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Gerald Crawford:The Secretly Rich Man Novel (Invisible or Poorest) Chapter 1121

“A stone tablet?”

“Indeed. An ancient event of some sort had been painted onto it. Even after studying the stone tablet for quite some time, however, Xyion was only able to tell that it had something to do with a burial scene. He wasn’t able to understand the wording on the table at all, and after many years passed, he eventually lost interest in it. As a result, the tablet is now kept as an ancient art piece within my private room!” explained Master Ghost.

Another mural…?

Whenever Gerald heard about murals now, it always prompted his mind to recall what he had seen inside the ancient tomb.

As one would expect, ancient murals were usually filled with historic tales that reflected the people of the time’s social, political, economic, literary, artistic, and technological capabilities. Such murals could end up being vastly different according to the artists’ beliefs, customs, and also their aesthetic concepts.

These murals—that were usually drawn as long as rivers—were viewed extremely highly due to all the vivid and informative ancient scenes that the people of old drew with their descendants in mind. The fact that their heartfelt stories were told in such a different way only served to make the murals even more valuable.

Gerald had already seen how detailed these murals could get back when he was in the ancient tomb of the general god. He could still clearly remember all the drawings on the tomb that described things from the day the people had found the general god up till the day he was buried.

“Speaking of which, I later asked one of my old friends to come over and have a look at the tablet. From what he could tell, the burial method depicted on it was some sort of ocean burial!” added Ghost.

“Ocean burial?”

Upon hearing that, Gerald had a feeling that it could be related to the king of the ocean’s tomb. Due to that, he added, “Could I have a look at it?”

“If it’s piqued your interest, then by all means!” replied Master Ghost as he gestured for Gerald to follow him.

Following that, Master Ghost led Gerald to a small hill that was located behind the church’s backyard. On it, lay what seemed to be a private room where Master Ghost usually meditated in.

The private room itself was about five meters tall and three meters wide. Its walls were made of marble and the room was mostly dark and empty save for a table in the middle with a dimly-lit oil lamp on it, the sole source of light within the private room.

However, upon closer inspection, six mossy and ancient-looking stone tablets could be seen arranged neatly within the room as well. Those were definitely the murals Master Ghost had been talking about.

Lifting the lamp—that the master had offered to him—once Gerald stood right before the murals, he instantly began investigating them.

It wasn’t long before he noticed that the wording used on these tablets were similar to the ones he had seen back in the ancient tomb. Putting two and two together, he deduced that these murals were as old as the tomb itself.

After looking at the first mural for a while, Gerald suddenly froze. Shockingly, one of the scenes on the tablet seemed to detail what seemed to be the lady in white’s burial!

Not wanting to miss out on any key details, Gerald kept his eyes peeled as he continued trying to decipher the tablet.

From what he could understand, the story—that the mural was trying to tell—began by showing that Halimark City used to only be a tiny fishing village that was inhabited by rather isolated fishermen.

Reading on, it was shown that a group of people—led by an old man dressed in long robes—one day appeared at the village while carrying a huge coffin.

Gerald was all too familiar now with the robed old man. That old man was undoubtedly the same old beggar he had first seen on the ancient tomb’s murals!

To think that Gerald would see him even here!

Shaking the thought off, Gerald then continued reading on. Based on what he could see, Gerald guessed that the old beggar had carried the lady in white’s coffin all the way here after letting her and the general god bid each other farewell.

By this point, Gerald was completely certain that the one in the coffin was the lady in white. So his hunch was correct. She truly had been brought here…

Returning to the story of the fishermen, when they came back after fishing on that day, they were surprised to see the old man and his men carrying a coffin.

When the village’s patriarch stepped forward to ask who was in the coffin, the old beggar had apparently told them that it contained the body of a goddess who had fallen from the sky!

Hearing that, the villagers immediately bowed to the coffin. Following that, the patriarch seemed to ask why she had been moved here.

Seeing the beggar hand the patriarch quite a bit of gold, Gerald felt that it was safe to assume that the beggar simply replied that she was to be buried here. The next image suggested that the patriarch was also told to get his men to build an underwater tomb in the nearby ocean.

Due to the fact that the coffin contained a goddess and they were given a lot of gold, the patriarch simply obeyed. Everyone in the village was involved in the construction of the tomb, and all of them seemed to be equally determined to get the job done.

Within a short amount of time, the patriarch managed to gather around eight thousand people—both young and old—to sail out to sea and begin building a tomb for the goddess.

Surprisingly, the structure wasn’t called the king of the ocean’s palace. Rather, it was named the palace of the goddess.

Under the old beggar’s command, the palace was completed within half a year. On the mural, everyone involved appeared to be impressed by their grand underwater project. Soon enough, the lady in white’s burial would take place.

