Lin Mu wondered what it meant for a stele that was specifically meant to resist the influence of demonic and other negative beings to have the Shamanic Script of the same demon race on it.
"The Demon Race has several languages of its own, and is spread over many worlds. This script though, is a Shamanic Version of their own language." Xukong replied. "Though the strange part is that it is written on a stele of White Sun Glazed Platinum. It is not the kind of metal that the Demon Race would use." He stated.
"That does seem strange." Lin Mu could see the contradiction.
They needed to know more, thus Lin Mu asked if Xukong could translate it for him.
"I can try it. Though I don't know how accurate it will be. Shamanic scrips like these often need more context to read accurately as several of the characters can have either the same meanings or multiple meanings." Xukong replied.
"That'll be fine. We just need to tell them whatever this is. The accuracy of it doesn't matter to us much." Lin Mu was not concerned about that.
He knew that if the owner of the Tyrant Bull Marrow had asked people to appraise the stele, they might also have a way to confirm the information. Thus, they simply needed to tell them what they knew and that'll be the end of it.
"Let's see…" Xukong started to read the text.
It told of a woman that had been betrayed by her clan as well as her kingdom. She was once a human too, but after the betrayal decided to join the opposing side of the Demons. And these were no normal demons, either.
These were the Thorn Rage Demons!
She gave up her humanity and took up the mantel of the Demon Queen. Her power grew greatly and she mounted an offense against those who had betrayed her, which was the human race.
The conflict lasted a long time, after which the human race started to prevail due to their stronger experts. Not wanting to lose, The Demon Queen took a drastic step.
She tricked the Thorn Rage Demons and sacrificed them as well, taking away their power and turning them into undead skeletons!
She absorbed the power of the Thorn Rage Demons that were sacrificed and used the undead army to wage a final war. This allowed the Demon Queen to kill off half of the human army too, but then a new variable arrived.
Her action of sacrificing the Thorn Rage Demons ended up awakening the ancestral spirit of the Demon tribe. The spirit cursed her and sealed her power, allowing the humans to finally defeat her.
The Ancestral Spirit of the Demon Tribe, also scared away the humans thought before disappearing.
The humans retreated but returned some time later. This time they met the surviving tribe of the Demons, warning them of dire actions if they tried to retaliate. The surviving Demon Tribe wasn't that of the Thorn Rage Demons, but of the Ram Horn Demons.
The Ram Horn Demon tribe thus asked for a treaty to which the humans agreed.
To commemorate that treaty, this stele was carved and kept in the land of the Demons. It would stay standing without being corroded by the energies and still be able to be read by the demonic tribes of the future.
The stele carried the warning for the Demonic Tribes. That if they trust a betrayer, they would get betrayed too!
"Just how long ago was this?" Lin Mu wondered.
"It has hard to tell. The stele does not mention any dates." Xukong replied.
"Hmm…" After thinking for a bit, Lin Mu wondered if there was another side to it.
He picked up the stele effortlessly and looked on the back, finding there to be nothing. It was plain and there were no carvings on it.
"Nothing here." Lin Mu muttered.
"We've already checked it several times. There's just the carvings on the front and no other information. There are no secrets inside it either." Steward Ku clarified.
"Then can you tell me where this was found?" Lin Mu questioned next. "I'll be easier to know the context more, if I know where this came from." He added.
Hearing this, the steward furrowed his brows.
"I cannot say that. Or rather, I do not know it either. Only my lord knows." The steward replied.
"Then do you at least know if this was found in the Rust Sky world itself?" Lin Mu would be fine with that too.
"Yes. I can confirm that it was found in the Rust Sky world." The steward nodded his head with confidence.
"Found in the Rust Sky world, then considering the demon tribes…" Lin Mu muttered to himself trying to calculate a time line.
Unlike the others, Lin Mu knew some secrets that were erased from the history of the Rust Sky world. He knew this due to the Haima Tribe and the Deep Sapphire City's records.
While he didn't know the exact years or the events, he could still list them chronologically.
'We already know that Demons were the natives of the Rust Sky world too. But they were eradicated by the humans a long time ago. This was even before the time of the Haima tribe. And if there were multiple demon tribes, then this must have been even before the Desolate Blood Battlefield became what it is today.' Lin Mu analyzed it all.
After having concluded this, Lin Mu wondered if he could figure out more by learning more about the Demonic Tribes.
"Senior, do you know of these two demonic tribes?" Lin Mu questioned.
"The two tribes mentioned in this are relatively common members of the Demonic Race. They can be found on multiple worlds too." Xukong said, much to Lin Mu's relief.
Lin Mu had thought that Xukong might not know about the tribes, since there were simply too many of them.
"Then can you tell me more about them?" Lin Mu requested.
