Chapter 442: Stone Tables
Sam could recognize the table and he could vaguely speculate the actual functions of it.
But the problem is there is a large layered formation around the table. There is no way for it to actually open before the formation is not cleared. Sam checked the formation and it is similar to the ones above, except that there are around ten layers on this formation.
As he was observing, he noticed that Raiju is running towards them. It can sense Sam's presence and can easily find a way; it gave a message of finding a cave too.
Sam decided to check that on before dealing with this. So, he went there and started checking another cave, and there too, there is a circular table covered by large formations around them.
After looking at them, Sam walked out and decided to wait at the meeting point and when all of them gathered, they got the news that there are four such caves in the valley in total, and all four of them have the same things inside.
The table, the formations.
Sam went into deep thought and said.
"Let us first break the formations and see what will happen."
He went towards the first cave and started scanning the inscriptions arrays which are responsible for the cycles of variations and noticed that the array is actually the same one, but here there are three such arrays. One to unite the first five layers of the formation, the second one to unite the second five layers of the formations and the third one is joining both of these stacked layers.
After confirming this, Sam was able to break the formation in the next two hours and went onto the deal with the remaining three caves.
Meanwhile, he left one of his friends in every cave and placed the portable communication hubs within the valley to communicate.
The day is almost over by the time, they are done with this.
Sam is standing in front of the circular table and placed his hand on the extension and injected the spiritual energy.
A hologram appeared on the crystal surface all of a sudden and there is some glowing star-like lights in the hologram. Most of them are bright and large while there is some glowing sphere which is relatively dim. But they are only a few and far between.
"Inject your spiritual energy inside," Sam said through the communication device.
"Done" [X3]
All three of them replied simultaneously.
All of a sudden they heard a rumble of a huge rocky structure moving. The four of them are startled and Sam asked shadow mouse to take a look at what is it and concentrated on the work at hand.
"Do you guys see the glowing stars and the dim spheres?"
"Yes." [X3]
"Okay how many dim spheres are there and how many glowing stars are there?"
Sam said and he himself started counting.
He has twenty-one glowing stars and four dim spheres, but by the time he got the count, the others also started replying.
"Philip: Twenty glowing stars and five dim spheres"
"Watt: Twenty-two glowing stars and three dim spheres."
"Jack: Twenty-one Glowing stars and four dim spheres."
Sam frowned at this and his brain is working fast to find the connections and the first connection which he almost made instantly is that there are twenty-five objects on each table.
If they ignore the number of the stars and spheres individually, their combined total is twenty-five in each cave and at the same time, the grand total of all the objects is a hundred.
As he was thinking, the shadow mouse came back to the cave and Sam frowned at the message it carried.
"Meet at the center of the valley."
Sam said in the communication and he ran towards the center of the valley.
As he reached, he was stunned by the sight before him. There is a large stone tower that appeared out of nowhere standing tall in the center of the valley towering far above the mouth of the valley.
Sam let out the Sky and started flying towards it and he only saw the ending a little above the mouth of the valley.
There are some weird symbols on the stone tower. It is cylindrical in shape and Sam felt quite weird looking at it. He could feel guess that this existence is linked with unlocking the island, as it appeared right when they activated the stone tables.
The tower is divided into smaller sections, it is almost like large stone discs stacked together to form a long tower.
When he came back, his friends are already back and Philip is observing the statue.
On one of the sections, there is a palm-shaped grove on it. Watt and Jack who are walking around the statue noticed that there are three more palm grooves just like the first one.
Sam walked to one of them, placed his palm, and started injecting the spiritual energy inside.
Some bright-line glowed on the stone structure and it started spreading in the form of lines for the next section upwards at the same time another line is spreading towards the section downwards.
But it didn't stop, after it crossed the two sections it broke and stopped spreading, and immediately the bright lines stopped glowing.
But the section which has palm grooved still kept on glowing and there are some patterns on each stone of that section which are also glowing.
For the three of them, they are weird patterns, but Sam could recognize them. Because they are symbols showing the formations. They are the symbols which are the short forms given to indicate a type of formation.
And all of them happened to be basic formations that should be known by even a novice formation master. If any formation master claimed that they don't know any one of these formations, then they can be considered incompetent and easily stripped of their title as a formation master.
There are sixteen such symbols on the rocks in that section along with the four of them palm grooves.
Sam frowned at this, he could understand what these indicate, but he couldn't understand what these things signify. It is quite troublesome.
One thing he knew is that it is connected to the tables in the caves.
But he couldn't understand anything from the glowing lights in his cave.
He went back to the cave and started looking at the star patterns. After some hesitation and remembering something he touched a star and then induced his spiritual energy inside, the star highlighted and glowed brighter, at this moment, Sam moved his finger within the hologram and a three-dimensional line appeared within the hologram from that star, he moved it to another star and the line connected both the star.
He didn't stop there and connected the next star and the next one. He connected six stars and a closed figure appeared.
At this moment, the stone pillar gave a slight rumble, and it is not audible to Sam in the cave, Watt contacted him through the communication.
"The stone pillar has some changes. The two sections moved a bit."
Sam moved towards it and when he once again placed his hand on the pal groove as he injected the spiritual energy, this time the line pattern appeared a bit different than before, because of the changes of the sections, but it was still cut off.
Sam confirmed some of his speculations.
But it is not enough, he went back to the cave and noticed that the small closed figure is still there, without disappearing.
He started creating another closed figure, but this time something happened. He couldn't pass through the dim spheres. He couldn't use the dim spheres as the nodes for the closed figure. He frowned at this.
He understood the meaning of the stars in the hologram, but he couldn't understand the significance of the dim spheres.
After some thought, he decided to check up on another cave. But he still couldn't understand and moved to another cave, only when he entered the fourth cave, did he get some ideas.
The fourth cave is actually the one that gave him hints.
Because, he saw three stars that are forming a triangle and are closer than the rest of the stars on the table and when he marked the positions of other stars from this triangle, he could feel a familiar path.
He has seen the same path in the first region and that too the very first formation he has cracked. This is the place where there are three formations close to each other and apart from that, there are no such formations that are close to each other. At least not that close.
He marked the places of the dim spheres on it, this is the one which has twenty-one stars and four dim spheres and went out.
"Look for other clues, I have something to confirm." He said to the rest of the group and left the place.