Compared to the size of Deltos when he was last seen, Deltos is now more than double in size, and his surface skin emits a gem-like glow, looking as if shining gems are embedded in his stone skin.
It is also because his body has grown a lot that the proportion of his body to his head looks much more coordinated, unlike the initial appearance of a big-headed doll.
Although Deltos was in a deep sleep, he was not without protection; a mist like morning frost enveloped him.
This layer of mist looks very ordinary, but beneath this ordinary appearance, a killing intent is hidden; from the various monsters frozen in the mist, it is not difficult to see that the rapid freezing effect of this mist is no less than Lord Lynd's Ice Dragon Rune power.
The last time Lynd searched in Valyria, besides parasitic organisms, he did not see any other creatures, but now, judging from the frozen monsters, it is clear that Valyria's species are more abundant than expected.
There were large spiders with over a dozen legs, worms covered in mouthparts, and some kind of beast that looked like a rotting corpse; in short, they were all completely mutated creatures.
In addition, Lynd also found that as the volcanic ash and toxic smoke in the sky thinned, the radiating magic on the black stone's surface seemed to have greatly intensified, and it carried a very strange stickiness.
When the black stone magic falls on the body, it adheres to the body's surface and does not dissipate for a long time, like radioactive dust.
Lynd walked around Deltos, checked Deltos's condition, and after finding no abnormalities, he did not go forward to wake Deltos, because he could feel that this sleep was very important to Deltos, so he left Lava Dragon Nessario to protect Deltos, and he himself went to the nearby ruins to see if there could be other discoveries.
The surrounding environment had not changed much since Lynd's last visit; because sunlight could penetrate the volcanic ash in the sky and shine on the ground, he could also use these not-so-bright lights to clearly see many things he had overlooked last time.
For example, when the Doomsday Catastrophe arrived, the Valyrians did not have time to take away various treasures; gold and silver ornaments were one thing, but Lynd also found many items made of Valyrian steel.
No wonder it has always been rumored that Valyria is full of treasures; as long as one can enter the ruins and leave alive, one can obtain enough wealth to enjoy for a lifetime.
Although this rumor sounds a bit exaggerated, it is actually not far off; the Valyrian steel ornaments Lynd casually found on the remains of Valyrians in the ruins were already enough to make an ordinary person live a wealthy life.
This was just the wealth Lynd found by casually looking; the hidden treasures remaining beneath these ruins are probably an astonishing astronomical figure, and stimulated by this huge treasure, the idea Lynd had previously considered of building another Black Hollow near Valyria also emerged in his mind, and he began to consider the feasibility of implementing it.
While Lynd was thinking about how to claim Valyria for himself, he continued to walk through the ruins, and soon he arrived outside the grand hall where the dragon horn was stored.
Originally, Lynd had no intention of going in to look again, but as he passed by, his gaze inadvertently swept over a few corpses outside the hall, and he discovered something amiss: these corpses had been moved.
"Someone else has entered Valyria?" Lynd was surprised and immediately turned to walk towards the hall.
Upon reaching the corpses outside the hall, Lynd quickly examined the residual traces on the bodies, confirming that the corpses had indeed been moved, and judging from the fresh dust covering the bodies and the surrounding area, the time was very recent, at most within the last few days.
Upon entering the hall, Lynd saw that the altar where the dragon horn was placed had been dismantled and removed.
Lynd's impression of that altar was not very deep; he only confirmed that there were no special runes or similar things on the altar's surface, and that its material was merely special, made of black stone, but this black stone was vastly different from the greasy black stone outside, feeling more like the black stone fortress beneath Oldtown's Hightower, which was a black stone that had already lost its power.
"What's the use of that kind of black stone?" Lynd felt a burst of confusion, because although that kind of powerless black stone was not abundant, it was not difficult to obtain; in many Valyrian Freehold colonies, there were architectural remains made of this black stone, and one could simply take it if desired, so why would someone risk danger to move this black stone altar here?
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