Within the team, the person most adept at long-range attacks was undoubtedly Stargie.
Her emitted Aura Blades, using musical notes as a medium, effortlessly sliced all the embryos present into chunks of flesh.
Ceasing her movements, the music consequently stopped.
However, the small flesh chunks scattered across the floor were still wriggling, seemingly not completely dead.
"For now, they don't pose much of a threat," Ging said, looking at the wriggling flesh.
"Hmm."
Law nodded slightly.
'From the two attacks, these embryos' defensive power wasn't strong, comparable to ordinary flesh and blood. They were just quite agile and had somewhat heavy strength.'
'However, judging from the wriggling signs of the flesh chunks, they seemed to possess the ability to recombine and regenerate.'
'If that's all, they still didn't pose a significant threat. But to thoroughly resolve them, fire would have to be used.'
Law took out the Chasefire Stone, holding it in his hand.
Aura transformed into a Domain Ring, released from under his feet, instantly bringing all the flesh chunks Stargie had cut into his territory's range.
[Conductor's Baton]
The numerous wriggling flesh chunks seemed manipulated by a pair of invisible air hands, all floating up, then squeezing into a spherical shape, suspended in mid-air.
Law raised the Chasefire Stone, flicked it slightly with his thumb, and dislodged a small fragment.
The fragment flew like a spark onto the flesh-ball formed by the aggregated chunks.
Immediately after, the territory rapidly contracted, enveloping the flesh-ball.
Boom!
The thermal energy contained in the Chasefire Stone's fragment exploded within the territory's light sphere, turning it into a fireball in the air.
After about several seconds, the flames inside the territory sphere vanished. The flesh chunks previously inside had turned into a pile of black powder.
Watching this, Law retracted his territory, letting the black powder drift to the ground.
"Were these things created by ancient humans?"
"Who knows?"
"But it's definitely related to ancient humans."
"There's more than one building here. If every building has these embryos..."
Law also thought of this possibility.
If every building had embryos, given the growth characteristics shown by the embryos, it wouldn't be good news.
Fortunately, the Mountain Ship had just visited the ancient labyrinth city. Presumably, the Brion-parasitized bodies active in the outer passages had all been blasted to ashes, thus not becoming nourishment for the embryos.
This was somewhat good news, although the culprit that electrified the site buildings, causing the embryos to awaken, was the Mountain Ship...
"What should we do?"
Practically everyone imagined the phenomenon of countless embryos devouring each other and growing stronger.
Law looked at Sheila and asked, "How much longer for the appraisal result?"
"About thirty minutes."
"Alright."
Law instantly appeared beside Salin with a step, lightly tapping the table. "Is the interpretation going smoothly?"
Salin was slightly startled. She looked up at Law, displeasure in her eyes, like someone woken up forcefully from deep sleep… it would definitely be unpleasant.
Law was already used to this reaction from Salin and calmly repeated what he had just said.
Salin shook her head. "The ancient script on the paper is clearly much more complex than what was on the rooftop. I can't interpret it in a short time."
"Is that so..."
Law murmured thoughtfully, then strode over to Ging and Stargie.
Assuming other buildings also had embryos, they should have become active by now.
Considering the Mountain Ship's earlier indiscriminate bombardment, not to mention the Herb for All-illnesses in the ancient labyrinth city, probably even the Brion plants and Brion-parasitized bodies had been blasted to ashes.
If the fragrant grass was gone, the motivation to stay in the Ancient Labyrinth City would correspondingly weaken, making it unnecessary to face potential threats.
But even if they were to leave, they had to wait for Ai-chan's appraisal result.
As for interpreting the ancient script, there was no rush.
"Ging, Stargie, let's go up and check."
During the half-hour before the appraisal result came out, Law decided to go upstairs to check the situation.
Judging by the first floor's height, a single labyrinth building probably had around twelve floors.
Only by going up the stairs would they know the situation on the third, fourth, and higher floors.
The others stayed on the first floor, while Law, Ging, and Stargie ascended to the second floor via the stairs.
As previously sensed with En, the room's layout was similar to the first floor, and the containers that originally held embryos were shattered into fragments all over the floor.
On the second floor, no sounds were heard from above.
"To the third floor."
Law took the lead, walking ahead.
After climbing the over-five-meter-high stairs, they reached the third-floor entrance.
What met their eyes was still a floor littered with debris, along with a control panel and containers.
However, the containers on the third floor were empty, only bubbles continuously rising.
Moreover, the container indicator lights were on, seemingly operational, and the screens on the control panel still showed flickering static.
Law didn't know if among the debris on the floor there were silver metal objects like those found on the first floor, nor did he use his territory to clean the area.
After all, time was quite limited.
They had to try to explore the structure of a labyrinth building within half an hour.
Afterwards, they went to the fourth floor. The room's layout and current condition had completely changed.
No longer debris-laden floors, but walls erected vertically, partitioning the originally spacious room into many compartments.
The floor was covered in thick dust. A light step would raise a small cloud of dust.
To reduce exploration time, Law used En, which gave a relatively vague sense, instead of entering each small compartment.
Releasing En, then retracting it.
Within a few seconds, information feedback came, but no major discoveries were made.
This floor's room seemed to be the bedrooms of the ancient humans. From various details, a simple style was evident everywhere.
After telling Ging and Stargie these findings, the three went straight to the fifth, sixth, seventh floors...
Up to the tenth floor, the basic structure was bedrooms, with no particularly special discoveries.
Then, the three went to the eleventh floor and finally saw a different interior structure.
In the center of the eleventh-floor room was a circular pool, occupying about two-thirds of the room's area.
The pool's height was over two meters. Around the base of its walls, simple-style control panels were built, and beside them, a staircase leading to the edge of the pool wall.
A fluorescent green light emerged from the pool, illuminating the ceiling, like shimmering water reflections.
Besides these things, the room had nothing else.
The three went to the pool, ascended the staircase beside the control panel to the edge of the pool wall.
Looking down, they saw the sizable pool contained a fluorescent green unknown liquid, static, with no sense of flow.
And above the water's surface, over a hundred green seeds were vertically suspended.
Unlike the silver unknown objects found on the first floor, the things in the pool, judging by appearance alone, were indeed seeds.
As for what plant's seeds they were, Law and the others didn't know.
From the first floor to the current eleventh floor, the background of the ancient humans who once lived here became increasingly mysterious, constantly overturning Law and Ging's existing perceptions.
It was a situation completely beyond common sense!
The Slu Tribe's people currently living in the underground world, and some other humans Law hadn't encountered, were evolving in a way different from humans on the Six Continents to survive in harsh environments.
Yet from the existing discoveries, the ancient humans who built the Ancient Labyrinth City clearly diverged from the Slu Tribe's people, more resembling humans who migrated to the Six Continents.
To thoroughly uncover everything hidden in the distant past, they had to wait for Salin to interpret the ancient script's content.