Another strange thing was that the eyes of these dragons were still present, but they had turned into a molten, lava-like substance that was still burning even now, looking somewhat similar to the cores of the parasitic creatures earlier, just much larger.
Lynd took out these dragon eyes and examined them carefully, finding that these lava-like eyes had no magical aura whatsoever, and when cut open, they were all stone.
Although he didn't understand what these dragons had experienced before their deaths, it was certain that they must have been parasitized by those soft-bodied creatures, and it was even possible that some of these dragons had once fought Black Death, as the records mentioned that Black Death had many lacerations on his body, and only other dragons could inflict such damage on a dragon like Black Death.
However, all these dragons were now dead, both those that were parasitized and those that were not.
This also made Lynd a little confused: why hadn't those parasitic creatures spread outside? Leaving other places aside, they hadn't even spread to Land of the Long Summer, which was only separated by a sea. If these parasitic creatures were to spread to other places, it would definitely be a disaster for the entire human world.
"Perhaps they need the chaotic magic produced by the black stones to survive?" Lynd speculated in his mind.
After about half an hour, Lynd traveled from the city's edge to its center. After crossing two meteorite craters, he stood in front of the intact building.
The entire building looked like a temple, its design not only somewhat similar to the Red Temple in Volantis but also incorporating some elements of the temples on the Norvos mountaintops. It was clear that these buildings all originated from the same architectural style.
In the plaza in front of the temple, there were numerous human skeletons. Volcanic ash covered and solidified the bones, even preserving the expressions of death on the ash-formed cement: fear, panic, helplessness, despair. Even after hundreds of years, looking at these cement sculptures formed by the skeletons, one could still clearly feel the emotions of the Valyria people at that time.
Lynd stepped towards the temple entrance, and soon something new caught his eye: hundreds of human bodies. However, unlike the Valyria bodies outside, these were all mummified, as if all their bodily fluids had evaporated. Moreover, the clothes on these bodies were not of Valyria style; some looked like slave garments, while others resembled the attire of Westeros knights and nobles.
Lynd walked to one of the bodies dressed in noble attire, brushed the dust from his clothes, revealing the family crest belonging to this noble.
"Lannister?" Lynd paused after seeing the family crest, then looked at the surrounding bodies and said, "Could he be Gillian Lannister?"
The matter of Gillian Lannister sailing the Laughing Lion to Valyria had caused a huge stir back then. Tywin even sent people to Volantis but couldn't catch up. Eventually, after Gillian Lannister entered the Smoke Sea, he never returned, and Lannister believed he had died.
Lynd had met Gillian Lannister at a banquet in Lannisport, and although the mummified body in front of him was no longer recognizable, he could still discern the person's original appearance from some facial features.
"It seems it is indeed Gillian Lannister," Lynd quickly confirmed the body's identity, then looked at the other bodies around him.
From the positions of these bodies and their postures in death, they must have been chasing something or fleeing from something, arriving inside this temple. However, there might have been something even more terrifying within the temple that caused all their bodily fluids to evaporate simultaneously. This made Lynd feel a sense of alert, and he carefully surveyed his surroundings.
The temple was large but also very empty, with only an altar built in the very center. The altar was simple, without any patterns or symbols representing deities.
Lynd walked to the altar, looked at it, and found a mummified body lying on top of it, with a twisted horn on the ground beside the body.
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