章 59: Island

Broly quickly approached the island to check it out. As he came closer, he seemed to have entered some kind of barrier. The temperature inside was around 20 Celsius.

Quite the contrast to the scorching heat outside, Broly thought. He landed on the island and didn't feel any different than if he had landed in any other forest.

The feeling he had before, came back. It was urging him into one direction. So of course, he went the other way. If his feelings urged him to go there, he probably should go there, but he didn't want to miss out on any other stuff that might be on this island.

He blasted through the forest and searched every corner in highspeed. It didn't take him a minute to have a rough layout of the island. It didn't take so short because the island was small but because Broly was incredibly fast.

Being confident that he didn't miss anything, he headed towards the direction that attracted him. It didn't take him long to see what his destination was. It was a 30-meter-high monumental building with colonnade on all sides, it reminded Broly of an ancient Greek temple.

He stepped inside and was greeted by a big stained-glass window, depicting 3 different shapes. At the bottom on the same level was a red real-life heart, a green humanoid body and a blue sun. Above those three figures, was a golden triangle, at the very top.

Broly didn't know why but he could feel a distinct connection between him and the heart. Looking down from the window, he saw a staircase leading into the ground. He looked around this temple but didn't find anything else in the room.

He started walking down the stairs until he was enveloped in complete darkness. He snapped his fingers and a green sphere appeared inside his hand. He let the sphere fly ahead, guiding the way for him. He walked down for a few minutes, until he reached the bottom of the stairs. He looked ahead and only saw a single tunnel ahead. The tunnel was about 2 meters wide and 3 meters high. It was a bit small for him, if he wanted to, he could touch the ceiling with his height.

He walked for a minute until a picture illuminated the tunnel in the front. He dispersed his ki sphere and stood next to the picture looking at what was shown. It pictured a blue planet enclosed by a triangle made out of a red heart, a green humanoid and a blue sun. They were the same as the ones in the temple above.

He walked further down the tunnel only to find another picture with the same planet but with a blue-whitish figure standing above the world with his arms behind his back. He didn't notice this at first, but the colors were slightly pulsating, and he couldn't help but touch it.

As soon as he did the figure seemed to be brought to life. It started to raise his arms and from him a white light spread and covered the whole planet. The light dimmed down, and the previous unmoving picture was shown again. He thought for a moment and turned back, headed to the first picture and as he thought the colors were pulsating as well. He touched the heart and suddenly shadows of humanoids appeared on the planet. It grew to a degree that it filled the displayed planet until it reverted back again.

He headed down the tunnel again, until he reached the third picture and the next ones. In total there were 8 pictures depicting a different scene. From his understanding, it should be the history of this planet and their arrival in this universe.

First the era of bliss where the races on the planet prospered until a figure came by and tried to destroy the planet. With the protection of those three symbols the planet was saved but the destroyed space sucked their planet in and traversed the distorted space.

The whole travel they were covered in the lights of the three symbols, but on their way the symbols started cracking and falling apart on the journey, vanishing into the distorted space. Only a fragment of the red heart remained on the planet, while the rest disappeared.

Considering what the city lord had told him about the Origin Crystals, those three symbols seemingly represented those crystals. A Blood, Spirit and Energy Crystal. He could tell that the heart was the blood crystal, as for the others he interpreted the sun as the energy crystal and the humanoid as the spirit one. It now also made sense why he would feel a slight connection with the heart, as he had absorbed a fragment of it.

After observing the last picture, he walked through the tunnel until a dim yellowish light brightened the end of the tunnel. The tunnel opened into a big hall with countless lights at the ceiling illuminating the room. He looked at the ceiling which were filled with dots. It was mostly white dots, but some dots had the colors of the symbols. There were about three of every color scattered over the ceiling.

The biggest symbol was in the middle, shining brightly in a red hue. He analyzed it before his eyes widened.

'These dots they are not randomly arranged. This- this pictures a star map! The big red dot is this planet. That means that the other fragments still exists?? No. Maybe. Although it may represent where the fragments used to be, it doesn't mean they still exist.'

Broly pondered for a bit before taking out a small thin rectangle, he stretched the rectangle to the size of a smartphone and hold it up. With a tap the ceiling was photographed and displayed on this tablet like device.

This thing acted as a camera and a notebook which he brought for his journey. He wanted to have something he could keep as a reference in the future. When he was inspired by something, he would take a picture of it, so he could look at it again later.

He looked at the picture he made and was satisfied with it. In the future he would visit those planets in search of those fragments. As he thought about it, he couldn't help but smile which quickly turned into a frown.

'This is really a great opportunity to increase one's abilities and strength but why would they just leave it here for everyone to review? Did they want others to find it? They seemed to worship those crystals, it would made sense if they destroyed every evidence of their location, so they wouldn't be snatched away by others. Well. Whatever suits them. I will only benefit of their selflessness.'

He looked around the hall and couldn't find anything else besides 3 different pictures of humanoid bodies with threads running through them. He approached the red one and took a close look. With the second, he became more and more convinced that this depicted the method to absorb. Without hesitation he moved to the other pictures and realized that even though they are different, they had some similarities. It was clear that this showed the method to absorb the other crystals.

Broly couldn't hold his joy anymore as he laughed out loud, his laugh echoed in the hall and down the tunnel. He quickly took some pictures and burned those methods into his memory. As he only would have to follow the flow, he quickly remembered them all. Now sure that there wasn't anything left of interest, he quickly went outside.

Sensing nothing unusual, he flew up and out of the barrier. He looked back and saw the island being slowly flooded by lava.