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Turning to look at the second mural, Gerald saw that it was about the lady in white’s burial. On the day of her burial itself, a thunderstorm seemed to be present.

Inclusive of the old man, Gerald counted—relatively easily—thirty-seven people in the next image, with nine people standing in each of the four rows that were drawn. With the thunderstorm still raging on, the people in this team seemed to be the only ones who had been chosen to set off to the palace of the goddess.

Halfway through their journey there, they appeared to halt at an island to take a short rest.

However, something happened soon after as was seen on the third mural. The ones on the island were greeted by the sight of a giant ship!

This wasn’t the first time Gerald had seen this ship either. It was exactly similar to the one he had seen in the tomb before this.

Seeing the oddly-shaped massive ship hovering atop the island, the thirty-six people the beggar had brought along immediately fell to their knees in terror and began worshiping it. From what Gerald could assume, they were all under the impression that some god was descending.

Following that, Gerald’s eyes widened as he saw a man dressed in a black robe—who was also wearing an odd mask—descend the giant ship before pointing at the goddess’s coffin.

The sight of the man alone was enough to make Gerald feel extremely anxious. After all, he was dressed exactly like the men Lyra had seen in the picture of the sun!

Was this hinting that he would be killed by those from the Sun League in the near future…? Frowning to himself, Gerald then continued reading.

Now nearing the end of the third mural, Gerald saw the old beggar jumping into the giant ship before walking into it. As for the others, they appeared to be trying to carry the coffin away…

Moving on to the fourth mural, it began by showing the old beggar continuing his journey with his group of men. Apparently, what happened in the giant ship was completely skipped.

Odder still was the fact that instead of thirty-six people like there were before, only twenty-seven remained… Where had the nine people disappeared to?

However, Gerald didn’t have the time to dwell on that due to how unreal the next set of images was.

Once they got close enough to the palace of the goddess, all of them were immediately greeted to the sight of an injured dragon that was flailing around in the ocean! That itself wouldn’t have been a problem if the dragon wasn’t doing so on top of the structure!

The next image displayed the old man relieving the dragon of its agony by crushing its skull, thus ending its life. However, the moment he did so, it seemed that the thunderstorm only worsened.

As a result, the boat seemed ready to capsize and Gerald could see all the remaining men falling to their knees in terror.

In the fifth mural, the goddess’s coffin could be seen being sent down together with the now dead dragon’s body. Both of them were then buried together.

From the insane amount of detail put into drawing the submerged structure, Gerald felt that it truly looked like an undersea palace fit for dragons.

Regardless, all of them were apparently able to remain submerged for so long due to something the old beggar handed to them before they went under the waves. The old beggar’s knowledge truly played a huge role in all this…

Finally moving on to the sixth mural, Gerald found himself raising an eyebrow. The very first image showed the people returning to the deck of the ship. However, they had brought up another coffin that was completely made out of glass!

Since the coffin wasn’t that big, Gerald simply assumed that the person inside was a child.

Regardless, while everyone seemed to be particularly careful as they carried the coffin, one of the men apparently ended up slipping…

…Huh?

The last image simply showed the coffin being overturned… However, that was it. The final mural ended there.

Guessing that the murals were drawn by one of the thirty-six people who had been chosen to board the boat, Gerald couldn’t help but feel slightly upset and irked by the fact that he wasn’t able to finish reading the entire story…

Where did the small glass coffin end up…?

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Now that he was done reading the murals, he explained everything that he had just learned to Master Ghost.

“…I see. I do wonder, Mr. Crawford, if you find the supernatural giant ship in the murals to be suspicious as well… After all, scientifically speaking, there was no way such a massive, floating vehicle like that could exist back then. Even my master said that the ship was something out of this world back when he first saw it forty years ago,” said Master Ghost.

“I do. While this isn’t my first time seeing it, back when I first did, I had been extremely skeptical the moment I saw it. Now, however, I have reason to believe that the murals could actually be evidence that our planet had—at one point—been dominated by some advanced civilization alongside that dragon that had been heavily injured under the sea!” replied Gerald.

“It appears that you believe in these murals, Mr. Crawford. You know, both my master and I had been confused by the dragon and the giant descending ship from the sky for the longest time. After all, it’s simply impossible for them to exist! While both of us had simply summed it up as the imagination of the ancients, Xyion, on the other hand, truly believed that the events that had been drawn on the tablets had really taken place!” said Master Ghost as he turned to look at the murals.

