Transcendent Dawn - Chapter 212
Chapter 212: Chapter 0212: Burial (Three More Subscriptions Requested)
Translator: 549690339
“Wow, pup, you’ve got a knack for treasure hunting!”
James held a dry branch, fiddling with a pile of miscellaneous items on the ground.
They included a black glove, several mottled ancient metal coins, a ring, a badge and other accessories.
These were all harvested from the soil by Erha.
“This badge…”
Diana squatted down, looking at the pattern on it: ” It used a shield, a sword and a bauhinia flower… This is the style of the Chris Empire, its owner, perhaps was a noble from the Chris Empire… Hmm, the kind from three hundred years ago!”
She looked at the skull, her expression somewhat strange.
‘This woman… seems to yearn for the noble way of life…’
Su Lu murmured inwardly.
“Hey … stop looking at that badge, look what this is!”
John grabbed the ancient coins without minding the dirt, then wiped off the mud and grime on them to reveal a shiny luster: “Gold! Gold coins, and they also have antique value… we’re going to make a fortune.”
“Make a fortune?”
Elizabeth hesitated: “Don’t we … shouldn’t we return them to their owner, and give them a proper burial?”
“Don’t be silly…”
John glanced at the small grave tunnel, his eyes sparkling: “There might… still be a treasure inside! I suggest, we should properly excavate this place, at most we’ll give their original owner a proper burial, the rest of these things, is payment we deserve!”
‘The guy’s reasoning is blinded by greed… the real treasure in the grave should belong to Hallock now…’
Su Lu glanced at Erha.
He found that the dog was squatting there, staring with a solemn dog face, watching his owner and his friends arguing.
‘Hmm… Isaac is a good boy, insisting on burying the burial objects together, his family conditions should be quite good… Diana can’t let go of that badge… James has an ambiguous attitude, but if he really gets rich, he would definitely want his share… As for Elizabeth…’
Su Lu also watched with cold eyes.
Suddenly Elizabeth caught his eye and asked: “Sean, what’s your opinion?”
“My opinion… is to return all the burial objects to their original owner… Just remember, the owner of this grave, might be a temperamental, stingy, and jealous fellow…”
Su Lu glanced at the dark forest, the corner of his mouth slightly hooked upward.
“Crazy…”
John muttered: “If you guys don’t want it, it’s all mine!”
He lay down in front of the gravely narrow grave tunnel, seemingly trying to see if he could squeeze in.
Suddenly, John screamed and fell backward.
His face was incredibly pale, his whole body trembling, and there were wet marks at the base of his pants.
“What happened?”
“You…”
This oddity instantly attracted everyone’s attention.
Elizabeth and Diana looked at John’s embarrassment, turned their blushing faces away.
“Ah! Inside that hole… there’s a face!”
John stuttered about his discovery: “He…he was just staring at me! Staring at me!”
“There’s no one!”
James holding an axe, bent down slightly and stared into the cave: “Hallock didn’t find anything earlier…”
“Maybe…it’s the lingering spirit of the tomb master!”
Su Lu added.
“Undead? An interesting thought… Do you believe in the existence of spirits?” Elizabeth asked back.
“Maybe… but if I were the tomb master, I probably wouldn’t want anyone to take away my burial objects.”
Su Lu stuck to his opinion.
He found that these people were all being watched by a Revenant, and the best thing to do at this point was trying to resolve the issue peacefully.
Although… the source of all these was a dog.
‘It should be Hallock who dug up the grave last night and ate some special item or potion, which caused an ‘transformation’! The true object the Revenant is after, should be the transcendent wealth, unfortunately … it can no longer be returned.’
Now Su Lu could only try to bury the remains and see if he could appease the other side.
Because his condition was really bad, he didn’t want to take any action.
The scene suddenly froze.
James pressed his lips together, trying to say something.
“Ah!!!”
Just then, Diana pointed to somewhere in the forest and screamed: “There’s… a person over there!”
“Who?”
James rushed over, but didn’t find anyone. There were no traces of anyone walking on the ground either.
“I saw it… it was a very strange man, dressed very strange, with an ancient style, wearing a hunter’s outfit, wearing that medal, pale-faced, bleeding from both eyes…”
Diana hugged her arms and crouched down: “He… he doesn’t seem alive!”
“Really? Are there really ghosts?”
When friends were seeing ghosts one after the other, even Isaac started doubting.
“Just to be on the safe side …should we bury him, and should we not take away the burial objects?”
The startled group quickly reached a consensus.
They spent a day digging up the grave tunnel and cleaning out the remains.
It was a very ordinary skeleton, with tattered clothes on it, hard to recognise what it was in the first place.
He must have been buried here due to an earthquake or some other disaster, unfortunately, there were no diaries or any other recorded information.
Next to the original mound, Isaac and the others built a new tomb for him, with the epitaph next to it: “An unknown traveler, may his soul find rest!”
In the end, they buried all the objects that they had found, intact, around the tomb and offered wild flowers they picked as a tribute, and conducted a collective prayer.
During this time, the Revenant surprisingly did not appear again.
This restored the calmness in John and Diana, while James and the others seemed to be very excited, thinking that this camping trip was really thrilling, and they would have something to talk about when they returned.
Time quickly fell into the night.
Isaac and the others were enjoying dinner around the campfire.
“I’ve decided… I’m going to write this into my travel notes.”
Elizabeth announced first.
“This is so cool… traveling in the deep mountains, a nameless man’s skeleton … and a Revenant…” James was also excited, and a little regretful: “I wanted to see him too…”
“No, you wouldn’t…”
John, who had been silent throughout, finally spoke: “It was simply a nightmare!”
“Yes!”
Diana, who was standing by, nodded.
They believed that after doing these things, completing the appeasing ceremony for the evil spirits, the other party would not come to bother them anymore.
Su Lu drank his soup in silent observation at the side: ‘Unfortunately… some Revenants only follow their own rules, what’s more…’
He glanced at Hallock by his side.
This damned dog had no realisation of the trouble it caused, it was still there acting cute, trying to get some food.
Only its pair of pale blue eyes seemed to be even more profound.
