Chapter 145: Abandoned |
Nexus wasn't thrilled by the fact that he had to sit here and listen to the 'dumb' questions being thrown by the reporters in front of him. What kept him going was Eva being here. He was just praying that this whole thing is almost over.
"Does the project have a name?" One of the people stood up and asked.
"Hmm, it will be called Project Future." Eva thought of the name on the spot.
The person, having his question answered, sat back down.
A few more questions kept coming and Eva calmly answered everything. Thirty or so minutes later, it was finally over.
Eva and Nexus walked out of the room and went out of the building. The two planned to go home. Eva had to check on the three people that Marcus turned into the 'Children of Chaos'. This whole time those three had been training with minimum time to rest.
Their cultivation, however, didn't rise by much, but their fighting prowess surely did. The three were now rank 3 Commander Stage, and the boost that they took before coming to Estra is already showing its negative effects. Cultivating was now a lot harder. Reaching new heights now seemed close to impossible.
One of Eva's side projects was to develop a cure to this, which she was close to doing. It was only a simple negative effect for her who has been one of the best alchemists in the realm above heaven.
"The people should be on our side in the near future," Nexus spoke as they got in the white-colored car.
She leaned her head on Nexus' shoulders and sighed.
"Tired?" Nexus asked as he stroked her face. He smilingly looked at the goddess beside him and thought of how precious she is.
"Mhm," Eva slightly nodded. She closed her eyes and began to drift away.
Nexus removed his hand from her face. He then changed the course of the car and made it circle around the city a dozen or so times to give Eva some time to sleep.
'Replays are always available on the internet.' Nexus thought. His eyes now shifted to the mortal city below him.
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Marcus and Ergetse stood outside of an oval building. Multiple while pillars with jade on the outside supported the building. A round dome-like gold-colored roof shined as the two looked at it.
"This is our library, the one and only. Our history is placed here and also spectacular events were logged. Novels and such about the people in the past and their heroic deeds were made and placed here too." Ergetse told Marcus as the two began to walk inside.
"I see, the structure looks amazing." Marcus followed Ergetse as he looked around the place.
"This was adapted by works our ancestors caught a glimpse of in the past." Ergetse happily told the thing about the nagas.
Marcus just nodded as he listened.
They walked closer and closer to the door of the library. Ergetse opened the door and led Marcus inside.
The nagas, siyokoy, and kappas all looked weirdly at the only human in the room. Even before coming here, the inhabitants were already giving weird looks towards Marcus, but he didn't mind. He knew that it must be hard for them to accept having someone like him in their city.
"What are you looking at? Go back to minding your own business!" Ergetse slightly raised his voice. He didn't care if there were people with higher ranks than him as he was told to keep the vermilion-haired teen safe and entertained. Having people look at them this way would only make the teen feel uncomfortable so he told the people to duck off in a nice way.
"It's fine, they are probably just curious." Marcus lightly chuckled. "Now lead me to the history of your people."
Ergetse nodded. He glanced at the ones around and continued walking.
There were dozens of rows of shelves lined up. There were also large shelves situated on the walls. Books filled the brown-colored shelves. There were a few spots that lacked books but that is not because the books are lost but because someone who was in the library borrowed them.
Ergetse led Marcus towards a certain large shelf.
"These are the books about the history of our races. They talk a lot about how we lived in the past and how we worshipped gods." Ergetse spoke as he tapped the side of the shelf.
Ergetse asked. "Are you going to read each and every one of these?"
There were dozens and dozens of books on this shelf, and this isn't the only shelf that had their history in it, there were more. Reading all of those would probably take a month.
"Does it also talk about the leviathan?" Marcus asked as he walked closer to the shelf. He used his index finger to hover a few inches of the books and chose which one he would read first.
"Yes, there are a few things written about him." Ergetse's eyes shifted around the books on the shelf and a second or two later he grabbed one.
He opened it and did a quick scan. "Yep, this is the one. This talks about the leviathan you are so fascinated about."
Marcus placed his index finger down and received the book that Ergetse handed him. "Thank you. Aren't you also fascinated by the leviathan?"
Marcus wouldn't believe it if Ergetse would say no. How could he, when the leviathan was the protector of this place?
Ergetse grinned. "Of course I am. Hell, I am fascinated by him. But me being a naga explains why I feel that way. You, on the other hand, aren't a naga, nor are you a siyokoy, certainty from what I saw you are not a kappa, so I'm wondering why you are fascinated by the leviathan."
For him, It wasn't normal for an outsider to be this fascinated by their guardian. It felt weird having someone do this.
"Him being mysterious probably what makes me curious about him," Marcus answered as he began reading the book in his hand.
Ergetse stayed silent on the side, picking out another book for him to read. He wanted to suggest grabbing a seat, but as he looked at how concentrated Marcus was at reading, he didn't say anything and just picked a book to spend time on while waiting.
Marcus read the book in his hand and didn't mind his surroundings, he flipped page after page after letting his index finger travel on the surface of the page.
The ones written so far didn't answer his question so far.
Where the leviathan came from?
"Are there other books about the leviathan?" Marcus asked as he closed the large book in his hand. He just skimmed from page to page, while reading a few of them in the past Thirty or so minutes, but he could not see the answer to his question.
"This one I'm holding." Ergetse looked up. He wasn't too engrossed from the book he read. He was already taught about most of these when he was still a kid and he was just reading right now to pass the time.
Marcus and Ergetse switched books.
'Hopefully, this one has it.' Marcus said to himself as he once again skimmed through every page of the book. Looking for keywords and such.
A few minutes later, Marcus found what he was looking for.
'Abandoned when he was young, the child roamed the wilderness, the mountains, and the seas looking for his family. Having found none, he went to take a deep slumber in the ocean, and that is how he found us many years later.' Marcus read the words in his head.
"Abandoned when he was a child?" Marcus mumbled. He couldn't understand this part. He knew that the 'Holy God' would not send young nagas into missions. He was told that only the Elites of the nagas would go on faraway missions, the young ones would either train at home or take up simpler ones.
This was because the said god valued his leviathans so much, he didn't have that many leviathans and breeding was quite difficult. Not impossible, just difficult.
Ergetse looked up. "What? Oh, you mean the leviathan being abandoned as a child? That is actually true. The leviathan said so himself. He said to the writer that he remembered seeing a slightly blurry face of a female with long black hair that held him in her arms, which he theorized to be his mother."
Marcus scrunched his brows. "So the leviathan here is quite young?"
Ergetse shook his head. "He's old, well. Well in human terms he is old. But in beast terms, he is still quite young."
Marcus nodded but didn't say anything. He closed the book and placed it back on the shelf.