Farhen had been moving around the maze for roughly an hour now he had explored three of the 8 passages and what he saw left him shocked.
One was like a back door from the tower which lead to a location on the outskirts of the city , while the second one he entered was full of traps which if not for his training as an assassin he would definitely be dead by now , leaving the trap filled passage and finally entering into the third one which led to a cell where a lot of prisons which Farhen could only classify as torture chambers where , their where skeletons hanging from the ceiling by a chain upside down , while some where chained in weird ways .
If Farhen could sum his feelings into a single word it will be ' inhumane ' , the way the bodies where chained it was clear they where been tortured , Farhen would have thought they where being tortured by the goblins , but from the looks of their bones they had been here for a very long time way before the goblins even invaded the city , and let's be honest goblins where the type to kill on sight not the cruel torturing type so it was definitely not the goblins .
Which only meant they where placed here by the ruling nobles of Elgade city and although Farhen wanted to be optimistic and view them as hardened criminals of the city who got what they deserved after doing god knows what or maybe even mass murdering innocent people , but deep down he doubted that logic .
Living the ' torture chamber ' Farhen took the fourth passage and prayed his luck would see him through.
Entering the passage he could see some light torches on the walls which had obviously just been put on , Farhen thanked his lucky stars for finally chosing the right passage , walking slowly in he noticed the Mana in the air started to get more thicker and more potent in the area with each step he took .
After walking for about 30 seconds the Mana had become so thick that he could even see it with his naked eyes , it was so potent that if he was to launch a spell it would have at least 3 times more strength than normal , but unfortunately for Farhen he was an assassin not a mage who was based on casting spells , all he new where spells that go along side assassin and nothing more.
' What's up with this dense Mana flow is their a Mana stone buried here ' Farhen couldn't help but think .
It took another 30 seconds for the narrow passage to start expanding into a more wider space .
While the walls where expanding as he walked Farhen saw something that made him double take in disbelief ,
their where tiny shinning blue Mana crstals in the walls .
Farhen opened his mouth in disbelief as he saw this sight , this was not something you see everyday even seeing it once before a person died was a miracle .
There was Mana everywhere but a place so filled with Mana that Mana crystals starts to grow where sacred , the amount of blessed cave in the kingdom can be counted on two hands and the kingdom as a rough size of one third of the continent , A place so dense with Mana where sacred place which was only assessed by a lucky few namely the royal family and a lucky few high noble families who curried enough favours to allow one of its members to use for a limited amount of time.
It multiplies the rate at which the Mana crystals develops just by staying inside one and practicing with magic , but since it was so limited in numbers the royals monopolized it only using it on their household to boost their powers, and on those nobles who managed to perform merritous deeds , any Blessed spot found was to be reported to the royal family or the ruler of the land is going to be deemed a traitor of the kingdom and executed , and of course all this was done so the royals could mantain a monopoly of power while keeping the nobles in check , it was seeing as a manifestation of the planet's will and a sacred place .
So imagine Farhen's horror when he realized a blessing like this had managed to fall into the greedy hands of the goblins.
' Those damned nobles must have been hiding this from the royals , if they where caught they could have been executed , but they still died any way and not a kingdom class treasure is in the hands of the goblins ' Farhen thought.
Farhen seeing it knew his task just got harder because in a blessed spot like this Mages where nigh invincible with their overpowered attacks and quick recharge of Mana while in one , so if the first attempt at assassinating the shaman fails he would be screwed and will have to rethink his strategy.
Going deeper into the passage he could make out the unintelligible grunts of the goblins moving closer he saw the goblin perform a weird ritual right in front of a wall filled with mana crystals .
The Shaman was drawing some weird signs on the floor from the looks of it , it looked like a circle filled with strange words that Farhen couldn't make out .
The Shaman was chanting some words will writing down some strange symbols , after writing the words , the goblin brought out the shining white Mana Crystal tied in a necklace on his neck it was small and round as big as an eye ball but the mana coming out from it was enough to further increase the already dense Mana in the passage to a whole new level and was shining far brighter than any of the blue Mana crystals .
The shaman said some strange words which made the symbols on the ground light up and the white Mana Crystal float in the middle .
Farhen had not seeing this kind of glowing symbols before but for some reason he just knew that he couldn't let this shaman finish what it was doing if not it might be to late to stop him .
Dashing towards the shaman who was so focused on the floating Crystal and the shining symbols to notice him.
He Brandished his sword aiming for a quick death ready to slice off the shaman's head but was left speechless when his sword was stopped by an invisible barrier .
Clanccck.
A barrier of some kind seemed to have stopped his sword from moving any further and no matter how hard he tried his sword couldn't move an inch instead it simply pushed back Farhen who landed not so gracefully on his feet.
The shaman seeing a human about to cut of his head was first shocked but then regained itself to face this intruder.
putting back his Mana Crystal back on his neck which made the symbols go back to just plain writings on the floor .
" Human " , The shaman shouted summoning a fireball towards Farhen who weaved it effortlessly .
Boom .
Noticing the damage that little fireball did Farhen had no plan of taking that kind of damage head on.
The shaman seeing the intruding human dodge his attack decided to take things more seriously.
Summoning a few fireball towards farhen who uses his training to the fullest moving through the fire ball while picking a little stone throwing it at the shaman.
Thump .
It hit the shaman right on his head who screamed in pain and looked at the human who dared throw stones at him with anger throwing more fireballs at the human .
' Well good news is that what ever barrier stopped my attack before was gone , bad news is with the rate at which this block head is throwing fire attack the already limited air in this passage will be used up sooner than later I gat to find a way to defeat him before I faint due to lack of air' . Farhen thought