"Shakyamuni said there are ten. That leaves four we haven't found yet."
Jade went quiet for the moment. This discussion was bringing them a little closer to answers... and yet he couldn't bring himself to be happy about it, knowing that the suspicion that had grown in his mind the moment he saw the statues downstairs was about as good as confirmed.
"She also said the black crystals we've encountered once belonged to Heroes who lost their minds trying to communicate with an entity beyond their comprehension. Moreover, the crystals were originally found at the Crystal of Fire, the exact same place the four Heroes ended the last cycle." He turned to the Sage, his expression grim. "That was how they restarted the cycle, then. By communicating with the Calamity itself, even though it cost them their sanity."
Professor Nebilim, too. True, it wasn't the Nebilim from his version of Auldrant, but knowing what kind of end she'd met was still a bitter thing to swallow.
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Jade went quiet for the moment. This discussion was bringing them a little closer to answers... and yet he couldn't bring himself to be happy about it, knowing that the suspicion that had grown in his mind the moment he saw the statues downstairs was about as good as confirmed.
"She also said the black crystals we've encountered once belonged to Heroes who lost their minds trying to communicate with an entity beyond their comprehension. Moreover, the crystals were originally found at the Crystal of Fire, the exact same place the four Heroes ended the last cycle." He turned to the Sage, his expression grim. "That was how they restarted the cycle, then. By communicating with the Calamity itself, even though it cost them their sanity."
Professor Nebilim, too. True, it wasn't the Nebilim from his version of Auldrant, but knowing what kind of end she'd met was still a bitter thing to swallow.