"The score used to seal Tot Musica is hidden here."
Despite the cats giving him a hard time, Gordon eventually led Xie Wen and the others into a dim underground ruin.
Klee Meow tossed several fireballs at the torches set around them, finally lighting up the vast underground space.
"What an ancient ruin!"
Robin's eyes lit up, and she instinctively took two steps forward.
Not only did the underground ruin contain strange murals and enormous stone statues, but it also housed a vast collection of books. Most importantly, the murals also used Ancient Script.
But as Robin approached the central area, red lights began glowing in the eyes of the stone statues standing around them.
Fortunately, Gordon quickly produced a badge shaped like a musical note. After several short beeps, the statues, which had only just begun assuming attacking stances, immediately fell still again.
Huh? Voice-controlled? Elegia actually had high-tech stuff like this?
Xie Wen looked in surprise at the statues, whose style bore some resemblance to the Zonai's. Beside him, Meowrah's eyes had long since lit up. If they hadn't belonged to someone else, she would have pounced on them and dismantled every last one already.
"These statues guard the score. Only the successive kings of Elegia can control them... But our ancestors never imagined that the score for Tot Musica would come out on its own after hearing Uta sing."
Unaware that a certain Little D-Roll had her eye on Elegia's inherited statues, Gordon explained things to Xie Wen while pointing the musical-note badge at the enormous mural on the ceiling.
Then the musical-note badge in his hand emitted a series of melodic beeps. In the abstract figure on the ceiling mural that seemed to represent Tot Musica, stone slabs around what were probably its eyes slid apart