Chapter: 553

There were no obvious clues around, and nothing else on the otherwise smooth monolith, so for now Jay only had one choice: to move forward.

“I will just have to find my own answers” Jay looked towards the fifth pyramid.

Once again the party crept through the destroyed statues and eventually got to the pyramid entrance.

A short staircase led to the flat entrance area, which was lined by white pillars on either side. The pyramid was made from the black stone but the floor was made from the upgraded white stone.

Compared to the rest of the weathered pyramid, the white stone seemed relatively new.

Jay and his party ventured into the large entrance area, each of their steps making echoing noises. It was akin to a grand cave they stumbled into.

Soon it became darker and they found themselves at the bottom of another staircase, yet this time there was light at the top peeking down towards them.

“Let’s go slowly.” Jay whispered, sending his skeletons up further ahead of them.

The staircase was long, wide, and the roof was high. It was like scaling a small mountain as they went upwards and even had to stop a few times, taking a rest and eating some travel rations.

Finally, fifty minutes later, they reached the top.

The room was majestic, massive, and dazzling; streams of light came in from somewhere in the ceiling, lighting up the entire room as it bounced off white pillars and the white polished floor.

It was an understatement to say the room was massive; at a glance, Jay guessed that it could have fit the whole of Losla in it.

“Hmm, it’s bigger on the inside?” Jay thought as he looked around.

While the pyramids were massive, they did just walk up the stairs for a long time, so it was hard to tell if there was some sort of dimension-type magic at play. Each pyramid since the first one only got bigger and bigger, so Jay couldn’t be sure.

“Oh well.” he shrugged, not thinking too deeply about it. It wasn’t like it mattered too much after all.

Large pillars lined each wall, each as wide as the white gate they just passed through, and each of them engraved with imagery of plants, trees, flowers, horses, glade deer and all manner of life; even a snake raven was depicted among some other creatures Jay had never seen.

Jay and Anya could only look around in awe at the craftsmanship.

Truly, it seemed that the craftsman had spent hundreds of years on this – and knowing the longevity of the statues, it probably did.

“Surely they would have told me about this…” Anya gasped, looking around the room.

“Eyes forward.” Jay whispered, pointing to the middle of the room.

In the middle of the room were three thrones on an elevated platform, overlooking all things below them.

The large throne in the middle which was the size of a house, decorated with complex patterns using the white and black stone. Even from here they could tell it demanded respect.

Jay and Anya approached slowly, trying to look out for any traps or tricks. Like everything in this dungeon, nothing was straight-forward.

They slowed down as they approached, seeing figures in each throne, and the largest one was the easiest to see.

In the large throne sat a slender, tall statue. It was made from blackstone like all the others – though it seemed that much of its armour had been gently chipped away, replaced with some new white stone pieces to cover up the unsightly stone masonry work.