Eight hundred and sixtieth chapters found the black stone
"The maze builders experienced heavy losses from a meteorite fall, and then they thought it was a punishment from God and built an altar to pray for blessings?"
When Viserys saw this last mural, he couldn't help but have such an association in his mind, because it was difficult not to have such an association from the first mural to the present.
However, the content painted on the last mural can't help but make people's hair stand on end.
This is obviously very similar to the scene Viserys is experiencing now. He just saw a scattered giant skeleton from the first floor, and then there were several more on the second floor, and all of a sudden on the third floor.
It has become much denser, and there are even human bones appearing. It can be seen that the human explorers have gone down to the third level at most. They knew that there was a fourth level, but they died here before they could continue going down.
And now Viserys is at the lowest level that countless expeditions have never reached. Judging from the murals carved by these hairy giants, they built the altar here, and it is quite possible that it is here.
In a festival recorded in the mural, all the maze builders suddenly died, which became the last song.
Then Viserys held the torch and shined forward again, but the wall in front was empty and there were no other murals.
It seems that this is indeed the last message these hairy giants left to the world.
"So it seems that the altar is right in front?"
Viserys held the torch and shook the other nearby walls. After discovering that there were no other murals, he turned his gaze to the depth and darkness in the distance.
According to the information provided by the last mural, the altar built by the maze builders is at the deepest level of the fourth floor.
Viserys continued to walk toward the deepest part of the underground maze, and the bones of the maze builders made a clicking sound under his feet.
Because I don’t know how many years have passed, these skeletons are already close to death. It is just because the temperature and humidity in the underground palace are relatively stable and there is no wind and sun that they can barely maintain their shape. However, they immediately turn into powder at the slightest touch.
Kaka——
The only sound of Viserys' footsteps could be heard in the underground palace. He had broken countless bones along the way, and he was constantly lighting the way forward with the torch in his hand.
"arrive."
After an unknown amount of time passed, Viserys finally paused slightly and stood still.
Because at this moment, an ancient altar made of carved boulders similar to the maze outside finally appeared in front of him.
"This is the altar."
Viserys stood there holding the half-burned torch and looked at the altar slightly.
I have to say that compared to the majestic maze above the ground, this altar seemed a bit crude and hasty. For ancient civilized races, their knowledge was relatively lacking and they attributed everything to supernatural powers. Therefore, at that time
The most common thing that civilized races do is to build altars and offer blood sacrifices or even the lives of tribesmen as sacrifices.
It seems that the meteorites that fell from the sky frightened the maze builders, so they hurriedly built altars to offer sacrifices and pray for blessings, praying that the disaster would be over. However, they did not expect that this sacrifice and blessing would directly lead to the destruction of the entire ethnic group.
's demise.
But I don’t know if it was Viserys’s illusion, because the light of the torch became smaller, and it could only dispel the darkness in a circle around him. Therefore, Viserys could not see the entire altar clearly, except for his eyes.
The rest of the place is shrouded in darkness.
Viserys then knelt down and observed carefully. He could see some complicated symbols on these exquisitely carved boulders. The symbols of these maze builders were somewhat similar to ancient languages, but they were not exactly the same.
"Is this... a disaster star?"
"Or a disaster?"
Viserys carefully identified it for a long time but could not recognize it. Although he had learned the ancient language with the giants, he did not recognize the symbols in the ancient language, because even the giants themselves could not write but could only speak.
However, judging from these simple ancient symbols, it seems that these maze builders really have an inexplicable connection with the giants of Westeros.
The silver-haired young man held a torch and squatted in front of the altar to study the ancient characters on it. However, the road he had just arrived on was still pure darkness, without any light, and completely silent, as if there had never been a road.
Same.
Viserys gently stroked the boulder that built the altar with his palm, and his eyes scanned the surrounding darkness. Although he did not show it on his face, when he came near the altar, Viserys's faintly aware discomfort became more intense.
It really seemed as if someone was watching him secretly, and he felt even colder.
Then Viserys turned his head and looked above the altar. Although the light of the torch could not be seen clearly, there seemed to be something vaguely placed on it.
"It should be the unclear black thing on the mural."
Viserys felt slightly vigilant in his heart. Although he looked bold and fearless and broke into the fourth floor of the underground palace alone, in fact he was more cautious than anyone else.
If his guess was correct, this black thing was probably the culprit that led to the destruction of the whole family of maze builders.
Viserys stepped up the steps of the altar. There were seven levels of steps. As he climbed to the highest step, the light from the torch in his hand also allowed him to see clearly the core of the altar.
That piece of black stuff lying there.
"Is this...a black stone?"
When Viserys saw that the thing that the maze builders built the altar to worship was just a black stone, his heart couldn't help but beat slightly.
He didn't react at the first moment, but he remembered it the next second.
He has seen this thing before!
Viserys was outside the Great Wall to the north of the Great Wall, in front of the bottomless pit where the old gods were suppressed. Through the old gods' ability to look back in time, he saw that after he left the Great Wall, the group of white ghosts killed the old gods, and then one of them
The strange ghost walked into the bottomless pit, and then an unknown amount of time passed. The strange ghost walked out of it, with a black stone like this in his hand.
This black stone is different from other black stones, such as those used to build Dragonstone and repair the Great Wall. Its texture is somewhat oily and seems to absorb light, even human gaze.
Viserys is now holding a torch and shining it on this black stone. There is no reflection at all, and all the light seems to have been absorbed by it.