Over the course of the next day, Leonard conducted an extensive search of the castle in the hope of uncovering more clues, but apart from the symbols at the top of the tower, they found no other suspicious area.
"It feels like there's just no way to carry on—" By the morning of the third day at the castle, Mary looked visibly disheartened. "Although we've discovered more than 300 symbols, we just can't make any sense of them.
"If we really have to say we've found something, I can only say that these symbols are quite beautifully drawn, they seem more like paintings than words."
"Wait, you're saying these symbols are more like paintings than characters?" Leonard, who had been deep in thought over a pile of photos, raised his head and asked, "Are you sure of that?"