In Sickness And In Health (Yandere M. Genius x F. Reader x Yandere M. Prince)

Chapter 51: Discovery

Ruins. No matter what, the place in front of her was nothing but ruins. What used to be wasn't much, but it was surely more than what was there now. All of the baskets they spent weeks at a time to make had been toppled over, frayed and chewed through. Even all of the stones that they had carved had cracked, some of them shattered on the ground. The only thing that looked relatively untouched was the place the Sun God Sect claimed was a shrine.

In order to have reached the peak, it was supposed to be necessary to walk up countless steps. The steps would randomly trigger traps that set an intruder back to the base of the mountain or push them off of the ledge to their death. The mists that surrounded the mountain led to a lot of deaths, too, but it was all useless when they just flew up the mountain. A helicopter did wonders, apparently. Humans were weak, but they could make up for their failings by inventing.

The paragons of the Sun God Sect had already set up their tents and technology to date the relics. They might have walked away disappointed to find the recent things created. Then again, Etisian always liked to keep around things from the past. 

A few of the paragons were looking closely at the writing on the cave walls, having difficulty. Even she had a tough time reading quite a few of them. It would take them months to decipher just one. By design, the writing was meant to confuse and stall intruders. They didn't even know they were reading her name.

(Y/n) walked through slowly, observing everything with a frown. She reached out to touch one of the lanterns, narrowing her eyes when a cockroach began scurrying around inside of it. Irritated that something else had moved into something she had painstakingly made with her father, she grabbed the lantern and crushed it in her hands, roach and all. The girl then threw it to her feet, leaving it behind, but stepping into quite a few glares given to her by the paragons. Some began to question why she was even there if she was going to ruin priceless artifacts. But when they saw Orion on her heel, they could say nothing more.

Orion served his purpose, warding people off of her as she explored. No one was going to directly challenge the son of the Oracle, nor the direct descendant of their great goddess. That pretty much let the younger girl do whatever she wanted. Of course, it was her home in the first place, but they didn't know that, and she wasn't keen on letting them figure it out. She was only there to halt their progress, so whatever she did to make them turn heads, the better.

"This is incredible," Presley shivered, locking his hands together in awe, "And how did you discover that this was a place related to the Sun God?"

"These symbols right here," Cadmus mumbled, pointing to a carving with the word "fire" and then "sky", "We've learned that they mean sun. And this one means deity."

No, it didn't. The symbol the man was pointing to meant something else. Perhaps a lot of species confused the two, but it definitely did not mean "sun god" and it definitely was not a welcoming message. It was a warning. Etisian hated fire spirits with a passion. The girl scoffed as she thought how he would react to being misunderstood as one. He would have thrown everyone off the ledge. Then again, he would have done that just for them being there. He hated intruders.

"Have there been any important discoveries?"

"Everything is important if it relates to the Sun God. But, I guess, the most interesting thing we've found are these writings. We'll have to translate them slowly, but they'll hopefully show us something new."

"What about murals? Have there been any found?"

"Yes. There are some to the right of the shrine. Oh, but be careful. They're right over a ledge."

Presley took a nervous look at Orion before rushing off, clearly having a vested interest in the subject. Sona and Celith were behind (Y/n), only trying to assess her personal connection to the area. The former hadn't directly told him that the area was important to her, but, based on her actions, he assumed it must be something akin to that. After all, unless it pertained to her past, she didn't show so much spontaneous panic. The android tried to be of use to her as best as he could, but found it difficult to determine her true goal. Celith was just following because he liked her.