Benjamin followed the system's guidance and found a body buried underground.
"Be careful when you dig it out, it feels a little weird."
Hearing this, Benjamin nodded, expanded the water element field, and commanded the summoned ice drill and ice shovel to start digging. Soon, he dug out the body that was buried about two meters underground.
Miles also came up confused.
"what have you found?"
Benjamin pointed to the deep pit he dug with magic and said, "A corpse buried under this ancient battlefield."
I saw the corpse of a middle-aged man lying quietly in the deep pit. The clothes on the corpse were very complete, and they were very primitive animal skin clothes. But what is surprising is that its degree of corruption is very low. Except for its pale complexion and shriveled skin, its other features are almost the same as those of a living person. It was these features that Benjamin relied on to determine the corpse of a middle-aged man.
"This man...how long has he been dead?" Miles asked as he looked at the body and frowned.
"It must have been tens of thousands of years at least." Benjamin shook his head, showing an incredulous look, "There are no signs of renovation in the nearby soil. This person must have been buried a long time ago."
This kind of extremely fresh corpse makes people think of undead creatures.
However, Miles didn't seem to care at all. He curled his lips, stepped forward, took the body out of the pit, and immediately began to search it.
After a while, he found a parchment scroll from the body.
"This is… "
Benjamin raised his eyebrows, but Miles was not interested in the parchment at all, so he threw it away and then searched for it. When Benjamin saw this, he just picked up the parchment and held it in his hand.
A corpse that has not decayed for thousands of years, this person's identity may not be simple.
He immediately unfolded it and started reading.
There were some weird hieroglyphs written on the parchment that Benjamin couldn't understand, but at the end of the volume, he discovered a figure that surprised him.
—a rune he had never seen before.
Benjamin now has a certain understanding of runes and can feel the subtle differences between them and other words. What was recorded on this ancient sheepskin scroll was definitely a rune that had not yet been discovered.
Looking at this rune, Benjamin couldn't help but think of what Cain said in the dream.
After he drew the "Affinity" rune, Cain recognized the rune and teased him for using the rune in a crude way. This shows that the prehistoric mage actually studied the rune very deeply. And now, he found relevant content on a corpse, which confirmed what Cain said.
-The mage has always been good at using runes, but later, for unknown reasons, this knowledge was lost.
Benjamin was holding this roll of parchment and suddenly became excited, thinking that he might have the possibility to revive this technology.
"Nothing." Miles suddenly shook his head and stood up, interrupting Benjamin's happiness. "This is just an unknown person. The body was preserved due to some kind of power. There must be something buried in this battlefield." Something else… "
As he spoke, he turned around and started searching in other corners of the basin.
When Benjamin saw this, he couldn't help but shook his head.
How could the body be a passerby if it was so well preserved? Moreover, as it carries a parchment with runes recorded on it, this corpse must have been a mage with a high status during his lifetime.
In his opinion, the so-called Valley of the Gods Abandoned is just a desolate ancient battlefield, full of gloomy and strange existences, and is not a desirable treasure place.
It would be better to leave as soon as possible. People from the church have also come in. Who knows if they will come here? In short, the situation here is too complicated.
There should be nothing else here.
However, Benjamin's idea was slapped in the face after a short time. Soon, the system spoke again, telling him that something else had been found underground.
"There are still many such undecomposed corpses buried deeper underground. Try digging them out."
Benjamin was speechless for a moment.
All right…
Just dig. Although it surprised him, if there were more corpses underground, he might also be able to find more research information related to runes.
Just following the hole dug just now, Benjamin continued to dig down. The corpses were buried in a strange way, as they seemed to be concentrated in a certain location. Deep in that location, the system also said that it detected a strange source of energy.
This still surprised Benjamin.
Strange source of energy... Is there really any treasure hidden underground
After digging for about half an hour, the hole under my feet became deeper and deeper. Bodies continued to emerge from the pit, both male and female, but without exception, the degree of decomposition was extremely low. Benjamin used water vapor to transport the corpses out and pile them aside while Miles slowly stripped them of their clothes.
As for himself, he was concentrating on exploring the "strange energy source" that the system called.
Finally, the waving ice shovel dug out a thin layer of soil, and there was a crisp sound of hitting a hard object. Benjamin also immediately realized that they had dug it!
He carefully controlled the ice shovel and scraped away the soil on the side, revealing the strange object buried in it.
It was a weird broken sword.
It was unknown how many years it had been buried. Only the hilt and less than a few centimeters of the blade remained. The broken sword was covered with dust and rust, making it look very ordinary. However, Benjamin immediately thought of the church’s version of the origin story—the first pope dug up fragments of the Holy Sword from under the land where the brothers broke up and offered them as holy relics.
Could this be another part of the holy sword
Benjamin was not disappointed by its ordinary appearance, because he could feel that it seemed to contain a rather strange power.
"Is it... spiritual power?"
After sensing for a while, both he and the system came to this conclusion.
This dagger contains an extremely huge amount of spiritual power, and what's even more strange is that these spiritual powers are extremely messy, as if they were entangled with the mental powers of countless different people, and then twisted together in strange ways, finally forming such a a state.
The broken sword continued to emit strange energy fluctuations, like the energy after the spiritual power was alienated, and the radiation generally spread towards the surroundings.
"So... those corpses have not rotted, is it because of this sword?" Benjamin scratched his head and said.
"may be."
"Then how do you use this thing?"
Benjamin had a headache.
He dug out such a broken sword from the ground, which may have a deep origin. However, he did not know what the use of this thing was. This is obviously not a magic prop, but... a holy object? Artifact? Benjamin didn't know how to define it either.
Just when Benjamin was holding the broken sword and kept wondering. Miles turned his head and saw the sword in his hand, and immediately showed a different expression.
"That's it!"