The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family, Pegaz [learn to read books txt] 📗

basis for half a mile before any flora appeared. Even then, there were only a few species that could survive the heat caused by the lava.

His Scan couldn’t find any living creatures at all, not even insects.

In the middle of the large island was a giant mountain. John was flying over a mile in the air, yet the mountain still towered him. Looking up, the mountain passed the clouds and kept going.

John lowered his altitude and came to its base.

The old map that I bought from the auction doesn’t show this mountain on the island, but the maps from the Adventurers’ Guild shows it. No wonder it took over thirty years for the system to finish its analysis.

The maps from the Adventurers’ Guild show a few smaller islands around this one, but there aren’t any. Does that mean the lava’s rising?

If this mountain isn’t on the ancient map, then that means the clue to transcending must’ve been underground. Did the rising mountain bring that underground clue aboveground?

John flew close around the base of the mountain while looking in his Scan, trying to pick up a hidden cave or a part of the mountain being hollow.

When he did a full circle around the mountain and didn’t find anything, he gained altitude by a few miles and flew around the mountain again.

In his Scan, John found an opening near the top. He flew up near its peak and entered the opening.

When he was close enough, his Scan picked up a trail throughout the mountain. His Scan didn’t pick it up earlier because the entire mountain was blocking it.

He thought it was blocked by an air lock, or a sealed space, but he was wrong. It only worked when his Scan could go through the current opening he had just entered.

Looking at the sides of the opening, John ran his hand down its smooth grey walls.

I’ve seen smooth walls like this only once before: when Tim McNeil, the first Sider king of the Eastern Kingdom, built that underground lair to pass on his message and knowledge.

Does that mean this was created by someone else and not naturally made?

John ignored the questions he had and ran through the tunnels that went through the mountain since his Scan had picked up an airtight door at the end. The tunnels ran through the entire mountain and the mysterious door was at the base.

When he arrived at the door, he concentrated on the writing that decorated its surface. It looked like the origin language, but he couldn’t read what it said.

The door was over ten feet high and five feet wide. It was a light-grey colour and the writing was pale red, like blood that had faded over many years. In the middle of the door was a line going from top to bottom, so John figured that the doors would open sideways like normal doors.

He placed both of his hands on the middle part of the door and used all the strength he could muster as he tried pushing and pulling them open, but they wouldn’t budge no matter how much strength he used.

John clenched his fist and tried punching the door, trying to break it down. The door vibrated a little, dust fell from the door, but there wasn’t even a dent in it.

When the door finished vibrating, John heard something click, and his Scan picked up a small opening to the side of the door.

Walking over, he found a small squared hole in the wall. When he looked inside the hole, he found a small book.

What’s this book doing here? There’s got to be instructions on how to get inside, but since I can now confirm this is man-made, who knows if there’s a trap.

John’s hands crept towards the book and picked it up carefully. Once he confirmed there was nothing resembling a trap, he pulled the book out of the hole and opened it.

Flipping the pages, he realised it was a translation for the origin language to a more common language John had already learned.

Why would this be here? Isn’t this a bit too convenient? Did the people who made this room leave the language translation here because they knew the origin language would die out?

Flipping through more pages, he didn’t know if this was an accurate translation or not or if it had the entire translation, but it was the only thing he had that could point him to his goal.

Taking a table and chair out of his Storage Space, he sat down and studied the translation.

It took him almost a week to memorise and learn how to read and write the origin language.

When he looked at the door again, according to the translations that he learned from the book, the writing on the door said, “Use five different elements on the door to open.”

John first placed the book back where he found it, causing the hole to close again.

This must be set up by whoever did this to preserve the clues on how to transcend for future generations.

He then walked to the door, spread his hand open, and used a different element on each finger and thumb. He used the five basic elements of fire, water, earth, metal, and wood.

When he placed his hand on the door, it made a loud bang before stacks of dust fell off them as the doors swung inward and away from him.

What greeted him behind the doors was a tunnel that only went a few feet before a perfectly large round room. The walls were round and shaped like a dome, and the floor was flat with some markings etched into it.

John couldn’t recognise what the markings on the floor were, but he noticed writing and pictures on the walls. They started from the left of the tunnel as he walked into the room and went all the way to the other side of the tunnel.

Walking further into the room, John stood in the middle to check everything out without the Scan. But when he