The reason why he had stopped 50Kms from the lake was simple, there was a huge waterfall Tony guessed it was around 300Km tall of pure rocky cliff face, The larger than life waterfall was smashing into the rocks below creating a misty almost rainbow effect over the whole lake even creeping into the lush green forest.
Inside Tony's spirit sense he could see a secret tunnel directly behind the waterfall with two huge Orc statues on either side of the entrance. " There are 2 Orc statues outside the entrance but from my spirit sense no orcs inside? where did they all go" Tony thought as he couldn't see any living Orc's within his spirit sense but as he walked closer and closer to the entrance he couldn't help but feel the unmistakable feeling of death coming from this ravine. He hopped up from behind the rock he was hiding from tore a tree out of the ground with his bare hands and broke all the branches off creating a long wood log that he then stepped on to create a flat handle for his hand. " At Least I could smash stuff with it. I don't know any magic so for now it will have to do" with his new weapon and unbelievable strength he started to walk down to the secret entrance
Tony-" These statues are ancient even on earth I've never seen something look this old and they give me this creepy not dead at all vibe, not even Stonehenge felt this ancient," He said while walking past them and into the Cave once inside he saw moss covering the stone walls, grass growing out of the floor, small rodents scurried and hid at his every step "Disgusting how could such a sacred place turn into this," he said aloud while walking in.
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A large stone door fell down closing the entrance behind him right now his heart was beating fast he had read many fantasy books in his past life and knew ancient monoliths + auto close door = bad situation as he was thinking this he started reminiscing about his past life, Tony was no nerd in his past life he lived a hard life sent to boarding school at the age of 8 by his rich father who he had never even met, Joined the military at 17 only to get discharged for drinking on the job, after that he earned money by underworld bare-knuckle brawling and petty crime until he met his end in his apartment at the age of 22, "I have power in this world, a world where strength means all there is no law or rules when you have the strength to crush them" To Tony strength was law it controlled all money, fame and all that other stuff was not interesting to him, he gave respect to strong people in his past life and took from the weak to encourage strength that was his code.
As Tony walked down the stairs he noticed some carvings on the walls behind the moss, after pulling the moss down he realized it was a large M written in blood carved onto the wall, Tony had a guess it stood for Mages but wasn't really sure. The deeper he went the aura of death was getting stronger and stronger, After about 15 minutes he finally reached the bottom of the staircase and what he saw almost made him throw up, Thousands of Orc body parts lay about scattered around the cave in the middle of the cage was a huge stone temple that looked the be built by the orcs but on the wooden pillars hanging over the side walls hundreds of Orcs were hung deceased a huge M was made of Orc body's once again
"What the fuck? *Eugh* oh my god there are so many dead Grey Orcs" Tony said while almost throwing up once again, after moving around all the bodies and making sure not to step on them, he made it to the center of the large cave he walked up the blood covered temple steps and through the front door " Mok'ra"-Hello" Tony said in the orc language hoping for at least one survivor, But something was off "all the bodies seem fresh and the blood is still wet and not dried yet the ,ruins, walls, armor, blades, all have been touched by time yet these pour orcs haven't rotted away what is up with that" he thought
As he entered the temple he could see a large pillar in the middle that was around 10 ft tall and made out of this black metal like he had never seen before. It was matt yet glossy he couldn't really describe it besides it looked like the color of space?, around the pillar was almost like a roman fighting arena sand on the floor with 5 ft tall black and grey metal sheets forming the edges of the ring and then in true colosseum fashion there were seats all around circling all the way up the temple, finally he saw the kings throne up at the top of the temple there was a platform with a huge black throne with skulls lit up with red eyes and bones made out of the same metal as the pillar below.
" I wonder what that metal is made of" he said while walking up to the black metal pillar in the middle of the room, he reached out and set his hand on it to try and feel the durability of the metal only for it to be a liquid! It immediately came off the pillar and started to cover his body he tried to pull his hand away only to realize it was stuck in the pillar, as the black miasma type liquid covered his body he could feel immense power powering into his body but it wasn't normal? It wasn't mana? Mana worked with the body and it should be a smooth comforting process. This black miasma felt like it was stuffing souls into his body and making his body use it as mana.
Tony could hear screams so loud saying "please" "save us" "HELP" "IT HURTS" over and over again in his head he tried to put his hands on his head only to realize he was still stuck to the pillar, an immense headache rushed over him while the screaming was still happening in the background, right now he was fighting for his consciousness his legs buckled and he slumped over against the pillar taking his free right arm to hold his head the last thing he heard before completely fading off was "please" "save us" "HELP" "IT HURTS" over and over again.