Chapter 632: Underground Treasure
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Benjamin followed the System's guidance and found a body buried underground.
"Be careful when you dig, it feels a little strange."
After hearing that, Benjamin nodded, activated the water element domain, summoned an ice shovel and began digging. Soon, the body that was buried two meters under the ground was dug out.
Miles came up looking confused.
"What did you find?"
Benjamin pointed to the pit that he used magic to dig and said: "A corpse was buried under this ancient battlefield."
When he looked at the pit, he saw a middle-aged man lying quietly inside. The clothing of the corpse was very tidy, it was a primitive animal leather coat. But surprisingly, its degree of decomposition was very low, other than his pale complexion and shriveled skin, his features looked almost like a living human being. Benjamin relied on these features to come to the conclusion that this was a "middle-aged man's corpse".
"This man... how long has he died?" Miles looked at the body, frowned and asked.
"Should be at least millions or thousands of years." Benjamin shook his head and had a disbelieving expression. "There is no sign of disturbance of the nearby soil. This man must have been buried a long time ago."
The freshness of the body was so strong that it was hard for people to not think that it was an undead creature.
However, Miles did not seem to be bothered at all. He smirked, went up to the corpse, took the body out of the pit, and immediately began searching it.
Moments later, he found a piece of sheepskin scroll on his body.
"This is..."
Benjamin arched his brows, but Miles was not interested in the sheepskin scroll, he threw it away and continued searching. Benjamin saw this and wanted to pick up the sheepskin scroll and hold it in his hand.
A corpse that did not decay after thousands and millions of years, he was afraid that this person's identity will not be that simple.
He immediately opened it and read it.
Benjamin was not able to understand the weird hieroglyphic writings on the scroll, but at the end of the scroll, he found something that greatly surprised him.
——A rune that he had never seen before.
Benjamin now had a certain level of understanding towards the runes, he felt a subtle difference between these runes and the others. And since it was recorded in this ancient sheepskin scroll, it was definitely an undiscovered rune.
Looking at the 'I' rune, Benjamin could not help to think about what Cain said in the illusion.
After he drew an "affinity" rune, Cain recognized the rune and made fun of his superficiality with runes. This proved that prehistoric mages must have done extensive researches on runes. And now, he found some relative clues on a corpse again, which verified what Cain said.
——Mages had always been good with runes, however, for reasons unknown, this knowledge was lost to time.
Benjamin held the sheepskin scroll, and was suddenly very excited, he felt that he might be able to restore this technique.
"There is nothing." Miles suddenly shook his head and stood up, interrupting Benjamin who was thrilled, "This is just a nameless nobody, and his body was being preserved by some sort of power. There must be something else hidden in this battlefield..."
Then, he turned around again and started searching in the other corners of the valley.
Benjamin saw this and could not help but shook his head.
If his body was so well preserved, how could he be a 'nobody'? Moreover, he had a sheepskin scroll filled with runes on him, the owner of this body should not be a low-rank mage.
In his opinion, the so-called God's abandoned valley was nothing but a desolated ancient battlefield. It was filled with ghostly yet weird existences, and it was not a place for treasures.
He better leave as soon as possible, the people from the church also came, who knows if they will come to this area? In short, the situation was too complicated.
There should not be anything else here.
However, Benjamin's idea was being rejected shortly. Soon, the System spoke again and told him that they found something underground.
"There are many more non-decayed corpses buried deeper underground, try digging them out."
Benjamin was speechless.
Okay then...
Let's dig it up then. Although he was somewhat surprised, but if there were more dead bodies underground, perhaps he could find more information related to the study of runes.
It went along the pit that they dug out just now and continued to dig deeper. The bodies buried here was very strange, it seemed like they were all concentrated in a certain area. That area was very deep under, and the System said that it detected an unknown source of energy.
This made Benjamin a little surprised.
A strange source of energy... Could it really be treasures hidden underground this valley?
After half an hour of digging, the pit was getting deeper. Dead bodies constantly appearing from the pit, there were men and women, but without exception, the degree of decay of their bodies was extremely low. Benjamin moved their bodies out of the pit using water vapors and piled them aside so that Miles could slowly search them.
Whereas he himself was digging dedicatedly to find the "strange source of energy" that the system said.
Eventually, the ice shovel removed a thin layer of soil and hit a hard object which made a crisp sound. Benjamin realized that they found it!
He carefully controlled the ice shovel to sweep away the soil on top to reveal the strange object buried here.
It was a weird broken sword.
Not knowing how many years it was buried here, only the handle of the sword and less than a few centimeters of the blade was left, the broken sword was covered with soil and rust, it looked very ordinary. However, Benjamin immediately recalled the church's version of origin —— the first generation pope dug out fragments of the holy sword under the soil of the brother's battlefield.
Was this the other part of the holy sword?
Benjamin was not disappointed with its ordinary appearance because he felt a touch of weird force around it.
"Is... is it spiritual energy?"
After sensing it for a while, he and the System came to this conclusion.
The dagger contained a tremendous amount of spiritual energies and what was even stranger was that these spiritual energies were extremely messy. It was as though the spiritual energies of many people were being tangled and forcibly combined together, which formed such a state.
The broken sword constantly emitted a strange energy fluctuation, such as a mutated spiritual energy spreading its radiation towards its surrounding.
"So... those corpses did not decay because of the sword?" Benjamin scratched his head and asked.
"Maybe."
"How do you use this thing?"
Benjamin was getting a little headache.
He dug out a broken sword which might have a deep origin from the ground, however, he did not know what the use of it was. This obviously cannot be regarded as a magic tool, could it be a... ... holy thing? God's tool? Benjamin did not know how to define it.
While Benjamin was holding the broken sword and was in doubt, Miles turned around, saw the sword in his hand and immediately revealed a different expression.
"Th-that's it!"