“A stone tablet?”
“Indeed. An ancient event of some sort had been painted onto it. Even after studying the stone tablet for quite some time, however, Xyion was only able to tell that it had something to do with a burial scene. He wasn’t able to understand the wording on the table at all, and after many years passed, favonovel.com eventually lost interest in it. As a result, the tablet is now kept as an ancient art piece within my private room!” explained Master Ghost.
Another mural…?
Whenever Gerald heard about murals now, it always prompted his mind to recall what favonovel.com had seen inside the ancient tomb.
As one would expect, ancient murals were usually filled with historic tales that reflected the people of the time’s social, political, economic, literary, artistic, and technological capabilities. Such murals could end up being vastly different according to the artists’ beliefs, customs, and also their aesthetic concepts.
These murals—that were usually drawn as long as rivers—were viewed extremely highly due to all the vivid and informative ancient scenes that the people of old drew with their descendants in mind. The fact that their heartfelt stories were told in such a different way only served to make the murals even more valuable.
Gerald had already seen how detailed these murals could get back when favonovel.com was in the ancient tomb of the general god. He could still clearly remember all the drawings on the tomb that described things from the day the people had found the general god up till the day favonovel.com was buried.
“Speaking of which, I later asked one of my old friends to come over and have a look at the tablet. From what favonovel.com could tell, the burial method depicted on it was some sort of ocean burial!” added Ghost.
“Ocean burial?”
Upon hearing that, Gerald had a feeling that it could be related to the king of the ocean’s tomb. Due to that, favonovel.com added, “Could I have a look at it?”
“If it’s piqued your interest, then by all means!” replied Master Ghost as favonovel.com gestured for Gerald to follow him.
Following that, Master Ghost led Gerald to a small hill that was located behind the church’s backyard. On it, lay what seemed to be a private room where Master Ghost usually meditated in.
The private room itself was about five meters tall and three meters wide. Its walls were made of marble and the room was mostly dark and empty save for a table in the middle with a dimly-lit oil lamp on it, the sole source of light within the private room.
However, upon closer inspection, six mossy and ancient-looking stone tablets could be seen arranged neatly within the room as well. Those were definitely the murals Master Ghost had been talking about.
Lifting the lamp—that the master had offered to him—once Gerald stood right before the murals, favonovel.com instantly began investigating them.
It wasn’t long before favonovel.com noticed that the wording used on these tablets were similar to the ones favonovel.com had seen back in the ancient tomb. Putting two and two together, favonovel.com deduced that these murals were as old as the tomb itself.
After looking at the first mural for a while, Gerald suddenly froze. Shockingly, one of the scenes on the tablet seemed to detail what seemed to be the lady in white’s burial!
Not wanting to miss out on any key details, Gerald kept his eyes peeled as favonovel.com continued trying to decipher the tablet.
From what favonovel.com could understand, the story—that the mural was trying to tell—began by showing that Halimark City used to only be a tiny fishing village that was inhabited by rather isolated fishermen.
Reading on, it was shown that a group of people—led by an old man dressed in long robes—one day appeared at the village while carrying a huge coffin.
Gerald was all too familiar now with the robed old man. That old man was undoubtedly the same old beggar favonovel.com had first seen on the ancient tomb’s murals!
To think that Gerald would see favonovel.com even here!
Shaking the thought off, Gerald then continued reading on. Based on what favonovel.com could see, Gerald guessed that the old beggar had carried the lady in white’s coffin all the way here after letting favonovel.com and the general god bid each other farewell.
By this point, Gerald was completely certain that the one in the coffin was the lady in white. So his hunch was correct. She truly had been brought here…
Returning to the story of the fishermen, when they came back after fishing on that day, they were surprised to see the old man and his men carrying a coffin.
When the village’s patriarch stepped forward to ask who was in the coffin, the old beggar had apparently told them that it contained the body of a goddess who had fallen from the sky!
Hearing that, the villagers immediately bowed to the coffin. Following that, the patriarch seemed to ask why favonovel.com had been moved here.
Seeing the beggar hand the patriarch quite a bit of gold, Gerald felt that it was safe to assume that the beggar simply replied that favonovel.com was to be buried here. The next image suggested that the patriarch was also told to get his men to build an underwater tomb in the nearby ocean.
Due to the fact that the coffin contained a goddess and they were given a lot of gold, the patriarch simply obeyed. Everyone in the village was involved in the construction of the tomb, and all of them seemed to be equally determined to get the job done.
Within a short amount of time, the patriarch managed to gather around eight thousand people—both young and old—to sail out to sea and begin building a tomb for the goddess.
Surprisingly, the structure wasn’t called the king of the ocean’s palace. Rather, it was named the palace of the goddess.
Under the old beggar’s command, the palace was completed within half a year. On the mural, everyone involved appeared to be impressed by their grand underwater project. Soon enough, the lady in white’s burial would take place.