Pointing at the mural where the old beggar had given something to his men before they descended into the water, Master Ghost then added, “After all, if you look here, the old man is clearly handing his men water repellent stones before they submerge below the waves! Since there’s a logical explanation to how they remained underwater for so long, I refuse to believe that the other incidents can’t be explained with logic as well!”

“Water repellent stones?” asked Gerald.

“Indeed. From what my master had told me, water repellent stones are celestial in nature and they’ve been around for thousands of years. As their name suggests, they repel water and once a person puts one into their mouth, they’ll be able to withstand the ocean’s immense pressure! Mind you, being that deep in the ocean is not something ordinary people can do!” explained Master Ghost.

Hearing that, Gerald thought about it for a moment.

After studying the map that he had previously obtained from the Minshall family, he realized how truly deep underwater the king of the ocean’s palace was.

While he was sure that his body was now solid enough to be able to withstand the ocean’s pressure without getting hurt or having his agility affected, the same couldn’t be said about regular people.

Since the king of the ocean’s palace was massive, he knew that it would be impossible for him to act alone.

Due to that, he had told his family to send a few men over after they prepared special equipment for them that would help repel the immense undersea pressure. Once they had geared up, they would definitely be able to assist him during his investigation. It was also due to the time needed to prepare said equipment that the men weren’t here yet.

learned about the existence of water repellent stones, there was no reason for him not to use

could get my

However, you could try asking the Minshalls for more information about it. After all, their family’s ancestors had once used those stones

that wouldn’t be a problem

again once I’ve completed what I need to do at the king of the ocean’s palace!” replied Gerald as

Master Ghost couldn’t help

That in the near future, big changes will happen and disaster will befall all of mankind…? However, I also remember you saying that a young man would show

grabbed onto the Minshall family’s old master’s neck in the Minshall family mansion. Though the Minshalls were sly, once the old man’s feet were lifted off the ground,

found within the Minshall family’s ancestral mine. In truth, it was even more precious compared to the map that

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that was the case, however, everything they owned

I’ve retrieved the stone, you got that?” said Gerald as he tossed

master immediately burst into tears as he shouted, “That… That

events. To think that they used to have such a happy and wonderful life… Now, however, it was all gone, and Gerald’s constant

would’ve been fine. Who would’ve thought that this man would be so unreasonable? He was a much bigger

had been a well-known and almost noble-like family within Halimark City.

is our family’s last treasure, grandpa! Even our ancestors have said though we can live without money and power,

will be lost if he gets his

generations of the Minshall family were currently shouting their

they had all said was undoubtedly true. As long as they still had the water repellent stone, then their family would definitely still have a chance of prospering again, even if Gerald had taken away everything else. Zelda probably wouldn’t have to

even think it’ll be that easy for him to obtain the water repellent stone? Quite honestly, I’d

you say that,

you be such an idiot now? Have you already forgotten that we still

asked the other Minshalls as their faces

thousand years of poison, of course!” replied Zelda while gnashing

Minshalls immediately began exchanging

years of poison was one of the Minshall family’s most ancient treasures. While many of the family’s grandchildren only thought that it was a myth, hearing that their grandfather mention

even a single sniff of the poison was enough to cause the person’s internal

it’s true that none of us here are even close to being worthy opponents to him, I’d like to see

then

shouted both

had also told us back then that we’d face a massive problem this year that would cost us our entire family! Now that all of this has happened, I want both of you to head over to him and ask him to read our family’s fortune again! More specifically, ask Master Ghost whether our family will be able to successfully get

other Minshall family leaders to gather in the meeting room that was located in their backyard.

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was staring at the six stone tablets, continuing to ponder on Gerald’s interpretation

just didn’t feel

a girl outside who’s been trying to break into the church! She keeps saying that she wants you to give her a reading on her life! Though many of us tried to stop her, she simply keeps fighting her way in! We… We don’t stand a chance against her! Even worse is the fact that she said she would burn

hand before replying, “I’ll deal with this. Tell her

run off, Ghost then shook his head

He’ll be here in a moment!” wailed the voice of his earlier student as Master Ghost stepped into the front

he was immediately greeted to the sight of an extraordinarily beautiful girl stepping on his student—who was now lying on

him this instant, young lady!” ordered Ghost

you’ve finally decided to show yourself, old master!”

