Chapter 1658: Ancient city
Lex's clone stood at the edge of the waterfall, observing the crystal clear liquid falling down with loud fury. On Earth, glacier water was usually considered one of the purest sources of water available. Here, glacier water held residual taint from some long forgotten contamination, making the water extremely aggressive in nature and dangerous to touch - not that Lex was considering bathing in that water or something.
Behind the waterfall, an arch was visible, coincidentally the perfect size to allow Lex through. But through the arch, he could only see shadows, as if it led to an unlit path.
Carefully, so as to not disturb the waterfall, Lex made his way around the water, and approached the arch, stepping in.
Fortunately, nothing crazy or abrupt happened. The arch leading back to the same waterfall was still behind him, and just to be sure, he stepped out and back in a few times. The arch stayed in place, and nothing in the surroundings changed.
Once his experiment was completed, Lex stepped into the arch and began to explore. It was dark, but the darkness wasn't mystical. Instead, it was because he seemed to be inside a large cavern.
From the tip of his finger, he summoned a faint light, illuminating the cavern. It looked entirely natural, if a little large, with countless stalactites and stalagmites. Somewhere in the distance, Lex could hear a drop of water dripping down into a puddle, but that wasn't what Lex was paying attention to.
Right in front of him, as if concerned that he wouldn't have been able to find it, was a large building of some sort, with spires around it, reaching the very roof of the cavern. There was a winding path that led to the entrance of the building, as if that wasn't suspicious at all.
This didn't look much like ruins, even if Kaemon had claimed that the ruins were well preserved.
Lex began to approach the building, keeping his senses spread wide on his surroundings to spot any and all abnormalities. Yet this was the most ordinary cavern Lex had ever come across, with no other surprises.
Though that was to be expected. Kaemon had said that all the knowledge he learned was depicted in murals that filled the actual ruins. If he completed the ruins task, he could retain the knowledge he had gained, and if he did not, he would forget.
But Kaemon also felt that the knowledge here was contaminated, for even after forgetting the knowledge, a fragment of the weight it caused stayed with Kaemon, and the others, causing a pressure that they still hadn't been able to overcome. That was the primary reason why Kaemon refused to enter another ruin. The weight of the knowledge he had learned and forgotten still weighed on him in an unbearable fashion.