The first murals inscribed upon the wall depicted seven humans. He wasn’t sure if they were humans but they all looked like one but what was different about them was that they were holding something.
The sun. Northern could tell it was the sun because a larger version of what they were carrying sat far above their heads and shone its light across to all.
The next mural made Northern’s jaw drop.
With what looked like a stick, the much larger sun was struck by another human.
There was a resemblance with this human. It wore the same tunic on its waist as it did in the same chamber before and for some reason, its eyes was painted black…
Northern was just observing that feature but also remembered he had seen something like that in the chamber he was coming from.
Northern took a second to look into the eyes of the humanoid mural.
Strangely, he felt like he was being sucked in by a deep and vast emptiness.
The feeling of almost losing himself. Again.
Northern blinked and looked at the black hand wraps that covered his palm and back hand.
‘Nah, that can’t be the case.’
The hand wraps were supposed to ward off any kind of mental attack on him. Either the wrap was a fake or what happened there was not a mental attack. Or an attack at all.
Its emptiness was just captivating.
‘I feel drawn to it…’
Northern spent a couple of minutes looking at it but avoided going close, then he turned to the other murals and began to study them too.
After the destruction of the large sun, the other seven sun bearers, brought their sun together to create another sun.
Afterwards, there was a confrontation between them and the sun destroyer.
A battle that resulted in their defeat.
Then a being manifested itself from the sun.
Alongside seven maidens.
That was where the first one had ended.
Northern looked around the wall, there were other inscribed symbols and things… he didn’t know, but this was the only imagery depiction.
It followed a straight line along the wall that held the sculpture of the lady carrying an overflowing water.
Looking back one last time, Northern jumped out through the window, he had to carefully climb the cliff then entered the next chamber through the window.
And began to study its murals too.
From this point, the maidens where chained and standing before the sun destroyer.
The man that manifested from the sun was floating above the maidens.
Then the next mural had the maidens putting a chain on the sun destroyer’s wrist.
From that point, they began to walk forward.
Northern followed through, this time he took the stairs back up to the third building, they were still walking.
Then the fourth chamber which was the building he had first entered. They were still working.
‘Where the hell are they taking him to?’ Northern questioned inwardly as he left the chamber and climbed the stairs to the fifth one.
“Honestly, what had happened down there was a bit strange,” he spoke to himself as he walked.
The mural at the ground level depicted the man that came out of the sun and this sun destroyer were about to enter combat.
Then he brought out maidens.
And the sun destroyer was unable to react?
Why?
Northern sighed as he stopped in front of the fifth doorway.
‘There’s either something twisted that happened there or the murals are incomplete’
He then entered and went on to inspect the next one.
“As expected, they are still walking”
From this fifth chamber, there was only two chambers remaining to reach before the building that perched atop the cliff.
Only two…
Northern’s eyes suddenly widened.
He leaned closer and counted the maidens walking with the sun destroyer.
Upon realizing it, he let out a shout:
“Three!! Three!!! How could I have missed it!”
He ran out in haste, almost slipping as he scuttled down the stairs and checked the chamber before.
It was the same, only four maidens made it there. Northern looked down.
‘I probably don’t have to reach those places to know.’
The maidens reduced as the journey to the top of the cliff went forth.
Although, Northern very much guessed that this was not a literal journey to the top of the temple since it was a mural.
He assumed it was telling that story.
And every chamber is a checkpoint of their journey.
At every checkpoint, maidens are reduced.
‘Why? What is happening to the maidens?’ Northern was curious.
His eyes scaled up, to the highest building on the cliff. Somehow he felt like he was going to find an answer there.
And because of that he just wanted to jump the next two maidens and go straight to the temple to find out what was going to happen.
But Northern was a very meticulous person when it came to details.
With how enthusiastic he was about seeing what happened in the highest cave, he warded off the feel and made sure to check the last two chambers.
By the time he left the last one before the main temple.
Only the sun destroyer was left.
But strangely enough, he was still walking.
‘The maids are all gone, shouldn’t you be breaking free from that chain now and wreaking havoc or maybe destroying the moon?’
Northern had so many questions racing through his mind.
What exactly did the sun man do?
What are these maidens?
Why did they keep disappearing?
Why did the fight not happen because they appeared.
And so many more.
Northern suspected that these maidens could have been chain bearers for the sun destroyer but that postulation did not make sense to him.
Reason being that… they were disappearing.
Northern scratched his head and looked up to the last building.
His whole body was tingling with anticipation. Maybe because it had been so long since he had fun like this, he was so excited.
Northern used to love the stories his mother told him, although then he was only using them to pry for information.
His eyes grew somber for a moment.
‘I miss mom… Shin…’
A second later, rheu refocused and creased with determination.
The only thing that stood between him and the temple was the long winding stairs that led to the top of the cliff.
Northern smacked his lips and moved forward, muttering:
“Crap, I think I’m hating stairs already.”