These Familiars Are Strange-Chapter 248: Diary

"This is a book? Is it some kind of history book or a magic book?" I asked as I took the book from the skeletal rat that brought it back.

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Only when I read it, I couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed.

It wasn't a history book or a magic book like I hoped it would be…

"Is this some kind of diary?"

That was what I discovered when I read the first page.

Just the fact that it was a diary made it seem unlikely that it would contain any useful information.

Especially with the way that the first few pages were written.

"Year 645, 12th Month, Day 11."

"Breakfast was good this morning. It was eggs and bacon, just the way that I like it."

The person that wrote this diary didn't seem to care about recording important events. It seemed that the person that this diary belonged to was someone that just wrote this diary for the sake of writing something, so there weren't any actual important entries that were in here.

I really felt like stopping after reading a few pages since it was just the diary of a mundane person that didn't seem to record anything important.

But this was the only thing that the skeletal rats brought back that was of any interest and it wasn't as if there was anything to do while waiting for them to come back.

So in the end, I continued reading the diary.

Both Wang Rong and Iris were also attracted by this thing and came to read it over my shoulders.

But it seemed that both of them were disappointed as well by the content of the diary.

That was until we reached a certain point in the diary where the tone of the diary completely shifted.

It went from a casual recount of one's daily life to a serious entry that involved…

"Year 650, 2nd Month, Day 16."

"The gates suddenly opened and out poured these strange invaders from another world. They didn't hesitate to attack our people, sweeping across the lands and causing great destruction in our world. I had no choice but to join the army myself to fight back these invaders. I hope that I will be able to come back alive."

After that shift in tone, the diary completely changed.

It was a record of the owner's time spent fighting against the invaders that poured out of the gate.

It described how the owner suffered during the war and how many of his comrades he lost during the war.

At the same time, it became a record of despair as the tone of the diary slowly shifted.

With the way that the diary was written, it was clear that the civilization that the owner of the diary belonged to suffered in their war against the invaders. It was clear that they just weren't able to fight back the invaders that came out of the gates and eventually fell to them.

At the end of the diary, the owner even stated his regret over not being able to do anything to stop the invaders.

At the end of the diary, the owner wrote…

"If you are reading this diary of mine, I hope that you are living in a world where the invaders were driven out. I hope that you won't have to suffer through the war like we did."

It was a hopeful message, but it was clear that this was false hope.

All three of us couldn't help taking a deep breath after reading these final words.

We looked at each other with strange looks, but none of us said anything.

After all, what could we say after reading that depressing diary?

It was hard for us to even process our thoughts after reading that.

But it wasn't as if being silent was the way to go.

After a long silence, I finally broke it by saying, "It's clear what happened here, right?"

The other two nodded in agreement before Wang Rong asked, "But how are we reading this when the Abyss Demons are still fighting those sand people? This is clearly from a time that is beyond what the current situation is like."

I shook my head before saying, "This is a dungeon, it doesn't follow rules like this."

Wang Rong had a confused look on his face, but Iris said, "This dungeon is a separated space created inside of the Abyss. It's a space that has already been embedded into the Abyss completely."

Wang Rong still had a confused look on his face at first, but then he slowly seemed to get what we were implying.

Both Iris and I had already figured out what this place was based on the clues from the diary.

But as for me, I had something else as well that helped me figure this out.

I remembered what Sun Xiang told us about the Hidden Dungeons.

We would know once we saw it for ourselves…that was what he said.

And now that I've read this diary, I was slowly starting to understand what he meant by this.

It took a while for Wang Rong to figure it out, but he eventually said, "Then you're saying that this Hidden Dungeon is what remains of their world?"

Both Iris and I slowly nodded in response to this.

This Hidden Dungeon was most likely what remained of the world that the owner of this diary came from after it was invaded by the Abyss Demons. It was pulled into the Abyss and turned into this Hidden Dungeon where they seemed to be forced to live their lives as monsters in a dungeon.

When this thought sunk in, it was quite the sobering one.

After all, the same thing is happening to our world right now.

If we were to lose to the invasion of the Abyss, did that mean that we would be pulled into the Abyss as a Hidden Dungeon.

Would we also become helpless people living in a dungeon, waiting for others to kill us for experience?

It really seemed like a bleak future…