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"Sage's Stele?"
Qin Ran spoke instinctively.
"Yes, Sage's Stele!"
Herbert nodded and sighed.
"What exactly is written on it?"
Qin Ran asked again.
When Herbert had first asked Qin Ran to destroy the Sage's Stele, Qin Ran had asked him about its contents, but Herbert had remained silent.
Even then, Qin Ran had been curious about the Sage's Stele.
As this dungeon world began, the Nightspawn and other monsters' obsession with the Sage's Stele rapidly turned Qin Ran's curiosity into countless speculations.
After all, an ordinary stone stele could not have drawn such attention from those monsters.
Herbert looked at Qin Ran, who was seeking answers, and a bitter smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
This time, however, Herbert did not continue to hide the truth.
"The Sage's Stele is divided into two parts, inscribed by two different people—one part is a warning, while the other is a clue."
"The one who wrote the warning was one of the Guardians of Aesop Ancient City, while the one who wrote the clue was also the person who founded Aesop Ancient City!"
"The warning recorded in detail everything the emperor of the Nick Dynasty did in pursuit of immortality and world domination: he had the empire's finest alchemists and potion masters study the secrets of other magical species and long-lived species, then transplant them into humans—Nightspawn and Monkey Monsters were merely insignificant products. Strictly speaking, they were all failures! The truly terrifying ones were... the successful products!"
"Those successful products not only became valuable experience for the emperor's final experiment, but also his most loyal guards. They made his rule over the entire world increasingly unshakable, and every rebel had only one path ahead of them: death!"
"And the