Upon hearing that, Gerald and the others were pleasantly surprised. After going through so much effort, they had finally managed to enter the vampires’ territory!
“…However, the fact that those corpses were found dead like that… It can only mean that some vampires are still alive! They’re incredibly dangerous opponents, so please be careful, everyone!” added Old Flint.
Vampires in general were an independent race that almost never had contact with people from the outside world. It definitely explained why they resented those from the outside world so much.
It was also the reason why they usually attacked any non-vampires on sight.
It certainly didn’t help that vampires were naturally fast and could easily kill any number of people they wanted.
“Not to worry, sir! All of us are experts at fighting, so we aren’t to be trifled with either! With that in mind, I believe that the vampires won’t dare to act all unrestrained on us!” replied Lech in a confident tone.
Upon hearing that, Old Flint gave no reply…
Regardless, after about ten minutes of walking, everyone finally made it out of the passageway that spanned at least a few hundred feet. Though they could’ve made it across much faster had they wanted to, they had taken their time while walking across since all manner of sharp gravel were scattered throughout the area. With that in mind, they were all honestly glad that they had thick-soled shoes on…
Either way, at the end of the passageway lay a gigantic hall… In the middle of the hall, was a wheel of sorts that only served to add to the area’s strangeness and mysteriousness…
After looking around, the astonished Ray couldn’t help but say, “Color me surprised! To think that such a large palace-like place would exist up here in the mountains!”
True enough, this place was much larger than the tomb they had seen in Ghost Country. With that in mind, it appeared that the vampires were extremely powerful…
Whatever the case was, the others then began curiously inspecting their surroundings… Gerald himself—as well as a few others—immediately went for the wheel in the middle of the room…
Looking at the wheel, Ray then asked, “Any idea what this wheel symbolizes, Mr. Crawford?”
Before Gerald could even reply, Old Flint explained, “That’s the vampires’ Wheel of the Sun and Moon! They use it to calculate time!”
“Calculate… time? Why would they require such a big wheel just to calculate time?” asked Ray.
“Oh, they didn’t use it to calculate regular time. Instead, the wheel calculates when they need to replenish their blood!” replied Old Flint, instantly causing a chill to run down Ray’s spine.
As it turned out, the vampires used this wheel to calculate when exactly they needed to suck fresh blood, and the thought of it alone was honestly spine tingling…
At that moment, one of Lech’s team members could be seen stretching out his hand to grab what seemed to be a pearl—that was embedded on one of the stone walls—as favonovel.com shouted, “Hey captain, there’s a pearl here! I’m sure it’ll sell for a lot!”
Upon realizing what was happening, Gerald instantly yelled, “Don’t pluck it off the wall!”
Unfortunately, Gerald was too late.
The team member had already taken it off the wall, and favonovel.com was now looking at Gerald in bewilderment, wondering why favonovel.com was getting so worked up about the pearl in his hand.
Before anyone could react any further, a thunderous sound could suddenly be heard!
Turning to face the source of the sound, everyone’s eyes widened in horror when they realized that a massive stone had fallen and completely blocked the palace’s entrance!
“Everyone, duck!” shouted Gerald as favonovel.com instantly pushed Old Flint and the rest of his party members to the ground.
The second his sentence ended, countless arrows began shooting out from the surrounding stone walls!
Sadly, some of Lech’s team members weren’t quick enough to react, which led to them getting pierced by volleys of arrows! Soon enough, those members flopped to the ground, dead and lying in their own pools of blood…
For those who managed to duck in time, none of them dared to even raise their heads, afraid that arrows would pierce right through their skulls…
Nobody could’ve anticipated there to be such a death machine in this place…
