The Accidental Vampire

The entire place was more empty than what Atlas expected when he was coming. In fact, it was just too empty, which made it even harder to find just what they were supposed to find here.

Even Lilith couldn’t help him with that. They were all quite ignorant when it came to this place. Here, Lilith’s guess was as good as his own.

The only thing which could be suspected was the fountain pond, but even that didn’t convince him entirely. He felt as if he was missing something. As for what that could be, even he wasn’t sure.

He walked to the nearby wall, which had the same symbol as the one on the back of his hand.

He observed the wall, stopping right beside it. His fingers gently touched the mark on the wall, feeling the rough texture of the wall. The mark on the wall seemed to be carved using something rough.

Vor also stepped near Atlas. “You think there might be a secret chamber?”

“A secret chamber?” Atlas repeated.

“Yeah. I’ve seen something like this many times. People make secret chambers to make it even harder for people to get to their treasures. I don’t know if there would be one here or not, but if you’re looking for something that isn’t here, then there might be one.”

“How do you get to those secret chambers usually?” Atlas asked as he didn’t know much about it. If Vor was older and more knowledgeable, then it was possible for him to help in this situation.

“There are different ways. Each person can have a different way of getting to that secret chamber in case they made it. Though one thing which is common in all those is the trigger.”

“Trigger?”

“Yeah. They occasionally leave triggers behind to open the path to secret chambers, which would be hard to get to otherwise. It could be anything…”

“A trigger huh. Just like that…” Atlas remembered the trigger Castiel left behind in the castle cell. He accidentally pressed that trigger, opening the secret chamber.

It was possible that Castiel received that idea from this place? In that case, the triggers should be similar.

“Check the walls. Check every point! There should be something.”

Atlas immediately thought of the possibility and started checking the wall where he was standing. He started pressing every point, wondering if he was going to find a similar trigger.

Vor took another wall and started looking as well.

Atlas mostly checked the centre of the wall where the mark was carved since that seemed like an important part. If there was a trigger, it was most likely hidden there.

After hundreds of pushes at different points, he finally noticed something. He was right! There was a similar trigger. There was a small portion in the wall which sunk inside the wall with a light push.

Atlas stepped back, waiting for something to happen. Unfortunately, even after five minutes, nothing happened. The sunken part of the wall returned to its usual position.

As Atlas was about to try again, he heard Vor call to him. “I found something!’

Atlas looked back, noticing that Vor had also found something similar. There was a small portion of the wall that was sunk inside, only to return to its usual position.

“That wall has it too? That means the other two walls might have as well,” Atlas frowned, taking a guess. It wasn’t just one wall.

“Lilith! Luna, take one of the other two walls and look for a similar trigger. If I’m not wrong, a single trigger won’t work. These points are like the four key fragments. All need to be together for it to work.”

Since one wasn’t working it made Atlas feel that it must work simultaneously as well. If the other two walls had triggers as well, it was going to confirm his suspicions.

Lilith took the third wall, and Luna took the fourth wall, only leaving Lancaster empty handed.

Lancaster remained near the pond.

After searching for a short time, Lilith and Luna also managed to locate the same trigger in the middle of the marks on the wall.

“Found it!” Lilith exclaimed shortly followed by Luna.

“Perfect. At the count of three, we’ll all push that trigger!” He instructed them all, not wanting to make a mistake. At the same time, he also hoped that he was right and that it was going to work.

“One!”

Everyone placed their hands on the wall, waiting for the count to hit three.

“Two!”

“Three!”

As soon as he finished the count, Atlas pressed on the trigger. Lilith, Luna, and Vor did the same. All four of them pressed it together, and for a moment, it seemed to be working as well.

They heard a crunching noise, which made them realize that something was happening for sure.

“Everyone, I think you should look here,” Lancaster called out everyone’s attention to him, looking down.

He was able to see a small opening in the ground that was kept hidden before. The small opening in the ground was like a small safe that was made to keep something safe.

Inside the small opening, Lancaster was also able to see something… Something that attracted his attention right away. He was able to see a beautiful black jade lying there, emitting incredulous energies that made him feel really uncomfortable.

It was the same for Vor. This strange energy was quite repulsive for him for some reason. He was really hating this energy.

On the other hand, Atlas found this energy to be quite refreshing. Being in the presence of this energy only made him feel stronger and nothing else.

He took his hands off the wall and walked to Lancaster, keeping his eyes on the small opening in the ground.

There was only a single piece of stone there, but that stone appeared to contain an otherworldly power.

“This must be it,” Atlas reached out his hand, touching the beautiful stone that he believed could help him.