Master Of None

Chapter 2326: 2326. Ancient Statues

Looking through the ruins, it was amazing to the eyes of all those that had come. Mostly because they were seeing a lot more details about ancient human living than what they had expected to see.

Some of the stone tools found were very familiar since they were tools made out of various metals in today's times. The knowledge that a lot of human tools had survived for many years in the same forms but began to change in materials proved that even ancient humans had developed thinking to manage their building.

But it was quickly discovered that there were broken tools less aged by time. "We found tools that look to have been more closely related to other ancient races. These farming tools came from the ancient angels since they have what appear to be ruined rune markings. Then we have some very rough metal tools that could have been from ancient dwarves. We just haven't found any complete ancient dwarf ruins yet."

The single idea had spawned a lot of talk. "If there are ancient humans who encountered ancient dwarves, then they could have some form of joint ruin or even ruins nearby here. This area is rocky and might have had ores which even ancient dwarves would have coveted."

The quick uptake from Onyx smoothed out the conversations from the researchers who had begun to bring what they found to Onyx at a small camp they made in the large main cavern turned home by the ancient humans.

Everything was starting to come together. Evidence that the humans had used what was around them to adjust their tools and to keep growing despite the dangers that they faced. It was the key reason that ancient humans had survived in the first place.

"From what we can see here, they might have even found destroyed camps or homes of other ancient races. That way they could take knowledge and materials from there to keep surviving." This researcher was one focused on the relationships between races. While his focus was very important here, it was a use for his historical racial relations researcher class which he had been lost about at first.

As a researcher, he had focused on history to put all the puzzle pieces together. Naturally, when his class appeared separate from his historical researcher class, he had wondered how it could be so specific and valuable. However, as Genesis developed, he found a home there while he began to explain the differences that caused certain skirmishes and even different developments within races when interacting with one another. Especially now.

The current day and age was living history that he was a part of. Right now, he was living that and seeing the past help the future. Especially when he found that the ancient races would learn from one another's death at the hands of terrorizing ancient monsters. All to survive another day.

This was also what brought Onyx on a tour following him through the hall near the statues. Some in better conditions than others. Some were even more defined since they were larger and more dangerous ancient monsters.

"We have managed to find a series of ancient monsters carved in to stone here which we already know of." Pointing out a tall and multi horned ogre, "This was a grand ogre, the ancient ogres were much larger with multiple horns on their heads and their skin was often covered in the blood of their prey to attract predators that they could fight against. It's written here."

The writing and symbols under each statue were hard to read but they could be made out utilizing many skills that the researcher possessed. "This could be a valuable piece of information for the ogres and how they developed from their ancient ancestors. But next we have the strange creatures we did not expect to find since they have always been listed as mythical creatures made up in someone's imagination."

The statue was more or less a depiction of a writhing pile of snakes. "We all believed that the serpent nests were just groups of snakes made during breeding seasons. But this statue shows that they existed. The better name for them would be the serpent swarm, a monster that controlled multiple serpent bodies with a nest like this hidden in a cavern controlling them to take over an area."

"This could be very important to know. They are somewhat similar to the false rats that could take over a large area if they are left alone. But this appears to be easier to handle since they are not larger and stronger from what we know of?" There was a lot that Onyx researched himself about serpents and snake monsters.

He had heard of the serpent swarms and the snake nests that appeared to control them. He didn't believe them either, but in those fantasies, they were always weak swarms and never massive serpents in high numbers.

"What about this statue here, is this a giant?" Onyx kept moving and tried not to think about the potential dangers that ancient monster swarms could cause. He would have to handle that if Genesis encountered them in the future.

"We believe this is what is known as a giant. From what we can see, the giants were both seen as monsters and as a race. The ancient humans recognized that they could be spoken to and handled with respect but we're better handled as monsters due to their size and habits of eating entire years worth of crops in a day."

This explained a lot, the larger statue was more defined since the giant resembled humans by quite a bit. Unfortunately, there was a significant amount of writing around the statue that stated the dangers. Many of the giants would even stomp on other smaller races and monsters like they were insects. "It is shown that the giants were very weak to magical attacks which is why we might never find evidence of their kind or their bloodlines again."

Mana was so much of a focus on the world that this made a lot of sense to Onyx. A race without any resistance to magic at all would easily crumble next to the many races that had instinctual usage of mana and magical skills.

"This statue here is one of the most developed though. It doesn't appear to have aged much at all. There are red paint markings on it and no writing at all. We have no idea what monster it was but it appears to be very similar to what we believe ancient humans looked like."

The statue was a nearly perfect carved statue with rough monster material clothing. Along with two bone daggers in its hands to show that it was some ancient human warrior. The red paint or coloring on it also appeared to be in a pattern covering the arms only. Its strangeness was making it stand out compared to a few others. But Onyx noticed that there were multiple of them around the hall. All the same markings and the same statue.

"Was it some important leader then?" Onyx asked as he heard the scraping of stone which made him turn around.

His tail was able to whip out of his shadow with barely enough time to stop the stone daggers carved to look like bones from stabbing in to the researcher's neck. All around the cavern, shouts and screams as the same statues began to move as well. No, as they began to attack the researchers and soldiers there to keep an eye on the situations.

"Everyone be at the ready! The statues can also be monsters!" Onyx was ready to slam his tail against the moving statue again, but he found that it was totally focused on the researcher. Its daggers were aimed at the researcher to attack it with full force. It didn't even appear to

glance at Onyx.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The same scene was happening through the ancient human ruin and Onyx had a sinking

feeling of why.

These monsters had to be why these ancient human ruins were exactly that, ruins. Why the ancient humans didn't even have bones left here and why the ruins were abandoned entirely without evidence that the ancient humans had perished here.

More terrifying than that, Onyx's attack hadn't cracked or even visibly damaged the moving statue. Instead, he noticed that his scale had actually cracked. Something that had not happened for quite some time. It was why he began channeling the dark and light mana he had control of to cover his body in armored reinforcements.

Another scream cut through the air as someone with an all around appraisal scroll dodged an attack and began to try and get the attention of everyone. They had just managed to get the information about this monster which had been hiding right in front of their faces.

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