Monster bones. Lucas was quite curious. He hadn't seen many of this world's species, but the existence of animal-ear girls and elves gave him a strange idea.
"Monster bones?" Mina's eyes narrowed. She threw the burlap sack of tea leaves on the ground, drew her military knife, and followed closely behind Amelia.
"Wait for me." Annie put her sack down, chasing after them with her fox tail swaying.
"Monster bones? Could it be that one?" Elisa muttered to herself, frowning slightly as she quickened her pace to follow.
Tap, tap, tap...
Lucas and the others walked for about ten minutes, leaving the tea garden and arriving before a forest of rocks, all of which were bizarrely shaped.
"My Lord, the monster bones are in here," Number Seven said with a serious face.
"Let's go in." Lucas glanced at the rock forest. The rocks here were strange as if they had been sculpted by something.
"Yes." Number Seven immediately led the way.
After another five minutes of walking, an open space appeared before them. It was a patch of half-man-high grass. Chris and his men were all in the center of the clearing, looking down at the ground. The monster bones must be in the grass. With the blades of grass in the way, Lucas and the others couldn't see what the monster bones looked like. They followed the path that Chris's group had cleared.
Lucas scanned his surroundings, wondering if some large beast lived here. On second thought, it seemed very possible; the climate was well-suited for some wild animals.
Crunch, crunch...
The grass stalks snapped underfoot. Lucas's group soon reached the middle of the clearing and saw the monster bones.
"This is..." Lucas raised an eyebrow, staring in astonishment at the bones that were mostly exposed from the grass. How could these be here too?
Lucas was all too familiar with these so-called monster bones. Weren't they just dinosaur fossils? The fossil before him was that of a Triceratops; the fossilized skull sticking out of the ground was incredibly recognizable.
Could it be that this world's prehistoric civilization also had dinosaurs? This made Lucas think of Earth's own prehistoric dinosaur era. Was there a connection between the two?
"Wow? It's so big." Annie covered her mouth, gazing at the massive skeleton and its strange skull. "This monster has three horns on its head," She said in amazement.
"When it was alive, this monster was at least six or seven meters long," Mina assessed, walking around the skeleton. "And over three meters tall."
"..." Elisa fell silent. She had seen monster bones like these before in the Forest of Life, secretly, in its forbidden grounds.
The forbidden area of the Forest of Life had many of these monster skeletons, at least a few thousand of them, along with some other very large bones, creating a very grim and spooky sight.
Amelia stared blankly at the monster bones for a moment, then looked up at Lucas and asked, "Father, what is this?"
"This is called a Triceratops dinosaur," Lucas said after a moment's hesitation, deciding to explain. "These aren't just simple bones anymore; they've become a type of fossil."
"Fossil?" Everyone present was stunned. This was another new word.
"Master, what's a fossil? Aren't these just bones?" Annie asked curiously.
"To talk about fossils, we have to talk about a distant age in our world's past. That era was at least sixty million years ago."
Lucas's voice was tinged with a sense of the ethereal as he continued slowly, "That was the era when this Triceratops dinosaur lived. Perhaps at that time, we humans, including the elves and beastkin, had not yet been born, or rather, had not yet evolved."
"Ah?" Annie's mouth fell open, her fox ears perked up.
"Si-sixty million years ago?" Mina's scalp tingled.
"This..." Elisa's emerald-green eyes trembled. That's too far back, isn't it? Sixty million years ago? Even a few hundred years felt distant.
It was too incredible. Everyone looked at their Lord (Master) with a strange sense of awe. The Lord (Master) was too amazing; he even knew about things from sixty million years ago.
Could that have been the age of the gods? Otherwise, how could such a gigantic creature exist?
"This Triceratops dinosaur was very likely a creature from sixty million years ago. In other words, that era belonged to creatures like this."
Lucas pointed to the Triceratops fossil and continued, "The Triceratops dinosaur died, or was accidentally buried by a large amount of mud and sand. In the following years, the fleshy parts of the remains decomposed completely, while the hard parts like shells, bones, and branches, along with the surrounding sediment, went through petrification and turned into stone. However, their original shape and structure have been preserved to this day."
He didn't know how long it had taken for this Triceratops to become a fossil, but he could bluff his way through by borrowing some information from Earth.
"Master, are you saying the bones of this three-horned thing have turned to stone?" Annie immediately understood.
"That's more or less it." Lucas nodded. A general explanation was enough; the animal-ear girls wouldn't understand the finer details, and this was all he could remember for now anyway.
"Dinosaur? Father, did you say this is a Tri-ceratops dinosaur?" Amelia focused only on the name Lucas had used for the monster. She pointed at the fossil, her green eyes shimmering with hope, and cried out, "Is it a dinosaur?"
"Uh..." Lucas was stumped. How was he supposed to explain this?
"Yeah, Master keeps calling it a Triceratops dinosaur. Do dinosaurs look like this?" Mina's eyes sparkled with curiosity. She crouched down and tapped the fossil. It was really hard.
"Uh... I guess you could consider it a type of dinosaur," Lucas figured he would have to look up some information when he got back. He could only manage a vague response. "Triceratops were plant-eaters, herbivorous dinosaurs."
"Master, are there even bigger dinosaurs? Meat-eating ones?" Amelia took a step forward and asked, "Like dinosaurs that can fly in the sky?"
"Yes, the ones that fly are called Quetzalcoatlus. They're huge," Lucas's eye twitched.
"Wow, Master, Master, so sixty million years ago? Was that the age of the gods?" Annie asked, her brown eyes wide.
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