The Flower of Virtues

42: Ancient History

They entered the lower room even deeper because Chiara had just told them that their journey was still long, this underground chamber was only filled with previously unknown history and was forbidden to reveal to the entire race including the angels themselves. Asuka could see some strange writing and a powder that looked glittering, there was no dust except for that strange shimmering powder.

"The room is dark but every time we go deeper, I see nothing but this shimmering powder, what exactly is this room? Are we really at the temple of trial?" Akina asked, Chiara shook her head as they were still a long way towards that trial temple.

"This underground chamber is just a path and a path for us to go to the temple, the temple is located above the sky, the temple is, with our angels' wings limited, we will not reach the highest point of the sky where we will not reach the temple." Chiara answered so that she could see a lot of ancient writings everywhere, he had visited with Rosalia but he never thought when visiting the cave basement for the second time could have a feeling of fear and horror when he saw all the writing.

"This writing is. in the ancient era..." Azusa said because both eyes can analyze something, since she found the writing, she felt very curious until she did some analysis using both eyes, they all stared at Azusa as she could understand the strange ancient language, "Azusa... Azusa understands?" Ask Asuka.

"Azusa understood.maybe the writing Azusa read is not very important, just telling the history of Xuusuatouri who was in the era that used to be." Azusa said, they nodded and ignored her so that Chiara stopped in front of a very large door, all the angels stopped and looked annoyed when a door blocked them. They try to destroy her but the door has a strong seal, Chloe can figure it out on her own.

"There's a very strong ancient seal protecting that door, do you know of anything like this, Chiara?" Chloe asked, Chiara shook her head and then tried to remind her that when she went with Rosalia to this place, she could open it easily when she said something she had never heard. Chiara herself was confused about what Rosalia was trying to say in front of the door until the door began to sparkle and open wide.

"If it's not wrong I've seen my teacher say something before that door, either he says what but his way of speaking sounds like an ancient language. Is it possible that all the ancient writings in this room can open the door?" Chiara asked, they were shocked because a door had blocked their way and spent much longer.

Asuka had just realized that Azusa had suddenly disappeared, she turned her head back and saw Azusa who was trying to read the entire ancient writing alone. They can't read it so they just need to rely on Azusa who can read all the writing because of the help of the system and technology, they felt very curious about what Azusa was reading until they told her to tell her what she was reading in detail.

"Azusa, what did Azusa read?" Ask Asuka.

"All this writing is history that tells a few years back, Azusa could also see Mama participating in this fight. This history tells about a considerable conflict since long ago if it is not wrong this shimmering powder named [Stardust], this room tells about an ancient magic called Stardust." Azusa picked up some glittering powder scattered everywhere and threw it all over the writing so that the slightly darkened room began to fill with extraterrestrial light.

"It's beautiful..." Akina looked around and was impressed when she saw that all the shimmering powder began to form an image on a large, empty wall. They were all shocked when the powder began to depict a huge dragon that had blue skin and a face that looked extremely sinister, the dragon also looks like it is fighting some living creatures that look quite foreign.

Akina was stunned when she saw her two parents participating in the fight against the dragon, "S-Actually what is this...?" Ask Akina.

"The battle that happened since ancient times, the dragon was if not mistakenly named [Starmonigaru]. This dragon is a dragon that can be called [The Ancient Majestic Creature] that lives in every dimension of magic, they would all be unable to get out of that magic dimension because their original bodies that were in this huge universe called Touri were already sealed." Azusa knew the history because she had read all the ancient writings from the beginning to the end and she only needed to explain them to those who looked confused.

"Azusa, what is it...?" 

"Yes, the angel is Mama, Brother. Mama was named Rosalia and since ancient times, Mama has been born but Mama has not found her partner. There were countless clans and races fighting especially the Comi family, Phoenix, Shiratori, and the others. They all fought by working together into one." Azusa now understood how to open the big door, she just had to go to the door and touch it using her palms.

"What happened to that dragon called Starmonigaru?" Ask Chloe.

"Starmonigaru has already lost, the seal is the only way to stop the dragon. His body was in a seal but his soul was still wandering in a magic region called the [Stardust Realm]." Azusa's words somehow made them relieved because they felt very afraid when they heard the creature named Starmonigaru.

"This creature is really terrible, Starmonigaru can change shape into any size even he can grow and shrink, there is no limit to the increase in size so automatically... the dragon can change size to a size larger than the universe itself." Azusa said, her words made all of them dumbfounded because the creature was truly terrifying, they were relieved that the creature was already sealed.

Azusa began to say something using the ancient language so that the large door began to emit the same rays of light as outer space and then opened wide, Chiara finally felt relieved that Azusa could open that door easily, they also gained some knowledge about ancient history. The room behind the door was so dark that even their two angel eyes could not shine on it.

"Why is this room dark...? Are my eyes troubled...?" Akina asked, as an angel who was used to seeing something dark become something bright it was quite strange. Asuka herself could not see the darkness using her eyes so Azusa approached the corner room to pick up some sparkling powder.

"This darkness is a seal, it means we can only see light with this Stardust powder." Azusa began to throw all the dust until it began to fill the room and light it until they were stunned when they saw a large dragon statue that had a terrible head, "A-Azusa!?" Ask them all while pointing at the statue.

"Wait, you've been to this place but you never knew about the statue?!" Ask Chloe, Chiara shook her head because she was only following Rosalia so she was not too curious about the writing on the wall and the room was dark from the beginning but she never knew that the large and spacious room was will have that terrible dragon statue.

Azusa approached the statue and knocked it with her hand, "This is a seal statue, you could say this statue is a dragon named..."

"...Starmonious."