my students, young lady! We can just talk

your nonsense! I… I came here to… I… I need your help…!” shouted the girl as she covered her stomach with an arm, seemingly in immense

talking! You’re obviously hurt!” replied Master Ghost as he supported

pilgrims outside as well!” shouted another student of his as he ran into

a frustrated tone, “Help them up and bring them to

girl next, he then added, “As for you, young lady, why did

weren’t supposed to! I haven’t even gouged their eyes

staring at and even harassing her on her way up, she felt that it was only right for her to teach

then said, “…Then, what exactly do you wish

exact! I need you to check whether I’ll be

he needed to, Ghost simply nodded before starting the reading

I know what your

Yume Gunter!” replied the

place your hands on any two of the nine dragon heads!” ordered Master Ghost as the

was told, the heads soon began

reading her prediction, Yume herself walked around

a unique-looking, crystal-clear stone that glowed a

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a meter high, and Yume couldn’t help but feel that the stone was rather extraordinary. It simply gave off an aura of intimacy when

caressing the stone. However, not long after she touched it, the stone suddenly lit up, enveloping

shielded her eyes with a hand as

lights finally began dimming down again, and eventually, the stone returned to its initial faint glow. However, a few complicated-looking lines

Miss Gunter?” asked Master Ghost as he walked over with a wry smile on

of which, what kind of broken stone even is this…? Why would it suddenly light up on its

comes to marriage! You touching it earlier activated it! The lines on the stone represent your

her face turned as red as

fact, she had been disgusted with the idea of affection between men and women ever

irritated and annoyed when Gerald had touched her skin back then, even though it was to heal her injuries. She simply hated the idea of skin contact between opposite genders and would very

marriage first? Based on what the marriage stone is saying, it

you truly see my fate?” asked Yume as she felt her heart

was a woman with a fiery temper, she was still a woman at heart, and any woman would grow shy once they heard things regarding the fate of their

From what I was able to gather, you’ll be able to find what you want on your trip. The eight diagrams also imply that you’ll not only be able to locate the person you’re looking for, but you’ll also obtain something you weren’t quite expecting! I’ve foreseen that you’ll be able to find the person who’s been

Yume’s beautiful face somehow managed

the apprentices—who had remained in the room—found themselves unable to stop themselves from gulping and staring wide-eyed at her. Despite her

can help further analyze the clues displayed on the

if I would be able to achieve my goal during this trip! I don’t need to find out about anything else!” replied Yume as she stole a glance

she got to the door, she found

was extremely tempted to

stronger by the year. It felt as though there were simply some things that she could no longer avoid

time, Yume finally walked back before saying, “…Fine! I’ll listen to what you

was here since he

Minshalls had carefully hidden the stone in the deepest part of the mine so that no random person would ever

came across countless spider webs and the occasional discarded mining

hidden paths, Gerald finally caught sight of the white,

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Gerald could feel the power within

truly amazing object!” muttered Gerald

stone, Gerald’s ears suddenly heard the sound of a

…A person?

sliding down the rope. With that,

a woman jumped down. The moment she

can finally set off once I get my hands on the stone!” said the woman to herself

particular as he continued

question was

Langvern Mountain, Gerald had returned to Yarne Manor to discuss a few more matters with Wagner. It was around then when a

the girl was quite extraordinary since she knew quite a bit of martial arts, he truly hadn’t expected for her to also be looking for the

could he have imagined that he would actually end up accidentally

should confront her, he suddenly heard

hand inches away from the water repellent stone when she heard the deafening screech. Looking

the side to avoid the shadow. In doing so,

already identified that the shadowy figure had belonged to a bat. However, this wasn’t any regular bat. It was a

its most striking characteristics were its long, overflowing red hair and its exposed fangs. Together, these features made it look similar to

Yume with its vicious eyes before

that, it leaped at her

was able to avoid the bat’s front paw attack, Yume failed to dodge its tail wing attack

onto the ground, Yume could feel her wounds start to hurt again as she felt some blood seeping out of

to give Yume any time to recover. Stomping menacingly toward the injured girl, it appeared to be enjoying the thought of

burning his church down if it’s the last thing I do! Otherwise, he’ll only continue

before directly heading to the Minshall family’s ancestral

that she was actually going to die here being eaten alive by this beast… It

before pointing it at herself. Eyes closed and ready to end her own life, she first muttered, “I’m sorry, grandma… I was unable to complete the task you

she could plunge the blade into herself,

by the sound of

Yume found herself staring in disbelief at the dead beast that now

while saying,

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said

you!” shouted

Gerald, it instantly turned red as a tomato. Though

seems that we both came here today with the same purpose in mind. Are you planning to head to the king of the ocean’s palace as well?” asked Gerald who had been surprised to hear

standing up and immediately turning to face the other way as she recalled Master Ghost’s earlier words about the

of the marriage stone, it appears that you’ve already met the person you’ll end up falling in love with, Miss Gunter! From what I can see, it seems that both of you only separated quite recently as

It… couldn’t

Ghost then replied, “Quite unfortunately

Now why would you

that you’ll definitely end up falling for him, he won’t love you in return! It’s just a sad ending since both of you will never be