The entrance to the tomb was near the bottom of the valley. A few broken pillars stood amidst the dense shrubs, covered all over with climbing vines. If one didn't look closely, one would simply take them for greenish rock. But Brand felt the passage the mercenaries had dug out was quite professional; he had often dug this kind of passage himself, since this kind of hard labor was originally the work of warriors, and he could be called an expert at it.
He observed briefly: the stone of the pillars was badly corroded, and the fine patterns upon them resembled writing. It was neither Kruz Language nor Elf Language, which meant it most likely came from the history of the mountain people. Before the Silver Elf Empire and the Erune Kingdom had successively ruled this region, the original inhabitants here were also the mountain people. That stretch of history had to be traced back to before the Saint War; this tomb very likely did have quite a long history.
