The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 559

Chapter 559 What Is It?

Rae did still call her golems, and Karl added the Lamia Bodyguards to the group, but Dana left her Golems in reserve. Unlike Rae, she didn't get much situational information from hers, only a vague sense of where they were and what happened around them. They couldn't be used to search for treasures in the ruins, but they might accidentally squish them into the soft dirt.

The majority of the ruined city was still covered in the rich black topsoil and long grass that had grown over it, but the magic which had caused it to rise was slowly dissipating the excess.

The architecture was simple, with fieldstone walls crumbled by time, and piles of small round river rocks next to the remains of small houses. Many appeared to have been one room buildings, but there were signs of indoor plumbing, so they weren't completely primitive, just small homes.

"Do you think that these were the slums of town? All the small houses, and I see a lot of petrified wood piled up in the corners, but not split for firewood. I think they had bunk beds, so it might have been a military barracks as well." One of the Spellblades noted quietly.

"The quality is good, fieldstone with stone floors. Barracks or possibly traveller dorms would make sense." Corbin agreed.

That reminded Karl of something he read in a history book. Back in the ancient past, when the system was fully active, most towns were built around a dungeon entrance. Both to keep the area secure, and for the travellers and adventurers who came to visit supplied and fed.

There was a whole industry around harvesting the resources from the dungeons, but it took skilled and powerful groups of warriors.

But most dungeons were for groups of either five or ten people.

So, these small houses could be something like private hotels for them, rented to house the whole group, but not a lifelong, or likely even a long-term residence.

The slums would look empty in a place like this, as they would have been canvas tents or tin roofed shacks. Plus, there normally wasn't much left of them if the inhabitants had to evacuate.

The magic that had raised the ruins from the ground was still too strong to detect much, even for Remi, who was very well attuned to mana flows as a Shaman.

But the Lamia bodyguards did find a few 'treasures' in the dirt, which turned out to be silver chains with semi-precious stones in them.

They handed them straight to Remi, though it was Tessa who actually knew how to identify magical items properly.

However, it appeared that Remi could do it as well, though not in the same way. She had just learned to use the system to sort things that had some level of attunement.

[Inspect] Karl heard her think.

[Junk, junk, oh, shiny.]

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