'Medusa??' Broly thought as he looked at the woman. "Don't look at her eyes or you will turn into stone!" Broly shouted after realizing who it was.
Without hesitation the others looked away while spreading into the hall. Broly sensed something and directly dodged to the side. When he looked back at the spot where he just stood, he saw another layer of stone covering the ground.
'She doesn't need to be seen?' Broly dodged again and saw how Medusa clawed at him. Only missing by a short distance. A ki blast hit her in the face. The explosion enveloped her body. Suddenly wings on her back dispersed the smoke with a single flap. She soared into the air towards Taro who just attacked her.
Broly's body glowed slightly and he pursued her. She couldn't even react to his movement before he tore out her wings and kicked her into the wall. Following up immediately with a chop at her neck. His hand was like a sword as it effortlessly sliced thought her neck.
Her head flew into the air before it flew to its original position as sand flying through the air.
The gate opened and the knights rushed inside. Broly quickly approached the entrance and finished several knights with a single strike. His leg kicked out like a whip, decimating his opponents.
There was no suspense. The knights rushed in and were instantly killed by every strike of Broly. After a minute or two every knight was disposed of and Broly was able to relax again.
Alea approached him with concern written on her face. "Are you okay?" They knew that Broly's soul was damaged and every use would delay his healing, but now he engaged in a fight twice in two days.
They wanted to fight for him which was the reason why they went inside with him to begin with.
"Yeah. It seems like I am approving with ever fallen statue." He hadn't noticed it before as he had to concentrate on keeping the Exousians alive as they had fought against the scorpions, but now it was different.
It was almost miniscule, but he could feel his soul being strengthened. He would have missed it if he wasn't as sensitive as he was. Besides if his vision of truth wasn't limited, he would have seen energy leaving the statues bodies and traveling through the ground towards his feet.
Broly put his thoughts back and looked at the pictures on the wall which seemed to depict her life until she was killed by Perseus who was armed with a sickle and a shield. There wasn't a name tag on the walls but that was who Broly remembered that killed Medusa.
After going through the pictures, they went out and started to build defenses for the night. They just took the sand to build small hills to surround the entrance. Although it didn't offer much help against creatures that were traversing in the underground, it was better than nothing.
It was unfortunate, but they weren't able to use magic to materialize a few materials. It didn't really matter anyway as they would retreat into the tunnel to fight it out if someone was coming after them.
The next few days they were attacked by some other beasts that looked like humanoid wolves, but they didn't seem intelligent at all. 5-meter-tall tarantulas had obstructed their way several times. There were also gigantic sand worms that could have swallowed the whole group in a second, but it seemed like they weren't preying on them but on the giant spiders.
Broly watched interested as the giant worms and the tarantulas fought it out with each other. The worms had a clear advantage as they were moving through the sand undisturbed. It looked even more effortless than the scorpions.
The hairy spiders were quickly devoured, and the worms disappeared in the depths of the sand. Although this was interesting to watch, Broly became more interested in the temples themselves. Beforehand he just saw them as a convenience to not sleep outside, but now he saw things that he didn't expect to see.
Different mythologies that he knew from his past life, but it wasn't stopping there. Movies, series and books, there were several famous characters that Broly could identify. Of course, there were some he didn't know, but Broly was quite interested in what else he would be able to see.
He even went as far and took Kulaan for a fly in the night. Of course, it wasn't only because he wanted to sightsee, but he also benefitted from defeating the statues. It didn't heal his soul, but it was improving it. It was barely noticeable and if he didn't go after the statues, he wouldn't have noticed the difference.
At the fourth night, Broly arrived at a vast gate that was several times bigger than the 3-meter-wide doors from before. Just as he wanted to enter the temple, he felt the buzzing. "What is it?" Broly asked and turned towards Kulaan.
{I want to go inside with you!}
Broly saw the determination and anticipation in his eyes. He couldn't say no to the cute puppy face that Kulaan was putting on. If someone else would know that Broly considered Kulaan as cute, they would have asked if he was crazy instead.
Kulaan looked like a ferocious and sinister dragon that was born out of darkness itself. With his huge size, deadly claws and fangs, he struck fear into the hearts of mankind. To consider Kulaan as cute in anyway would only be able to come out of a devil's mouth.
After giving his okay, they went inside the hall and Broly instantly noticed the difference to the other halls. The decoration and the used material always differentiated itself from each other a bit but now it felt familiar.
The material seemed to be normal slightly darker stone and it was covered with moss. The knights looked like normal humans in full plate armor.
They quickly arrived at the hall and a familiar situation happened. Their path of retreat was obstructed and in the middle of the hall the creature started moving. No, this time it was two creatures and the hall were tens of meters tall.
A giant old dragon of the same kind as Kulaan, only bigger was moving in the middle. Riding the dragon was a creature that had armor that seemed to be made out of dragon bones. He was armed with a sword and a shield.
Broly couldn't believe his eyes. He was familiar with that getup and coupled with the dragon, he realized something.
He saw the dragon raise his body and opened his mouth in preparation to release a mighty fire breath.
Kulaan was provoked by it and directly imitated it with a fire breath of his own. Broly was focusing on the man that opened his stony mouth and released a strange blueish magical shockwave. Broly waved his hand at the wave and directly cut it in two. The man pulled out his sword and jumped off the dragon's back.
His body shot towards Broly and directly tried to cut him in half. Broly only smirked and took out the black sword that he was carrying on his back the whole time. He blocked the strike and sliced at the man who quickly put up his shield to block it.
The man's body slid across the ground only stopping a few ten meters away. It was only a stone creature, so it didn't feel any discomfort of the strike. It headed into battle straight away once again.
Broly played around for a while as he barely had used the sword and thought it was a good opportunity to copy some movements of a real swordsman. Although it wasn't a real living being, the stone creatures moved like ones.
The difference in skill in terms of the sword between the two was undeniable, but with every second this skill gap slowly shrunk. Broly had an absolute control over his body even if he didn't train in the way of the sword with conscious manipulation of every fiber of his body, he was able to copy the skills of this stone figure.
It was clear that if he only watched the moves, he would have been able to copy them as well, but it wouldn't be the same. His muscles didn't have memories of the moves he did. The only thing that came close to it was when he used a ki blade. He wanted to refine his skill and see the difference in real time.
However, annoyingly the man used several spell-like attacks that Broly had to dodge. They were powered by immense magic power and each of those attacks had different weird effects.
Kulaan quickly finished off his opponent and watched Broly going at it with the armored man. Broly fought on for a few minutes before he felt slightly fatigued and knew that if he continues not only would his healing be delayed but he might be hurt again. With a quick burst in speed and power he shortly decapitated the man.
The gate opened and before they could move in, a line on their chest appeared before they crumbled all together. Broly strapped the sword back on his back and looked at the pictures that were describing the life of the man known as the dragonborn.
He was familiar with the story as he had played the game in the past, however, some parts weren't as he remembered it. Many key parts were the same but there were large differences. Giant battles, wars and peculiar creatures and characters.
After analyzing the pictures his focus turned back to the stone figure. He hadn't put much thought about it before, but their movements are lifelike. Although they aren't acting injured if you pierced their legs, they are still depicting emotions like anger and pain.
In some way they seem to be mirrors of the beings that they are representing. Broly wanted to call out to Kulaan but he noticed something after he looked at Kulaan.
"Stand there for a second." Broly pointed a few meters away in front of a large picture. Kulaan seemed to know something as he put on the posture as if he was preparing a breath. Behind him was a picture of a dragon in the same posture. It was Alduin fighting the dragonborn.
Though slightly different, the resemblance was there.