Chapter 333 - : Corpses Under the Lake
Chapter 333: Corpses Under the Lake
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The environment under the lake was completely dark. Angor quickly constructed a hexagonal model in his mind space and triggered it using mana, bringing out a bright sphere inside the Purification Field to illuminate his surroundings.
Level-0 cantrip—Light.
During these two months, he learned many common cantrips, including this one, which he always considered useless before.
This only function of this cantrip was to create light. It wasn’t bright either. It only allowed people to see an area about two or three meters around, like a small torch. But while a torch couldn’t work underwater, Light could.
There was actually an advanced version of it called “Blaze” which could brighten up dozens of meters around its user. It was a level-1 cantrip that required certain knowledge and long-term effort, and Angor didn’t plan to learn it yet.
Using his cantrip, the cold and dull water under the surface finally became a little clearer.
When Angor looked around, he saw all kinds of unknown substances as well as black strings that looked like human hair floating around.
Or… could it be meant to be the villagers’ grave? Did they choose to end their own lives in this way?
Without any answer or exit, he left the water and proceeded to fill up the giant grave outside.
There were too many bodies for his crater, so he asked Toby to slam the ground and make something bigger.
When the bodies were fully buried, Angor found a giant boulder nearby and used Thaw to forge it into a stone monument. He then used Hand of Spell to engrave several lines on it using the universal tongue.
[Here lie a hundred and more folks of a nameless and long-forgotten village. May they find peace in paradise and beyond.
[Monument caretaker: Angor Padt]
With the giant grave completed, he began to consider other options. He thought about digging his own way out, but he pushed that idea aside quickly. After all, he had no idea about the layout of the land around him. Causing a large-scale cave-in would be disastrous.
He suddenly heard bubble-breaking noises from the lake.
There was a vortex on the surface of the water!
What a vortex suggested was so obvious. He quickly called Toby back and dived into the water once again.
When he approached the base of the vortex, he was shocked to see a dark entrance toward deeper down.
This entrance had to have caused the vortex.
“Was this thing here a moment ago?” Angor was confused.
But he couldn’t remember every detail he went through since the lake bed was very dark even with his Light cantrip. All the black substances didn’t help him memorize the landscape at all.
“Maybe I cleared enough debris away, and water pressure slowly breached the cave?” He took a guess. There was nothing else around here, so he couldn’t think about anything in particular.
As for the possibility of a ghost or spirit… He was sure it wasn’t the case since he didn’t sense any of that. A soul of a mortal could not survive very well. And a thousand years had already passed.
When the water returned to being still again, he carefully stepped into the shadowy opening.
An unknown cave, an unknown future. The only thing he could do was to stay extremely cautious.
“You stay alert too, Toby,” Angor warned. But when he turned, he saw Toby displayed a serious attitude unlike any other times before.
“Toby?” he asked again.
Toby signaled using his wings. Tweet, tweet!
“You mean you want to check from outside?” Angor was pretty surprised. Toby was more or less obsessed with cleanliness. Why would the bird ask to go away from the Purification Field and touch the dirty water?