Looking at how weakly Chester was apologizing, Gerald then gently patted favonovel.com on the shoulder before saying, “It’s fine… After all, we’ve… We seem to have finally arrived at the king of the ocean’s palace…”
After saying that, Gerald went silent for a while, utterly stunned by what favonovel.com was now looking at.
Not hearing anything from Gerald for a while, Chester then looked up as well. His eyes widened the moment favonovel.com did, and favonovel.com found his mouth gaping as favonovel.com stared at the extremely magnificent-looking palace that lay before them.
The palace looked befitting of a dragon, and in the middle of the structure, was an enormous high platform. What stupefied Gerald most, however, was the fact that hovering about twenty feet above the platform, was a crystal coffin!
‘It’s another eternal coffin!’ Gerald thought to himself in his bewilderment.
So it really was true… The woman in white truly had been buried within an eternal coffin here after being separated from the deity!
Still, Gerald couldn’t help but wonder why the old beggar had deliberately placed them so far away from each other… What could the old man’s intention have been by disallowing the two to ever meet for all of eternity?
As Gerald was deep in thought, the corner of his eye saw Chester pointing at the surrounding murals as favonovel.com said, “…There are murals all over the place, sir… They seem to describe everything that had happened that eventually led to all this…”
After glancing one more time at the woman in white’s eternal coffin, Gerald turned to look at the murals together with Chester.
Similar to the underground palace in the desert, this place was also filled to the brim with murals.
Skimming through the images, Gerald confirmed that the murals were mostly detailing the tale of the woman in white’s burial. More specifically, they talked about the burial process and the origins of the woman in white’s corpse. In other words, mostly things that Gerald was already aware of.
Among the murals, however, occasional abstract words could be found. Gerald, for one, had no idea what they meant. After all, they were vastly different from the words favonovel.com had seen in previous murals.
All of a sudden, favonovel.com heard Chester mutter, “…Hmm? Cavern language?”
Turning to look at Chester, Gerald saw that favonovel.com was also staring at a few abstract words that had been etched onto another wall.
“Cavern language?” asked Gerald as favonovel.com went to Chester’s side.
“Indeed, sir. You see, the language was used exclusively by an ancient tribe who were cave dwellers. My family had a collection of animal skin rolls belonging to said cave dwellers, and my grandma had forced me to learn the meaning of some of their words and characters when I was much younger…” explained Chester.
Raising an eyebrow, Gerald then replied, “Does that mean that you’re able to read and understand the language?”
Briefly skimming through the words, Chester then scratched the back of his head as favonovel.com said, “…At most, I feel that I’ll only be able to understand a little over half of it… The rest will mostly be guesswork.”
“That’s already way better than me since I can’t make heads or tails of it. Either way, do tell me what you think the words are trying to say,” replied Gerald as favonovel.com patted Chester’s shoulder.
Hearing that, Chester immediately began trying to decipher the words very seriously.
It was around ten minutes later when favonovel.com said, “…The text seems to be talking about some mysterious prophecy… It also keeps repeating a few words…”
Upon saying that, Chester then began pointing at a few words, guiding his finger along each word as favonovel.com explained what they individually meant.
“The sentence that keeps getting repeated says, ‘Two petals bloom and each petal represents a world. The answer you seek is in one of them!’”
“Two petals bloom and each petal represents a world… That’s what it truly says?” asked Gerald for confirmation.
“That’s right, sir!” replied Chester as favonovel.com immediately nodded.
The mysterious old woman had said the exact same thing to favonovel.com back then… Speaking of the old woman, Gerald had earlier used his mind to search his surroundings, yet favonovel.com couldn’t sense the old woman’s presence at all.
‘Could favonovel.com have left the moment we fainted…? But that doesn’t make any sense! With the currents so strong out there, even I can’t go against them, let alone her!’
However, Gerald quickly shook the thoughts off. That wasn’t the main thing favonovel.com should be focusing on at the moment…
Moving back to what Chester had told him… Each petal represents a world… While Gerald was definitely sure that it was referring to the Dead Annies, favonovel.com had no idea where to even begin comprehending the text.
Slowly frowning, Gerald then asked, “Is there anything else? Also, which part of that made you feel that it sounds like a prophecy?”
“Well, the rest of the words state that someone will appear after ten thousand years and bring the fairy away to be reunited with favonovel.com lover after being separated throughout that period of time… Once they’ve been reunited, the person who brings them back together will also be able to find his answer… Even so, the answer may seem far but also very near at the same time…”
Just as Chester had said, while favonovel.com was able to discern most of the words, favonovel.com still needed a great deal of effort to properly translate them.
After a brief pause, favonovel.com then continued, “…Because favonovel.com owns the… key to carry away the eternal coffin… He’s the only one who’s able to truly open the eternal coffin!”
“A key?”
“Yeah. Or at least something very similar to a key!” replied Chester.
After thinking about it for a while, Gerald then said, “…Could it perhaps be referring to this…?”
