บท 170: A key to the past

By now, Xander was starting to lose track of all the mysterious artifacts he had collected so far. He remembered he had never used the special scroll he had acquired from the last vision he had entered. And now another new relic had been added to his collection.

Xander studied the ring carefully under his scrutinizing gaze, trying to learn more about it, but it wasn't like anything he'd seen before. Those symbols engraved on its underside depicted the different elements such as fire, water, earth, and shadow, but the inscription running alongside it was in an unknown language.

The two sapphires embedded on top looked almost identical, with the left one slightly chipped at the corners. It seemed like the ring had been pressed repeatedly against a hard surface which also explained the scratches on its sides.

"What kind of ring are you? And why the hell does a Priestess need a relic from the Soulscape?"