Fawcett gathered the frozen soul fragments within his body. Those fragments contained the memories of the body's original owner, but Fawcett merely viewed them rather than merging with them.
The Reincarnation Ritual brought someone back to life by letting them occupy a corpse, but it could not steal memories. Had some being in the Eternal Frost Glacier not frozen their souls, Fawcett would not have been able to examine the memories within them.
Sebas Jones had been an ordinary boy from Walkervis with a reasonably comfortable family background. He had been exceptionally sensitive to language and writing since childhood, mastering several languages at a young age and developing a deep interest in ancient scripts. His command of multiple languages had earned him admission to Rosen University in Walkervis while he was still very young. He could certainly have been called a young genius.
Because of his interest in ancient scripts, however, he had transferred to Rosen University's Archaeology Department earlier that year. His supervisor had been Professor Robert, a renowned archaeologist.
Two months earlier, the six of them had formed a team and accompanied Professor Robert to a small town called Imoyins. The villagers there had reportedly discovered an ancient tomb. By the time the archaeological team arrived, its gold and silver artifacts had already been stolen, though fortunately, a few things remained.
Fawcett felt his chest and pulled a reddish-brown notebook from inside his clothes.
"Julius's notes."
They had secretly taken this notebook from the tomb. Together, they had concealed it from their supervisor and deciphered its contents themselves, ultimately meeting their deaths.
Fawcett looked at the writing and drawings in the notebook, and an inexplicable sense of familiarity welled up within him.
Although Fawcett did not recognize the writing, he could roughly guess its meaning. This had nothing