The Manor which Orion couldn't help but compare to a haunted place, surely at one point would have been a very beautiful home of someone important. But now its nothing but only ruins.
Surprisingly the Manor wasn't rundown as Orion was anticipating, that ancient magic really has maintained this place from any sort of physical harm, but that was only limited to the physical harm.
The place still looked haunted to the core.
'Spider webs, creepy insects, nests, vines, strange noises which creep the fuck out of you. You name it.
Aka the perfect place to visit if you have a girlfriend and you are attention-starved at this point. A little physical contact would also be there if you play your card right. '
'Why the hell am I thinking of something like that right now.' Orion just realized just how much sleep-deprived he was.
And though he could use magic to clean away from himself but that could cause him a piece of important evidence which he didn't want to happen.
Orion started to the outside of the manor, checking everything. Both scientific and magical standpoint.
Checking for any magical attacks, raids, even scent of wizards and vampires.
Good things that the place was filled with scent of vampires. Bad thing that he couldn't scent a wizard there. But that was expected considering how old the barrier was outside and how weaken it has gotten over the years. It was clear that no one had put magic in that barrier for a long time.
Making it weak to that level. So Orion's best guess was the Manor at one point used to belong to a wizard or witch and later Vampires captured it. Seeing at how discrete location this thing has built. It kind of understand that no one can find it.
In fact, they also only found the Manor by luck. It was a location on a diary they found in one of the caves they visited earlier. He has to say that in this case, he surely has lucked out.
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Orion took his merry time, checking almost everywhere in the manor. He didn't want anything happening here.
And he soon found some disturbing things.
The manor seems to have only been abandoned for less than 10 years. But the interesting thing was it looked like it been centuries since anyone came here.
This was what was throwing off both Merlin and Orion. They both clearly spot someone living here. He wasn't sure who but they did. With a little ancient magic at work, its not hard to find who walk the tiles of the Manor the last time, and more importantly when was that time.
[This is troubling.
The Manor looks abandoned for hundreds of years but someone did live here just only 10 years ago. Someone who even had magic otherwise there would have been no magical record in the wards.
Those records only form when someone stays here for a long period of time. Months or even years.] Merlin laid down the facts in front of Orion. Both were rocking their brain to find out why someone would live in his kind of run-down place.
Well there could be many many reasons, but that doesn't make sense why let the place rot like this? Even the most laziest and unhealthiest kind won't like to sleep with Scorpions and bullet ants.
Even Vampires won't live in that kind of situation.
"The information is to little to determine anything right now. Let's keep looking. Have not even covered the entire Manor till now." Orion after not getting anything explanation about the situation with the limited knowledge he had just shook his head and decided to explore the entire Manor first.
Exploration sound interesting but in the magical world this could be deadly, touch a single wrong things with curse in it and you are a goner. Ask Dumbledore he knows.
So no one, not even someone like Dumbledore can be easygoing in places like this.
But Orion is made different, he just draws all the magical power and absorbed it, Curse or No Cuse, It doesn't matter shit to him. This also gives him an advantage which others lack.
The ability to get an hands-on experience with things if he so wants to. This particular ability lead him to find a secret door in the Manor, because why fucking not.
Let me quote, no other wizard or even a Vampire would be able to do this, before they will try magic. Trick or just senses, but that the problem lies. Its not possible to find the secret door Orion got.
The only way could have been the old school, start touching and messing everything until you hear a secret door opening, approach.
"Finally" Orion grin, knowing that he was getting to the good stuff now.
[Carefull, it could be dangerous.] Merlin reminded from the side, even went on head to check what's in the secret area. Being a memory he isn't afraid of anything.
Orion just grunted as he slowly made his way down with the help of stone stairs. Reminding him of Skyrim and its dungeons.
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Unlike what he was expecting, instead of a treasure chest and a lot of reincarnated zombies, Orion found a study room. This place unlike the Manor was well kept and not even a ounch of dust could be sense here. The magical wards here were perfectly fine.
"This sure looks fancy," Orion remarked as he saw a very well-developed and decorated old room which was kept like this for a Millennia. There was a leather cover, a fireplace, an old-style pensieve, tons of books, fancy gold equipments and even materials which even considered rare to almost exist 1000 years ago.
Even Merlin couldn't help but whistle.
Orion eyes slowly was taking a dangerous glint.
'The person who left this surely put a lot of effort into this. It would be a waste to let this all to rot here forever.
No.... I must not allow something like this to happen.' Orion internally said as he greedily started to calculate the price of those things in the room according to today's market value.
Merlin on the other hand just rolls his eyes seeing this. He had a good idea of what the boy was thinking.
But even he has to say that it really would be a shame if they left these things and this place to rot here like this.
This was when Merlin suddenly saw a portrait. The moment his eyes locked onto that portrait, it felt like his breathing stopped. Their eyes widened as he he felt like a lump was stuck in his throat. He almost freezes.
Orion didn't notice this, he only kept on checking out the place until he got a Box in his hands, which was used to support the table as one of its legs was broken and was a little short. If he has to say then in the entire room, that was the only imperfection.
Though it look bad but Orion didn't care too much, he was just about to remove the unassuming box so that he could move the table itself when he felt it. It looked so unassuming, there wasn't even any magic in that BRick. But, he felt something from it.
Like he is the only one who can feel this and no one else.
A tremble rang in his body as he saw that his pendant was shaking ever so slightly...
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Again at cooking. What do you think is happening here?
Here is the clue, remember that vampire that he killed at the beginning?
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