Chapter 195 - 195 Ruins Of Foh

195 Ruins Of Foh

Arc saw that many adventurers were looking for a way into the ruins, there are countless swamp areas in that place, and anyone of them could have a powerful beast living in it. Unfortunately, survivors didn't really know which part of the swamp they got in. They can only point to a certain area. 

But the problem is, the area they are pointing to is one of the most dangerous regions in the endless swamp. There are countless swamps in the endless swamp, and thus it got the name, endless swamp, one of the forbidden regions on the continent. 

Endless swamps danger lies not in the number of powerful monsters, but instead in the number of swamps. It ranges from a few meters to several kilometers wide. And 80 percent of the monsters in the endless swamp are poisonous. 

Any wrong step could send you to your death. 

As such, Arc and his group need to be careful for they have no idea what lurks in the swamps. 

Luckily they have fewer things they need to worry about like poison and drowning, as those are not a problem for them. Their warbots and health supplies are more than enough to deal with it. What they worried about are powerful traps and monsters that are beyond their capability. 

And true to its name in just a few minutes, the number of adventurers are beginning to dwindle… 

But despite the danger, endless swamps are one of the favorite places of adventurers, mainly because it is abundant with resources and rare herbs, and exotic materials are everywhere in the endless swamps. And so every year countless adventurers enter it to try their luck. Of course, the death toll is also enormous, but that doesn't stop the adventurers from continuing to explore the endless swamps. Once in a while, one lucky guy can find extremely rare herbs or other materials and makes them rich overnight. This kind of thing fuels or drives other adventurers to risk their lives, hoping they will be the next lucky guy. 

After wandering for a few minutes, one of the drones manages to find an entrance. It's a small cave only big enough for two people to walk side by side. 

The drones manage to explore it and find what looks like an ancient city. Arc didn't know if it's the same ruins the other adventurer has managed to find. Without any other options, Arc and his group make their way for the ruins...

He is not afraid of any ambush as the drones already paved the way for them, and no ambush or trap was found. 

But despite that, Ruby and Jem are not taking any chances, so they are leading in order to scout and check for any hidden traps... 

On the way, they encountered several monsters, but all of them are easily dealt with by Ruby and Jem. And after a few minutes of walking, they finally saw the ruins. 

Arc looks at the ruins and sees that it looks like medieval city stone houses and buildings littered the place. He couldn't tell just how old the ruins are, but he knows this is not the same ruins the adventurers have discovered. 

For starters, there are countless skeletons littered the place, so before they start exploring, Arc released many drones and Droids ahead of them. Drones for scouting and droids for gathering treasures and whatnot. 

Following behind the droids and drones are the Arc's group. 

"This place is not attacked or anything as there are no marks of battle." Said Ruby. 

"Hmmm… then how did these people die?" Ask Arc. 

They entered one of the houses and saw that not much is disturbed. There's no indication that the people living in the house had any intention of leaving. Unfortunately, a long time has passed and all evidence on how they died has long been gone with time. Many of the items inside the house have long turned to dust... Only a few things manage to survive the test of time. 

Ruby was studying one of the skeletons and noticed something.. 

"Boss take a look at this..." Said Ruby

Arc walked to Ruby and saw what she was looking at; one of the skeleton's bones has turned black.. 

"Boss this is poison and a potent one at that, so strong that it invades even the bones turning it black..." 

"Is it still dangerous?" Ask Arc. 

"Not anymore, all traces of poisons are long gone. But we must be careful there might be some poison who manages to survive." 

Arc nodded... "Anything useful here?" 

"Ruby shakes her head. This is just a common household, so I don't think there's any value in it, and even if there was its long turn to dust. But we'll keep looking anyway." 

Arc nodded. 

He exited the house as he just got a report from a drone. Apparently, this place is about 2sq kilometers.. He was looking at a birds-eye view of the ruins. Then he notices something. 

"Did you find something boss.." Ask Biggs. 

