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After resting for a while, the group immediately continued on their way. As the light gradually brightened, they arrived at a spacious palace.

The palace interior wasn't particularly elaborate, but the surrounding murals were much clearer. Following the murals, they finally saw the enormous and strange statue that the people who had visited before had described.

Various animal sculptures stand in this spacious palace, each one depicted with remarkable lifelike detail. Almost everyone is awestruck by this miraculous sight, for the statues are so well preserved despite the palace being buried underground.

A young scholar looked at the statues, touched them with great interest, carefully examined them, and then turned to say, "These statues are strange. They look like they're carved from ordinary bricks and stones. But you can't actually touch them; it's as if some transparent force covers their surface."

Several disciplinary officers stepped forward to inspect the statue, and Al-Hysen reached out and touched it. Even with gloves on, he could clearly feel that the transparent power covering the statue undulated with its surface, fitting perfectly.

"Elheisen, come here."

Seno stood beneath a statue in the center, where a monument bore inscriptions he couldn't decipher. Unfortunately, unlike the statue, the monument wasn't enveloped in a transparent force. Consequently, the inscriptions were blurred and incomplete.

Upon hearing Seno's words, Elhesen turned and released the statue he was examining. As he approached Seno, Seno gestured for him to look at the broken monument. Elhesen stood before the monument and examined it carefully.

The inscription on the stele was so blurry that Elhesen could only observe it carefully and try to replicate the content without damaging the stele.

Several scholars from the group also came over, trying to help Elhesen. Fortunately, the scholars that Sino had specifically found were very reliable, and they obtained some of the ancient text on the stele in a short time.

The ancient texts obtained were few, just a few scattered sentences and words. The general meaning was: this is a place of divine blessing, but the method of blessing wasn't clearly explained, only pointing to the statue. It also mentioned how to refuse this blessing: one must find holy water and drink it. The rest were words of praise for the gods.

Seeing a solution, Elhesen breathed a sigh of relief. He had carefully examined all the murals along the way. The murals were intricate and rich in content, but what struck him most was that the blessings of the gods were not something everyone could bear. Those who could not bear them would go mad and eventually die.

Perhaps because his emotions had relaxed somewhat, Elhesen felt his mind also relax, and his consciousness became drowsy. But in an instant, he sensed that this drowsiness was not right, and Elhesen used his hands to support himself. But the drowsiness came suddenly, and in his last moments of consciousness, everyone collapsed one after another.

When Al-Hysen woke up, he first sensed that something was wrong with his body. Before he could check himself, he saw Seno walking towards him in a cloak.

"what happened?"

Elhesen asked Seno, but Seno shook his head. "I just woke up too. I checked. Everyone was unconscious for a while, and we don't know how much time has passed. But everyone has shown varying degrees of physical changes."

Elheisen looked around at the people. The incident had happened so suddenly; many had collapsed instantly. His gaze swept across the crowd; a group of people with animal ears lay sprawled on the ground. Of course, some also had scales.

"Waaaaah, waaaah."

A young female scholar, who had just woken up, touched her cheek and cried uncontrollably, feeling extremely frustrated. When Seno and Elhesen looked over, another scholar was already comforting her.

"Are you alright, Nina? Don't cry." The scholar, who had just woken up, hurriedly wiped away the little girl's tears.

The little girl cried, feeling very wronged. "I shouldn't have been curious about what animal I would be if I turned into a beastman. How could it be a snake?"

"It's okay, it's okay, Nina is the prettiest, she looks good even like this..."

One by one, the unconscious people woke up, and the once quiet room became noisy. Everyone was examining their transformed beast forms, some happy, some worried.

Elhesen glanced at the long, greyish-white tail protruding from his clothes—like a leopard's tail, greyish-white—a snow leopard? He touched his ear, and Elhesen involuntarily twitched, feeling a strange sensation. Was this what it felt like when he touched Kavi's ear?

Then, Elhesen stared at the cloak on Seno's body. Seno felt a little embarrassed by his gaze. Elhesen's ambiguous smile made Seno pull down the brim of the cloak.

Finally, Seno pulled down his cloak, revealing his ears. "Heh, Jackal, I'm starting to wonder about Tinari's reaction." Elheisen glanced at Seno, left his assessment, and then went to check out the surroundings.

Seno was left standing there, grieving. Why had he transformed into a jackal after his beast form? That was the perfect enemy of the lemur! What if the Tinari ignored him?

Meanwhile, Tinari, who was examining a patient, suddenly felt a chill, and his tail bristled. Kavi, who was tidying up documents beside Tinari, was baffled by his reaction.

"What's wrong, Tinari? Are you cold?"

Tinari hugged his tail and smoothed it down, looking at Kavi with a worried expression. "I don't know. I suddenly have a bad feeling. Could it be that one of the patients is about to deteriorate?" Then Tinari swiftly entered the ward and began to examine each of the patients one by one.

In the underground ruins.

Sino didn't grieve for long, as there were more important matters to attend to. Elhesen gathered information, while Sino organized the team; together, they obtained the current situation.

Everyone has developed some form of bestiality. Some people have only a very slight degree of bestiality, with only a few animalistic features on their bodies. Others have a higher degree of bestiality, with many of the animalistic features covering their bodies.

The animal forms after transformation are numerous, mostly mammals. These include common wild animals such as cats, foxes, and leopards... Only one person is a snake covered in scales—the little girl who was just crying. Of course, she still can't accept it, but she's controlling her emotions so as not to cause trouble for the team.

“The people who came in before us were in the same situation,” Seno summarized to Elhesen.

Elhesen nodded to indicate that he understood. "We need to find the spring mentioned on the monument so that we can restore it to its original state."