"Time to see what all this is about," William turned towards the chests and started to open the first one. He wiped the dust off the cover of his chest, and what he found made him pause.
There was a symbol on the lid, something engraved there, some sort of a flower, like a lotus or something.
Even with all the dust and time passing, the symbol shone in bright silver light. The light emitted out from the symbol rose up and turned slowly black until it turned into a pitch-black thin layer of fog.
He recognised this symbol. It was something that he once saw on an ancient scroll, speaking about some sort of a myth.
"No f*cking way! It wasn't a myth after all!!!" He stood in front of this box, moving his eyes from it towards other boxes around. In the next few minutes, he started to jump from one box to another, clearing the dust away, revealing the same symbol over the lids.
"The Origin Boxes… And there are an entire batch of them here… How come they are here? How come they are real?!!"
William instantly recalled what he read before in that scroll. It was one that was left by a formidable ancient spirit master, speaking about a time when the world was in a different state.
According to that man, the ancient world got berserk spirit power. Masters and monsters couldn't train normally back then, and had to use a medium to absorb, store, and tame the spirit power from the world. Then masters and monsters could use these to train.
These were orbs, in the size of one's head. They were stored within heavy and specially made boxes, with a symbol that was identical to the one on top of these chests. The scroll didn't speak a lot about these boxes, but the little description mentioned there matched what William found here.
The scroll spoke more about how to use the orbs inside these boxes to train. Unlike what common sense would depict, one had to leave these chests intact and not open them. Or else fierce and deadly explosions would happen.
"Don't tell me what caused that disaster back then was for one of these dark masters to open such a box…" William got such a wild idea, one that was partially true.
He didn't know that these weren't normal Origin Boxes, but ones that were connected together with some sort of a link. They used to belong to an ancient powerhouse, one who was afraid for his precious treasure to get stolen.
So he made something and engraved some sort of a grand formation over the entire batch he had. What William found here was just the tip of the iceberg, and the rest of these boxes were scattered all over many dark master bases.
As for how they ended up here, this was another story to tell for another time. William knew the right way to handle these boxes was by taking them away for now. To absorb their stored-up spirit power, one had to be in a safe and secluded place.
It was a long process that'd take time and effort to be done. Any interruption was quite deadly. It was just similar to how he handled the fox statue before. And unlike that statue, these boxes could be moved around inside rings.
William tried to store them inside a few of his rings, ending up for his rings to explode and get ruined. "So, one box per ring… It's my luck that I have tons of useless rings to use," William stored each box inside one ring, and that didn't bring any damage to the rings.
Then he stored these rings inside one, and kept it on his middle finger. He'd treat this ring quite specially from now on. And when he got done, he looked around, making sure he didn't miss anything else.
"I came here for the weird scrolls Angelica spoke about… So where are they?" William knew he was now in the safest and most secretive place in the entire base. If these scrolls were in this base, then they'd be here for sure.
William looked around, but all he could find was just emptiness and dust, nothing else. "Don't tell me there is another hidden safe here," this thought appeared all of sudden in his mind, and he couldn't remove it easily from there.
He started to inspect the ground first, looking for anything abnormal there. Yet he found nothing, and then he turned to the walls.
He looked and found nothing as well. He used a detection array to help him locate anything hidden, and another array to detect abnormally high concentration of spirit power.
"The ceiling is left again," as he found this hidden place at the ceiling, he felt like the ceiling had another secretive space up there. And so he used his flying weapons, and this time the ceiling wasn't that fortified.
*Boom!*
"Cough! Cough!" The moment he released his weapons, the ceiling shook and lots of rubbles and dust fell. Many rocks turned into dust, and that all fell over his head like torrents of rain.
He ended up coughing and sneezing for a few minutes. The moment this happened, he stopped and recalled his flying weapons. But it was a bit too late.
The ceiling didn't show a hidden room or space, just fell on top of his head with tons of dust and crushed rocks. A thick bellow of dust cloud appeared and prevailed the entire space, taking longer time to slowly settle.
Yet after he got adapted to the dust, stopped coughing and sneezing, his eyes stopped over something just a few metres away from him.
It was something shining black light, mixed with the flying fine dust particles that filled the entire place. William couldn't help but move towards it, feeling like his legs were walking in a shallow lake that was formed out of dust and not water. He grabbed that item, and when he examined it, he found it was a scroll.
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