Mu Daxian led Mao Feiyang through the Art Classroom, giving Lin Yi a chance to examine the carved pictures and inscriptions on its interior walls up close.
These carvings actually looked very much like works ancient people had carved to record certain events or myths and legends, using many pictographic symbols outside the Chinese system and some extremely abstract, impressionistic narrative techniques.
All four walls of the Art Classroom were covered in such reliefs. They did not look like the work of a single person, but what they depicted might have belonged to a system of stories with a common root.
These carved works culminated in the backdrop of the central stage, where both the reliefs and the sculptures were extremely exaggerated.
The scene resembled some battle, but the nonhuman side seemed to hold an overwhelming advantage...
It also resembled some ancient pilgrimage ritual, with countless people holding weapons or scepters facing a creature wreathed in clouds and mist.
But the part depicting that creature had been destroyed. Some strange runes remained on the surviving carvings, shaped like feathers or scales. Perhaps they had something to do with that creature...
Could what these reliefs recorded have something to do with that "Doomsday"? Something stirred in Lin Yi's mind. He had a suspicion, but no way to verify it.
"The reliefs inside the Art Classroom are as ancient as this Castle. Some teachers also say they might be older than the Castle itself-that the Castle's builders excavated them from some ruins and brought them here."
"There are also claims that these reliefs were actually created based on written descriptions in some document recording mysterious legends."
"They might have something to do with legends from the Maya civilization, or perhaps Norse mythology. There are plenty of interpretations, anyway."
"But whichever it is,