The next day, Noel and Anna came out of their room since they were planning to go to the ancient ruin today. Since their rooms were next to each other, they didn’t have to wait somewhere else since they could simply call each other.
Anna had also gotten a new sword, since her previous sword broke when fighting the demon spider.
Since they weren’t that far away from the ancient ruin, they went there without using their horses.
However, instead of the ancient ruin, they actually went to a mountain range.
“Huh? What is this?” Noel narrowed his eyes. “Why are you bringing us to this mountain range?”
“Because the ruin is around here. I don’t know how we can find it though.” Anna shook her head helplessly. She added inwardly, ‘In the past life, the tomb was found around here. But Noel was the only one who could open it. So, I don’t know if there’s some kinds of hidden mechanisms waiting for us or not…’
“You don’t know how to find it?” Noel looked at her with an annoyed expression.
“But it’s true. The ancient ruin should be in this place. It’s better if we start searching around. Although we don’t care about the dark thanks to the Moon Blessing, it’s still better to finish this matter during the day.” Anna shrugged, telling him that her information was limited to this.
Noel let out a long sigh. On the one hand, he wanted to ignore all of this and just went straight to his family mansion to find out about the truth. On the other hand, Anna wasn’t someone who would joke around like this. He could easily confirm it with the Spirit Seal, but seeing how she wanted to use this as an opportunity meant there was something around here.
Noel thought for a moment and asked, “If that’s the case, can’t you scan the area? Just find some clues about the ruin?”
“Alright. Let me look around.” Anna nodded in agreement and started looking around. At the same time, she was also recalling all information about the ruin. ‘How was the ruin found anyway? According to the information, there was actually a guy who accidentally stumbled upon this ruin.
‘However, the guy couldn’t enter deeper because of some reasons. And those some reasons were Noel. Noel became the only person to find something inside and acknowledged as the Sword Saint’s disciple. Of course, we’re talking about Noel’s second identity. With that kind of identity, Noel becomes famous.
‘Maybe I shouldn’t have suggested this? Although Noel can get something from the tomb, he doesn’t get the popularity… But we’ve gone all the way here. I made this mistake months ago, so I guess I can only continue with this. I won’t forget this mistake.
‘Anyway, where’s the ruin? The Sword Saint had a Spirit related to soul, so his soul must be there? If that’s the case, how should I do this? If we’re talking about soul and darkness, the tomb should be underneath a mountain. But there are a few mountains here.’
Anna thought it really hard. She had some pieces of information like the rough area as well as the fact you needed a lot of torches to explore it. So, she knew the tomb was buried underneath a mountain, but she never went here in her previous life, resulting in her not knowing the exact location and what was waiting for them.
However, she noticed something different when looking down. “Wait a minute…”
“What’s wrong? Do you find something?”
Anna pointed down. Since they were at the mountain peak, they could easily see everything below them. Her fingers were directing Noel to the gap between the trees.
“Look at the gap between trees over there. Don’t you think it’s strange?”
Noel furrowed his eyebrows and pointed at the nearby mountain. “Look over there. You can find the same thing. Won’t it be a river or something?”
“Is it?” Anna turned the other way around and found the same pattern. “There is one over there too.”
“Maybe we’ll find the same pattern in all mountains around here?”
“That’s probably the case. But don’t you think it’s strange?”
“What do you mean?” Noel asked while contemplating, whether there was a meaning or not.
Anna pointed at the left. “There, the gap is like a straight line. In this mountain, the gap is curving. Meanwhile, the gap in our right is a straight line again.”
“What are you trying to imply?”
“There’s a pattern…” 𝗼𝐯𝐥.𝗻𝐭
“I know that much. But I don’t know if it’s related or not. We might just be overthinking about this.”
“But isn’t it fine to start searching from there? It’s not like we have other clues.”
Noel and Anna looked at each other for a while before Noel made his decision. “Alright. You go to the left and record the pattern. I’ll go to the right to do the same. We’ll gather in this place again after we record all of them and share what we find.”
“That’s a good idea.”
The two came to an agreement and immediately started working. They ended up walking around a few mountains before noticing there were no more patterns they could find.
Still, even with their strengthened body and Spiritual Energy, it took them half a day just to record all the patterns.
“Here you go.” Anna showed the paper that recorded all the patterns. After that, she took out a pot to start cooking. “I’m going to cook, so you can try to figure it out.”
Noel nodded and tried to figure out the patterns. As expected, the pattern was all over the place. It didn’t even give anyone any idea. It didn’t form a sentence or symbol, making him think it was just a natural occurrence.
He let out a long sigh, thinking about giving up this clue and searching for another one tomorrow. But he was surprised by Ardagan who suddenly alarmed him.
[You’ve found Ardagan Crest.]
“Ardagan Crest?” Noel widened his eyes and looked at the patterns again. It was scrambled, but if he connected each other according to what Ardagan said, he could find a sword and with a star on it, symbolizing the most powerful general in history, whose figure was immortalized in the family crest. “This is… Ardagan Family Crest…”