Chapter 1053

Even after being doubted, Grant didn't get angry. He tapped the ashes from his cigarette and continued his story. "It was pure coincidence that I discovered this rock. We had run out of water, and everyone was on the brink of death from thirst. One of my team members tripped, and when we helped him up, we uncovered an entire flight of stairs! "After breaking through a stone slab, we entered the interior of Kroraina. The city had been buried under several feet of sand, invisible from the outside. From a distance, it just looked like a small hill. "Inside the city, we found a lot of skeletons. There were no signs of knife wounds or struggle on them, so the kingdom couldn't have been destroyed by war." Marshall interjected, "What about natural causes? That could have led to the kingdom's downfall as well!" It seemed as though Grant had anticipated Marshall's comment. "Natural causes take time to manifest. Even if it had been a magnitude ten earthquake, there would have been signs of