Clues

Finished gathering the information I need about the Gods, I went back to looking for ruins that could be related to them.

Thus starting another reading marathon that would last a few more hours.

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The days passed and the search for more clues continued incessantly.

"You found something?" As I was immersed in my reading, I heard a voice approaching me from behind as I slightly raised my eyes and saw a beautiful figure in black.

"Can you say that yes, has any progress" I replied simply.

"Oh! What kind of progress?" Neila asked.

"Follow me" I said as she got up and headed towards the back of the library where there was a big map on the wall.

"As you all already know, according to the words of the Moon Goddess, some ruins can give us clues about who we may be facing in the future and that all this may be related to a Fallen God"

"After digging through many of the books that depict the historical geography of the Five Kingdoms, I found traces of dozens of ruins distributed throughout this region of land"

"However, the number was too large and we would waste a lot of time visiting all of them, so I filtered them through the information I found and there are currently six of them that might be of help"

Pausing, I walked towards the map and affixed some thumbtacks in six different spots.

"Coincidentally, each of the ruins is located in each of the Realms and looking at their history they seem to be related to each other, the sixth is outside these lands, located in the neutral zone, outside the jurisdiction of any of the Emperors"

"I've already sent a warning to the leaders who are out to come back and split up to visit each one of them simultaneously to gather information, I feel this is the right way forward at the moment and we can discover something important with these trips"

Neila turned her gaze to me with wonder shining in her eyes as she exclaimed. "Wow, as expected from the Matriarch, quite efficient"

I was a little disconcerted with the way she addressed me, I still hadn't gotten used to the newly acquired title and besides Neila was like a sister to me so I said. "No need to call me Matriarch, just Elora is enough"

"No ma'am, we have to keep to etiquette" She said with resolution.

"So only when we're alone it's not necessary, I consider you a sister to me so please reconsider"

"*sigh* Since you insist, it's ok Elora" She replied with a smile.

We talked for a while longer before saying goodbye, it was time to take the next step!