As soon as Alex's eyes fell on the Black Stele, he unintentionally read some of the words that were on it. As that happened, an Intent seemed to enter his mind to fight him.
Alex fought back with his own Intent and easily defeated it. Still, feeling how strong the Intent of the god that had created this black stele was, he couldn't help but feel nervous about what would happen when he seriously decided to read it.
For that, he first needed to pull the black stele out of the ground first.
Alex had yet to check just how large this black stele was underneath the ground. Because of the Intent, he didn't dare use his spiritual sense recklessly around it. He would just have to pull it out and check for himself how large the black stele actually was.