Chapter 136 - Familiar face
If it wasn't for the fact that each member of the group was carrying a light crystal with them, they wouldn't have been able to see a thing. They had long gone passed the entrance of the cave which was the only source of light from outside and could no longer tell how deep in the mountain they were.
The light crystal shined brightly and each member was taking their time examining the steel door. Just like the red door, underneath it was composed of thick steel and had a circle style pattern down the middle.
Dan was currently fiddling around with the door to see if there was any way he could open it.
"Seriously, so there really is no way to open the door apart from Ray?" Dan said as he pushed his hand on the door.
Monk and Gary had explained what had happened when they went down to the red door before. They wanted to make sure that the rest of the group was prepared for anything, especially after what had happened last time.
Dan then walked over to the edge of the cave wall where he could see the steel door sticking around it. He looked at it for a moment before hitting it with his spear.
"What are you doing that for?" Martha asked.
"Well, maybe we can dig around it."
Dan continued to hit the cave wall by the side until a chunk of the wall came off. Underneath the chunk though was just more of the steel wall.
"It's best if you stop doing that." Slyvia said, "We don't know how far in this wall goes and I would hate for the cave to collapse on us."
"Fine, I'll just leave it to Ray then."
Ray then stepped forward and placed his hand on the door and just like last time a notification screen appeared.
As soon as Ray selected yes, the circular lock down the centre of the door, started to move. And suddenly the two steel doors moved apart into the side of the cave.
"What impressive machinery," Slyvia said.
"How come it worked when Ray touched the door?" Dan asked as he looked towards Gary and Monk.
Both of them simply shrugged their shoulders. Ray wasn't prepared to tell the others who he really was yet or that he had this special system.
"Is it because he's the chosen one?" Kyle said as he thought back to their dragon knight meeting they'd had a while back.
"Oh are you talking about the prophecy? So maybe the divine being really is down here." Dan said excitedly.
"Come on let's go," Ray said in order to stop the others from talking.
Ray didn't like the fact that they were talking about him. Ray himself didn't have any clue why everything was happening and he dam well didn't want to be part of some so-called prophecy.
As the group walked towards the steel door, they could see a large spiral staircase leading downward. Their light crystals only allowed them to see so far and there was no way for them to tell how deep it was.
Jasmine and Monk started to shiver.
"This is just like last time," Monk said.
Gary ignored the two of them and started to walk ahead of everyone else. Gary felt like he was close to discovering something big and he wasn't going to let anything get in the way of that.
The spiral staircase was long. After walking downward for half an hour, there was still no end to the staircase insight.
"Are we really going all the way down underneath the academy?" Monk asked.
"It looks like it," Jasmine replied.
The group continued to walk down the stairs while making small talk with each other.
"What are you going to say when we meet the Divine Being?" Kyle asked.
"I don't know but I hope she's gorgeous," Martha replied.
"She…what makes you think the Divine Being's a girl?" Dan said.
"What makes you think it's a boy?"
"Well you know, it's all powerful and stuff, so it has to be a guy."
"You know Dan, did you ever even beat Slyvia once in a ranking match? I didn't think so."
Martha and Slyvia then looked at each other. "Boys"
Finally, after another half an hour of walking down, they had reached the end of the staircase. The staircase had led them into a large church-like room. There were wooden benches on either side all facing in one direction. All the benches were currently pointing at a single statue in the room.
The statue was of a beautiful woman who was wearing a hood that mages often wore. In her right hand, the statue held a staff with an orb attached to the end and around the orb there were two small wings.
The group stared at the statue for a while before searching the room for any other entrances. Everyone had split up and gone looking around the large hall apart from Ray. Ray was stood still staring at the statue.
Slyvia noticed the Ray was still staring at the statue.
"I know she's beautiful Ray but I have to remind you she's only a statue."
"Do you know who she is?" Ray replied.
Slyvia looked at the statue and the room they were in for a while before giving an answer.
"If I would have to guess, this place seems like it used to be a temple or some type of place for worship. Nowadays it's taboo for anyone to have a drawing or try to recreate an image of the Divine Being but in the past, it wasn't so much."
"Are you saying this is the Divine Being?"
"I think it's a possibility."
Ray didn't say much else, but he had the strange feeling of familiarity when looking at the statue as if he had seen this person before. But for some reason, Ray just couldn't quite put his finger on it.
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