chapter 4
Drake looked around the old building with curiosity, wondering why he had never seen this place before,and it was a huge building at that so he definitely ought to have seen it before since he usually passed this route home.
So he proceeded to the door to wait out the rain and also explore the building,the door was huge and was made with wood,it had some gold designs all over coming together and forming an interesting pattern , pulling at the handle he found it wasn't locked so Drake entered the building cautiously.
The moment he entered,the door slammed shut which scared the hell out of him,patting his chest and grumbling,Drake proceeded into the building after confirming he wasn't going to be stuck in the building forever.
There was a long passage which demarcated the rooms on each sides with huge statues before each room,the statues were human looking,so Drake thought this might be the people who occupied those rooms in the past.
Walking slowly Drake entered all the rooms and checked their content,after finding nothing of significance,he concluded that it was just an abandoned building with no importance though he discovered it seemed very old, ancient even.
"I wonder how this building got here,seems very mysterious",- Drake thought as he proceeded to the last room he had yet to check.
Entering the room,it looked very lavish,the flooring was made with marble, the curtains and bedspread made with velvet and the room had also had a lot of antiques, the room was very large and had a king sized bed with wooden furnishings adorned with gold patterns,-
"this should be the master's room and I guess he likes antiques."Drake thought as he looked around the room.
Drake checked every nook and cranny of the room hoping to find something of importance,but there was nothing noteworthy of in the room since everything had mostly been destroyed in the course of time.
Drake left the room disappointed as he didn't find anything special. Going back through the passage he looked at the statue close to the room,
"this must be the master right?"Drake asked no one in particular,-"he must have been quite a big shot in his life time"Drake thought as he looked at the statue curiously.The statue was made with stone and was holding a scepter, the scepter was made with some kind of ore, at the top of the scepter was a shining azure coloured orb though it seemed like the shine was on its last legs, the statue had a well sculpted face which looked extremely proud though was very handsome
"the carver sure did a great job in expressing the man's character making it look realistic and the body was all evenly toned in all the right places. Drake was kinda jealous of the man's builded figure.
"sheesh it's just a statue snap out of it"- Drake said to himself.
As he looked at the sceptre,Drake was drawn to the light of the orb and touched the it.As he touched the orb,the light of the orb dimmed and it pulled a little of his strength along with it then a compartment opened beside the statue,-"this is getting interesting" Drake smiled half-heartedly as he felt a little weak and excited,-
"this better be worth it" Drake thought as he proceeded into the compartment.
Stepping inside,there was a range of stairs which went all the way down with no end in sight it was also quite dusty and dark. Proceeding down the stairs the lamps at each sides of the walls lit up gradually as he went down
"at least there's light"- Drake thought as he continued his walk down the stairs. Finally after about half an hour he reached the last step.
"fuck that was so tiring I think this will be enough excerise for this month"- Drake groaned as he wiped his sweat.
After resting a little Drake moved to the clearing at the front. There was an altar were a book was placed, at the side,a lot of weapon cases ranging from swords to short swords,daggers,arrows, knives,sabers and all sort of weapons were placed beautifully. "Looks like this building was really from the ancient era "-Drake thought as he looked at the weapons.
There were also different armours in different shapes and sizes what surprised Drake the most was the pile of gold at the end of the room.
"Wow, this is a huge jackpot"- Drake laughed excitedly as he rushed towards it but suddenly realizing something Drake stopped in his tracks.
"That proud looking man wouldn't have made taking his treasures so easy right it wouldn't be fun dying clueless in an abandoned building"-Drake thought aloud as he looked around cautiously hoping to find any anomaly.After looking around for some time and finding nothing wrong he proceeded to the altar since it was the first thing within his reach.
Getting on the altar there was just a small looking book. Picking up the book,he checked the content but the book was written in a weird language so he just kept it in his backpack -"might be useful"Drake thought as he left the altar going to the weapon area,he checked all the weapons and was drawn to a sword which had a red sword handle and was engraved with red markings around the blade.He also kept that in his bag and took a numerous amount of gold that could feel his backpack as he was about to leave,he saw a box that was kept aside in a corner so he went towards it. Picking up the box, it was blue in colour with light blue engravings but the material didn't look like anything he had seen before and he thought it was the case for the proud man too since he had left the box at the far corner of the room and was covered in webs
Trying to open the box was futile so he just kept it and left the room. After climbing the stairs back up the compartment closed back up and the azure orb crumbled into pieces
"Looks like it's the last time going in there"Drake thought sadly as he remembered all other treasures that where In there. It was already dark when he got back home.So wishing his parents goodnight he went to his room, sitting on the bed,he pondered on how to open the box but it still proved futile so he checked the sword he brought and was still dazzled by the beauty of the sword, caressing the sword he got cut and his blood fell on the box and was absorbed by the sword. The box clicked open and the sword gave a dazzling glow like it had been awakened and soon dimmed.
"Ouch!so sharp"Drake hissed in pain but soon forgot about it after he saw the box open. Keeping the sword back in his bag ,he picked up the box and opened it and was met with a dazzling light.He felt a sharp pain in his head and cursed then he collapsed to the ground.