1543 Strange Feelings

Zain squinted his eyes, thinking of all he went through to find this Holy Stone.

In the ancient text, it was sometimes called the Holy Stone. And other times called the Holy Core. Either one was right.

But all in all, the successful search and confiscation of this Core was primarily because of his particular ancestors.

Yup!

The recovered hidden texts from his ancestor were what triggered the search in the first place.

The story was quite a short one.

In the beginning, the holy core aided in killing a majority of beasts in the world, giving humans a chance to survive.

And after humanity's great victory, the ones called guardians placed the Holy Core at its resting place, agreeing to destroy all and any information about the Holy Core.

Why they did this wasn't clear.

In fact, how the Holy Core came into this world was also unclear. But there are a lot of strange things in this world, so who knows...

Maybe it fell from the sky, or perhaps it was a gift from their Abian God of War and destruction.

In truth, many, even Zain, believed it to be from the God of War.

He even believed it was solely bright for Morgany's use and also thought the other continents had cheated Morgany of their entitlement.

In his mind, all good things were for Morgany and Morgany alone.

Anyway, the other Holy guardians chose to destroy all information on the Holy Stone.

But in Morgany, the guardian here wasn't too happy about this plan.

And with his best friend, they tried to hide all they knew about the Holy Core.

But this was where things got messy.

The Morg Guardian was killed almost immediately as he hatched then, leaving only his friend, Zain's ancestor, to carry on the plan in secret.

Greed... They wanted the powers from the holy stone.

Zain felt it should be so. Even he couldn't swear he wouldn't do the same if it were him.

And in the end, Zain's ancestor had died under the hands of these unknown guardians in the ancient text.

But before his death, his ancestor had already prepared for the worst, leaving bits and pieces of these ancient texts scattered like a riddle.

What was so amazing was that he left them not just in Morgany but on several other continents too.

He left a paper with just 3 lines in some hidden path in an empire in Zohl, others in Romain, and even in Lampe (now the enemy continent, home to Adonis.)

It was estimated that he got killed 3~4 years after his big quest, running about from place to place and hiding all he knew.

Hell!

There was even a secret scroll in one of their Morg royal palace vaults that even the monarch didn't know about.

And over the eras, centuries, and thousands of years, no one had ever stumbled upon the first scroll... That is until one of Zain's great-great~... So many~... great-grandfathers found a hidden passageway in their estate.

This estate was passed down from generation to generation. And every owner was told never to let the estate fall into the hands of others.

But why? No one knew until the hidden passageway was uncovered.

And thus began the hearty search for the Holy Core.

It's funny to know that a small part of Zain's heritage was also tangled with Pyno since one of his ancestors married the true Morg lady who belonged to this powerful heritage.

If one could recall, the temple of Adonis made several Pyno pirates flee Deiferus and join forces with other pirates hated by their various empires to form the current pirate organization.

Hundreds and thousands of years have also gone by with all those people marrying Morgs.

And now their descendants were true Morgs, with some being just 1% Pyron or 1% Tenolian.

All in all, many generations have passed, and Zain also picked up the mantle titled to his Jone's Clan legacy --- the search for the Holy Core.

In this matter, he and his ancestors had contributed to 60% of the findings of this core.

So his Jone's Clan had much a say in this matter, though he also understood his Jone ancestor who wrote down all the clues was probably working under the plans and instructions from that dead Morg guardian

But who?

wished he knew the defendant of that

In the end, they found it.

But Zain still wasn't lax.

There was a single riddle-styled sentence in the ancient texts he still didn't understand.

[Stone, oh Holy Stone. You shine brighter with every special sign you meet.]

Special sign?

Zain was perplexed.

What special signs did the Holy Core need to shine brighter than it already did?

Was it a sign from the sky? Or thunder from above?

All ancient texts gathered began with this sentence.

And he, Zain, would be a fool to believe it was just a simple poem or riddle.