"Yeah, some kind of monument in the center of the ruins."

Let's check it out. Said Jem, who suddenly appeared next to them. 

"Sure, let's go." 

"I'll stay here boss, and take a look and see if there's anything we can learn from this place." Said Ruby. 

Arc nodded. 

Ruby disappeared after saying that.

Arc's group went directly to the center of the ruins ignoring everything else.. Arc wasn't worried he would miss something, as the droids and drones were precisely for that purpose. 

At the center of the ruin, they saw what looked like an obelisk. And unlike the rest of the ruins, which are mostly dilapidated, the obelisk is in perfect condition as there's not even a speck of dust on it. 

Arc saw it and was a little surprised, "a shield?.. No, he looked down and saw some kind of glowing runes... Magic formation? No way... There must be some kind of mechanism behind it." 

"Eve, scan it." 

"Yes, Boss…scanning is done!" 

"Can you figure it out?" 

"Not at the moment, Boss. The energy signatures are strange, it seems to be being released by these runes." 

Arc closed his eyes and began to spread his energy that he learned by accident, and he found out he can see using his energy, and it's like a spiritual sense that depicted in some fictional novel he read when he was still a kid. 

He saw that the runes on the floor surrounding the obelisk are absorbing energy and sending it to the obelisk. 

"Boss, look at this!" 

Jem, who was standing in front of the obelisk, pointed at something. 

Looking from a distance, it's not visible, but close up, one can see that the obelisk has engraving all over it. But that's not where Jem is pointing. She was pointing at the base of the obelisk. 

"Land of Foh." Arc read. 

It was engraved using the language being used to date. 

"So they are using the same language as what they are using today." Said Wedge. 

"But the runes are something else... There are no such records in Adventurers Guild, or maybe our rank is too low, so we can't access it yet, but regardless of anything, this is a good find." Said Arc. 

Arc immediately released hundreds of construction droids and drones and ordered them to excavate the obelisk intact.  

And soon, hundreds of droids and drones are surrounding the obelisk digging its foundation without destroying any of the runes surrounding it. 

"We can't waste a lot of time here."  Said Arc. So he released thousands more to gather all that can be collected as quickly as possible.

Jem giggles. "Boss, if any archeologist saw this, they would definitely faint from anger.' 

Arc just shrugged. "We don't have a lot of time to waste studying all these ruins, so excavating it and bringing it to Specter for the study is much faster." 

"Right," said Wedge. 

Biggs just shakes his head, and Jem continues to giggle. 

Ruby appeared next to them soon with confusion in her eyes.  

"Boss, what's going on? Why are the droids excavating the place?" 

Arc faked a cough, from the embarrassment it was Jem, who answered. "Hehehe Boss just got bored, so he plans to excavate the whole place and send it to Specter for analysis..." 

Ruby just shakes her head and said nothing else. 

Ding! Hmmm... "Boss, one of the drones found some kind of mines..." Said Biggs as he received a report from a drone he released. 

Arc, who was embarrassed, immediately responded. "Let's check it out!" 

So they immediately make their way to the said drones. The said mine was located at the very edge of the ruins.

Arc looked around the area, "this is indeed a mining area. I wonder what they were mining here?" 

"Wedge released a mining drone and sent it to the mines for examination. "This will take a while, Boss." Said Wedge.

"Right, well then, let's leave this place to the drones and Droids... We need to look for the right ruins..." 

Everyone nodded. 

And so they left the ruins, not before releasing a huge number of logistics droids and returning to the swamps, Arc then orders Eve to take over the drones and scan the whole endless swamp. 

Arc chose the tallest tree as a place to camp. 50+ meters above ground Arc and the rest are camping. Ruby and Jem are preparing dinner, and Biggs and Wedge are securing the campsite as for Arc, he was watching the video sent by Eve. It's the fight against Marius and Darius… 

Arc was speechless watching the battle turn into a sports-like atmosphere... He only has a single response in his mind, WTF… 

Editor: King of Mortal.