Chapitre 258: Chapter 262 Captain Duncan's Gift

In the voluminous document brought by Morris, only a short section was connected to the mysterious symbol—and that symbol was just an inconspicuous part of that section. The author of the document had not devoted a single stroke to interpret the symbol or the relief patterns surrounding it.

Duncan and Morris could only analyze it through the details presented in the manuscript illustrations, tentatively identifying the shattered cross surrounded by a hexagonal outline as a religious symbol or scholarly emblem from the time of the ancient kingdom.

Duncan slowly closed the heavy tome.

From a rational perspective, Morris believed that the ascetics who visited Homeloss a century ago couldn't possibly be descendants of the Ancient Crete Kingdom—a group of hermits passing down traditions over ten thousand years in the chaotic and dangerous deep-sea era was nearly impossible. From a rigorous scholarly standpoint, he couldn't hastily make this assumption without further evidence.