On reaching home I called mom. "mom, I have something important to talk about."
"What is it?"
"Let's go to meet your old friend."
"what frien-"
I took her hand and we entered the gate. We immediately reached the place where I had left.
But when we reached Leh had disappeared and the female dwarf of yesterday was standing.
"I am Leila. I saved you yesterday remember." She came near us and whispered, "grandpa is hiding in that corner" pointing toward the end of the room which was connected to the backyard. We went in to see Leh facing the wall covering his ears.
"leh"
He turned around. He was shivering as if he had seen a ghost. "hello, Maya"
My mom was grinning. A shiver went down my spine. I was sure that Leh had had a traumatizing experience at her hand.
Then for the next half an hour, Leh was scolded by mom. Apparently, he had suddenly left after the war without saying goodbye and had not contacted them ever after. Leh had also brought me aside and had told me not to tell her that he sent me to hunt a dragon.
After that, started the talk about the gun. Leh liked the idea a lot and quickly assembled a team to work on it. That night Leh and Leila returned with us to have dinner at our place. Dad drank a lot of alcohol with him talking about the past and stuff. From the next day, the plan started in full swing.
After months of trial and error, the gun was ready. At first, it took time for the bullet to form and shoot but then we had added a fragment of the dragon's magic stone to the guns which made the shooting speed faster.
Increasing the accuracy was the real deal but we had managed to do it somehow. I invested some points in πππ« to increase the accuracy. The bullet strength could be determined by the amount of mana supplied to it. The gun was especially made for someone like me who had an insanely high mp. At full power, it could even destroy a mountain. Even the looks were of top quality. Glossy silver in color. It looked like a classic pistol with a long barrel with magic circles everywhere. With this, the phase-1 of the gun was over.
After a few days of break, phase 2 started. The phase-2 was aimed at changing the mode of the gun using my spatial magic. It was still in process when I decided to explore the ruins which I had come across by chance a few months ago. Despite having the guns I was still accompanied by Ash who was worried. I did not my parents about it thinking that I would return by evening but luck had something else in store for me.
The ruin looked very old. The walls were all crumbled down and covered with Moses. There was a huge wooden gate on the Northern side of the tower. I entered it. The inside wall quite big. Despite being a tower it only had only one floor which was very strange. The inside looked like a laboratory. There were all types of organs and other monster parts kept in huge jars. A book had been left open on the desk which had now mostly decayed. The person who lived here had most probably left in a hurry.
The bookshelf somewhat felt odd. I removed all the books and knocked on the cupboard. As I had suspected there was a hollow space behind the shelf. I blasted the cupboard to see a passage behind it. I entered the passage. The guns were in my hand. It was dark inside. As soon as I enter the passage closed.
"Zack, be careful. There is something wrong."
"yes, if the person wanted to hide this place the passage would have been closed from before but it closed after we entered which means that we are caught in a trap."
"The passage is most likely connected to a different space."
"That means someone other than me can use space magic"
"I don't think that's the case. The person who made this had probably used some ancient treasure. Even the wall is made up of material I had never seen before."
"Hmm"
We walked slowly looking around for any traps but there were none.
Soon we reached a huge room. When we entered the room it was light by the runes on the walls and the door closed behind us.