Jess and Arnold were still trying to open the door. They had tried to make use of brute force but to no one surprise it did not worked, they tried to find some mechanism on it or around it but nothing.
After 30 minutes they were short on ideas, Jess decided to clean her hand in the waterfall, it was not a great idea as she almost got pulled by the current.
She moved back and leaned on the door, when her hands touched the door, the blue inscriptions shone brigther than ever. Jess step back from the door, it rumbled and started to open slowly revealing an eery long grey corridor.
"What happened ?!" Jess was surprised that the door opened, she did not know what special thing she did for it to open. "Great, I don't know how you did it but it's open now so we can go in and see what is hiding behind this door." Arnold said enthusiastically.
At the instant the two of them walked past the door, it immediately closed behind them. "Hu ? We are stuck in this place now. We can only go deeper so let's go for the adventure." Arnold remarked helplessly with a frown. "Yeah ... we can only go forward, just hope nothing will go wrong." Jess added shooking her head.
They were advancing cautiously in this unknown corridor, Arnold walked on a tile which triggered a trap. A shower of arrow came from behind them, Arnold unsheathed his swords and deflected as many arrow as he could while Jess placed herself behind Arnold and tried to evade the arrow he could not stop.
When this shower of arrow finally stopped, the two of them were heavily panting and Arnold got pierced by a few arrow, one in the left leg, three in the right arm and one in the left arm.
"You look like a Hedgehog ha ha ha !" Jess laughed when she saw what Arnold looked like with those arrows in his body. "Shut up Jess, it hurts ! Now we should be even more careful." Arnold retorted while he was removing one by one the arrow in his body, luckily it was all minor wounds.
"Yes but it's you who triggered the trap." Jess answered him teasingly. Arnold clicked his tongue and started to walk again slowly, Jess followed him. After 5 minutes they eventually got to the end of the tunnel, they arrived in a white room where a green golem stood motionless in the center. When the two of them crossed the door the golem glowed and got up, it slowly come toward them.
"Beware I don't think it comes toward us with any good will." Jess warned, she pulled out her bow and shot an arrow on the golem, however it rebounded on it without causing it any harm. "Problematic, if I can't even damage it, we will have great trouble." Jess remarked.
"Yeah ..." Arnold unsheated his swords and dashed toward it, he tried to slash the golem only to find that his attack had done nothing to it. The golem lifted his hand and smashed it down on Arnold. Arnold threw himself on the side to dodge its fist, he finished behind the golem and saw on his back a glowing green globe.
"Jess on his back ! the green globe." He instinctively knew it was its weak point, he rushed toward it and thrusted his swords on it. The golem rapidly turned and slapped Arnold, he got projected on the wall so hard that he dented it.
Jess didn't miss this opportunity and shot 3 arrows one after the other on this weird globe, the first hit it, didn't destoy it but weakened the globe ; the second pierced the globe but still did not destoyed it and when the last arrow hit the globe it finally shattered.
When the globe shattered, the golem stopped and the light in the golem slowly dimmed and eventually disappeared. "That was a tough figth, luckily you are a good archer !" Arnold exclaimed while he got up with difficulty, his whole body was aching. "Yeah ... I hope there is some good stuff as a reward at least." she sighed.
On Zach side, behind the pedestal, there was a door and on it was another inscription, he slowly approached it and read it.
{Only the fated ones will access to this room. Beware because if the fact that you are in possession of this method is known it will bring you a lot of trouble. To make it believable behind this door there is some valuable things which act as a decoy. You shall not pick things from it and let it to the ones who will think it as the greatest treasures here.}
Zach placed his hand on the handle of the door and before he could do anything dots of light arose and evelopped him. Before he could do anything or think about anything he appeared at the end of the same grey tunnel Jess and Arnold had crossed, the golem's room just few meters from him.
He went in, he saw Jess and Arnold at the back of the room, he yelled "Finally guys ! You are fine that's great !". The two of them turned back and when they saw Zach, Jess had a huge smile and started to run toward Zach. As for Arnold he had a smile but in his back he clenched his fist.
"Jess.." Before he could end his sentence Jess had already hugged him, he could see some tears rolling down her cheeks. "I thought ... we would ... never see you ... again because of me." she said while trying to catch her breath between sobs. "It's not your fault, I chose to go and pick your place." he said while caressing her hair.
"Zach ! Happy to see you in one piece." Arnold exclaimed while getting closer to them. "What did you find there guys ?" Zach asked "We don't know maybe some inheritance but we could get some good stuff. We shall continue and go to the next room maybe the golem's room was the last test." Arnold said confidently.
"You are right ! Let's find what wait us behind this door." Zach then whispered to Jess ear "Don't worry, I am fine, we will get out of this place safely."
The three of them opened the door and they were welcomed with heaps of gold coins, weapons and at the rear of the room a full bookshelf. "There we got some good stuff." Arnold said while he went toward the bookshelf at the rear. He reached the bookshelf and read what this book were about.
"What those books are talking about Arnold ?" Zach asked knowing it would be good stuff but less good than what he had. "These are physical cultivation methods and history books. There I got the starlight refining method, it is said it could permit the one who train in it to ascend and even in these it is a great one." Arnold replied while he brandished a book.
Jess and Zach were going through the heaps of gold and weapons, Jess found a bow of the greatest quality. As for Zach he put discreetly some golds in his shadow despite the instructions of the mysterious man. They both went to the bookshelf and started to browse the books on it.
Out of the blue a sword got through his torso, he was utterly confused, he looked back and the only thing he saw was Arnold with cold smile.
He did not understand why Arnold had done this, he was still processing what the reasons he could have to betray them. Jess just got the time to see what Arnold had done to Zach and was about to scream when Arnold knocked her out.
"W ... Why ... ha ... have ... you ... d ... done ... this ?" Zach said between spitting mouthful of blood. "Simply because I saw how Jess looked at you and how you looked at her. And because if I can't have her no one will have her, killing you is only the first step. In addition I can keep all the things in this room." Arnold replied to him while he gazed at Zach slowly dying.
The last thing Zach saw was Arnold taking everything valuable in a space ring and taking Jess just before leaving. Zach gulped the rest of the starlight drop hoping it would make him survive but to no avail. He was about to faint and eventually die but before it happened he heard a notification from the system.
[Hidden condition met : Host is mortally struck and is on the verge of dying.
Rewards : Title : The one who cheats Death]
He could only hear that before finally losing consciousness and dying there on the floor of the legacy's treasure trove. As for Arnold he had Jess on one of his shoulder and was going to the exit of this hell of mountain range. The two men who were monitoring them were still in front of the arch waiting and hoping that the kids were safe.
When the two of them saw Arnold with Jess on his shoulder, they were confused. Arnold nodded his head, one of the two men sliced the other throat, he dropped dead on the ground. "Young master we shall hurry and get back to the house. Especially since we have a lot of cleaning to make now." The man still alive said.