk will love me for writing these runes down for him. I don't know what they do, but if they're in a forge, they should all be fire related, right?] Remi agreed.

The dragon waited patiently, well aware of the curiosity of humans. Karl was also very young, and he wouldn't be familiar with Dwarven Forge Runes. It wasn't something that they taught in school, and Nacht didn't know if there were any Dwarves left in his nation. Before the thought crossed his mind, he hadn't cared. Who lived in the Golden Dragon Nation was of no concern to him.

The signs of battle had been everywhere in the city as they travelled, but the houses had been carefully vacated, and there were no signs of the destruction that usually came with looting. There were no broken housewares or low-value items, and even the paintings on the walls had been removed and not left damaged or discarded.

Perhaps whatever battle had caused the Dark Iron Dwarves to leave the city was not a losing battle, after all. It might have simply been infeasible for them to continue living here.

Nacht gestured left. "It's that way, through the opening in the stone and further up toward the peak."

Karl followed Nacht through the city once Remi had finished copying all the runes she could see. The ramp spiralled up to another layer of the city, laid out much like the one they had just departed, only this level appeared to be more residential and less industrial. There were also fewer signs of battle here, and more signs of belongings left behind, both in the houses and in carts by the doors.

The soul energy was on this level, and Karl could see it glowing from its source. It wasn't moving, and it wasn't pulsating at all, just a steady glow of immense internal power.

As they approached, Karl saw that the power was coming from a stone sarcophagus, but not one for the Titan Demigod that Prince Corbin had expected to be here. The entire stone box was less than two metres long, though it was on a much larger pedestal, surrounded by stone pillars that were covered in runes and beautiful carvings.

That was when progress became difficult.