Ruger looked at him. Now that he knew who the man was and where he had come from, he understood why his speech had sounded so strange. It was not just that the jumble of Faith Power had affected his mind; he had yet to fully adapt to the way people spoke here.
But that raised another question. The young man, the elder, the lady, and the child who dreamed of charging into battle as a knight had all spoken fluently.
Ruger thought it over. That meant those people had originally belonged to the Cavern World. Of course, various signs suggested they might no longer be normal people. Then there was this place itself. If he knew what it was, he could probably make sense of everything.
"In our homeland, when our final moment came, we would stand in our homeland. Our bodies would crystallize into the ground, turning deep yellow and continuing to grow into new food. Our intangible hearts would float out and become materials for the strong to build their inner cities. They could go on living in those inner cities. When friends and family missed them, they could temporarily crystallize their bodies into the ground and let their own hearts float out to visit them in the inner cities... There is no inner city here that can hold me anymore. I am the last inner city, and there will never be another new inner city..."
Tears streamed down the man's face, surprising even him, as he spoke in fits and starts.
Ruger blinked.
So they were a kind of translucent crystal people? There might be some differences, but they probably looked something like that. Yet their true essence was a strange kind of spiritual entity.
What was even stranger was that they could live in a