The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 101

Chapter 101 Forgotten Temple

They were standing in a lush green valley, as he had guessed from the sound, surrounded by mountains, with a massive golden pyramid temple in front of them.

The steps up each side pulsed with magic that he could feel even from hundreds of metres away, while between him and the temple stood thousands of glowing crystal golems, the same rainbow hue as the crystals that they had come here to recover.

"I'm going to guess that there was no warning about not touching the crystal with your bare skin. But wherever we are, we might be in trouble." Karl informed the others, who were a bit slower to adjust than he was.

"How did we get here? And holy hell, are those Golems? I want one." Dana gasped, shocking Karl with her unexpected language.

The Golems were beautiful, and they looked powerful, but if Thor's guess was right, they were far from friendly.

Thor activated his lightning barrier, ready to fight, but the Golems didn't move at all. They just stood there, watching the group of intruders from a distance.

Karl stepped forward to calm the nervous Cerro, not wanting to start an incident before everyone was recovered, and they had some idea what was going on. If touching the crystal brought them here, then doing it again on this side might send them all back.

That would likely be for the best if it was possible.

But when he got a few steps forward, a message appeared in the air in front of them.

[Welcome to the World Dragon Temple's Trial Instance]

"Do you see that?" Dana asked from behind him.

"I do, and I would rather that I didn't if it means we've got to fight those golems." Karl agreed.

"I think that we stepped into an ancient holy relic. The crystals must have been the ruins of its activation array before it was buried under the cavern, and now we're in some sort of trial ground that the World Dragon Church set up for their members." She added.

"That's not reassuring at all."

Though most of the holy relics from those ancient times didn't lead to death, a trial ground might, especially if it was damaged by time.

While they tried to make sense of the message, one of the Golems stepped forward.

[The trial is simple. Make it up the steps to claim your reward. If you fall down the steps, you may continue to attempt to pass your previous high mark.] The Golem spoke in a strange accent, directly into their minds.

The lines of Golems split, leaving the road empty, and Karl took another step forward with Thor between him and the crystal giant.

It made no move to attack, and Karl simply shrugged at the other students as he began to walk toward the golden temple.

If they had happened upon a holy relic, there was bound to be something left behind from the Mythical times, when magic users reigned supreme, and legendary beasts vied against dragons for supremacy of the skies.

According to the tales of his childhood, the World Dragon, and the World Dragon Church of those times, had made a pact that had allowed the humans to live glorious lives of power and wealth.

Now that the Elite Serum had been developed, Karl and everyone else knew that it was likely related to the System Stones, but the fairy tale only got more popular instead of fading once it was proven to be plausible historical fact. _{freёwebnovel.com}

Maybe he would learn what had happened to end those glorious times, and how such a powerful culture fell into ruin. This place looked intact, so it had to have survived hundreds of thousands of years of history, buried beneath the forest.