Myths that combined lovers and sculptures were far from rare. The most typical was the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea.
Pygmalion was a king and an accomplished sculptor.
He carved a beautiful maiden from ivory, fell deeply in love with her, and named her Galatea.
In the original myth, Pygmalion prayed to Aphrodite, the goddess of love, asking for Galatea to become his wife. Moved by his sincerity, the goddess cast a spell that brought the statue to life, and Pygmalion and Galatea eventually married.
But in a darker version derived from later literature, the goddess of love demanded that Pygmalion water the sculpture with his own blood. In the end, Pygmalion sacrificed himself for his love and died from weakness, while the sculpture remained nothing more than a sculpture forever.
Xie De stood with his hands at his sides, looking down at the inscriptions in the temple while 455 translated them.
455 pondered aloud, "They're mostly tragic but romantic stories about love recorded in myths and legends. Why would this place have these things carved into it?"
"Legends about love? Romance?" Xie De immediately thought of the SS-Rank Instance in F Country that 730 had mentioned before-Mad Romance.
Almost all the instances that had been released were impossible to trace back to their origins. That was why 730 had been unable to crack them immediately: it couldn't find what had caused them.
Xie De suspected that nearly all these instances were the result of the Laboratory colluding with demons in Hell, who had used certain means to appear in the Real World. There was at least an eighty percent connection between the causes of these instances and Hell.
Xie De stepped forward and circled the inscriptions a few times, examining the material. It was ordinary marble, but the