Chapter 681

’Solus, how could we understand a dead language.’ Lith thought after replaying the events in his head until he was certain that it wasn’t just a hallucination.

’Not “we”, you did. I heard only gibberish until you translated it for me.’ Her answer hit Lith harder than everything he had witnessed so far. He even asked Phloria and the Professors, but they confirmed to him that all they heard was unknown words.

That bit of news shocked Lith. The last thing he needed was more unanswered questions.

The door to the second underground floor was ripped off as well, but the signs of struggle stopped halfway through the U shaped corridor. The creature’s limited range of action had prevented it from conquering the whole building.

The floor was empty, only corpses remained and this time they all belonged to prisoners that the Odi had left locked inside their cells. The administrative office was intact, so while the language experts studied the medical reports, the others examined the bodies.

The first thing they noticed was that once again the cells were small and cramped with up to six beds. Lith noticed that some of the inmates had runes of power surgically carved over their skeletons. Most of them, however, shown bite marks and the only clean bones were as brittle as breadsticks.