Chapter 3261: The Age of Deception
"Wonder buildings were part of a higher ritual?" Guta Lace asked in surprise. "So Tunita built the wonder that was Crystal City to prepare for a large-scale ritual?"
Gleipnir glanced at Guta Lace and said flatly, "Whether that was the case, you would find out if you kept listening."
With that, Gleipnir changed the subject and began telling the story tied to the third puzzle piece—"Resonance of the Sacred Corpse Crystal."
"The Sacred Corpse Crystal—I assume you have all heard of it."
"To put it plainly, Sacred Corpse Crystals were the corpses of the Crystal-Eyed Race."
The Crystal-Eyed Race had very distinct features. Their skin resembled transparent glass, their flesh and blood colorless liquid gold, and their bones ice pillars rising from frozen earth. Their entire bodies seemed to be formed from ice crystals.
And that was indeed the case. Ordinary people underwent decay after death, returning to the void. The Crystal-Eyed Race was different. After death, they became transparent, human-shaped crystals.
Those transparent crystals were the so-called "Sacred Corpse Crystals."
"When Tunita first built Crystal City, construction was perfectly ordinary. Everfrozen Soil formed the foundation, Unmelting Ice the walls, Inextinguishable Frost the adornments... But as construction neared its end, Tunita suddenly issued a new demand to the Council of Elders."
Tunita's order was strange. When every member of the Council of Elders saw it, their first instinct was to refuse.
Because Tunita's order was this—henceforth, all Sacred Corpse Crystals formed from the newly dead would be fused into the walls as materials for building Crystal City.
Sacred Corpse Crystals were the corpses of the Crystal-Eyed Race. Though the Crystal-Eyed Race looked vastly different from humans, their attitude toward the dead had initially been much the same.
The Council of Elders unanimously agreed that