Book 8: Chapter 75: Immortal Monument
After walking through the downward corridor, the group found themselves facing a gigantic underground hall. This hall was vast, not one bit smaller than Ironstar Fortress’s plaza they’d seen before.
In the hall’s center stood a pure white obelisk over ten meters tall. Its base was square, with each side roughly two meters, tapering upward into a four-sided pyramid, ending in a sharp, pyramid-shaped point.
Behind the obelisk sat a long stone platform half a person tall and two meters long. It resembled an altar, but reminded them more of an evenly-sized sarcophagus.
Other than these two structures, the underground hall was utterly empty. The Uvaeren stone slab they’d imagined wasn’t in sight. Yet the scene before them still filled the group with profound awe from within.
The ceiling above seemed like a single, smooth sheet of obsidian rock, completely untouched by tools, giving off a deep, intense darkness. Against this night-sky canopy dotted countless glittering stars that looked like luminous stones, yet their light shone brighter and clearer than any glow rock.
This starlight clustered without scattering, much like moonbeams through forest branches. It filled the entire underground hall with gentle, holy filaments of light, making everyone feel as if they stood within heaven, bathed in sacred radiance.
This obsidian nightscape likely mirrored the universe thousands of years ago. Many constellations and cosmic bands familiar to the group sailed within the starry river. Due to clever design and special angles, some starlight gathered upon the obelisk’s tip, illuminating it so brightly it seemed as if a massive stardust gem was embedded there.
The obelisk surface appeared smooth and plain, lacking any carved writing, almost like an unfinished monument. Yet under the starlight’s touch, countless colorful and dreamy rainbow runes kept flashing and swirling across its surface.
These non-physical magical runes flowed like water over the obelisk. Perhaps they were embedded into it in a way beyond understanding, only revealing themselves under this specific starlight.