Unknown Knight

After checking all the information and deducing the general situation, the two were very excited. After dinner, they did not go to sleep and went to the secret room to search again.

Also coming at the same time were Tsuna and Sophia, the two girls who had received the letter during dinner. Now, the entire secret room was equipped with two fire racks for lighting, with the wood on them burning brightly, and more than a dozen lit candlesticks. Together with the candlesticks held by the four people, the entire space of seventy or eighty square meters was brightly lit.

Yamanti also carefully found a small wooden hammer for each person to use for paving the floor. For a while, the whole secret room was filled with the sound of "dong dong". However, the four of them worked for more than an hour and knocked almost everywhere, but they did not find any hollow drum sounds or traces of mechanisms.

However, Aix made a different discovery. He carefully observed the pentagram pattern emitted by the beads held in the hands of the Dark God on the relief and the corresponding pentagram pattern on the round table, and found that the directions of the two pentagrams were exactly opposite. Could there be something strange?

So he lowered his head to look under the table, and sure enough, there was a tiny gap where the stone supporting the table top touched the ground.

Aix leaned over the round table and tried to rotate the table top, which was about ten centimeters thick. He heard the sound of the iron chain moving under the table. He was delighted and knew there was a way. He shouted loudly:

"Found it, everyone come and help!"

Upon hearing the news, everyone rushed over and turned the table together. After two turns, the relief opposite began to be pulled up. After everyone rotated it three more times, the relief was more than two meters off the ground, and then there was a "click" sound and it was fixed in place.

The four people walked closer and found that there was indeed a passage a little over one meter wide behind the relief.

Moreover, the stone slab used to make the relief is 20 centimeters thick, and the entire stone slab weighs no less than two or three thousand pounds, or even more. There are tight-fitting grooves on the ground and on both sides, so it is no wonder that even after repeated knocks, no hollow drum sound can be heard.

Considering the thickness of the stone slab, Aix felt that the person who designed the stone door must also be a master in making mechanisms, and the iron chain inside must be equipped with several sets of dynamic and fixed pulleys. Otherwise, with the strength of just four people, even with the supernatural power of Sophia, it would be difficult to rotate such a heavy stone door.

Tsuna was excited and was about to go in to find out what was going on, but was stopped by X. The entrance alone had required so much fuss, who could guarantee that there weren't any deadly traps in the passage?

The four of them found two spears and an iron-coated shield that the territory had recently researched and produced. Aix asked Sophia to lead the way with the 60-centimeter-wide iron-coated shield, while he and Tsuna held their spears and kept hitting the ground and wall in front of them.

They moved forward little by little like this, and it took them more than an hour to walk through this passage of more than 100 meters. The three of them were so tired that their heads and faces were covered with sweat.

After exiting the passage, the inside suddenly opened up into a natural cave, about the size of a basketball court. It wasn't pitch black inside, and the moonlight shone in at night.

It turned out that this place was deep in the hills behind the fortress. There was a vertical cliff about fifty or sixty meters high. There were several holes of different sizes on the cliff, and the moonlight shone in through these holes.

There is light here at night. Aix estimates that the visibility here during the day should be bright enough without the need for lighting. One cannot help but admire the ingenuity of the craftsmen who designed this place.

And there was a steaming pool at the innermost part, which was more than 20 square meters. Aix put his hand in to try and found that it was about the same temperature as the hot spring outside the fortress. He thought it should be a hot spring belonging to the same earth vein.

Not only that, there are also steps, stone beds, stone chairs, stone benches, and stone tables carved according to the terrain. These utensils are covered with furs and tablecloths, but they have decayed beyond recognition and their original appearance can no longer be seen.

In front of the stone wall in the corner, there are several wooden bookshelves filled with various books, and two mahogany wardrobes.

The books are still readable, as they are all made of parchment that has been preserved for corrosion, but the handwriting has become unclear, and the pages may even break if you flip through the pages too hard.

Aix told Amanti to go back and look through it, and if there was anything valuable, ask someone to copy it down, as it might be useful in the future.

The mahogany wardrobe is filled with all kinds of expensive clothes made of silk, velvet and fur.

However, those valuable clothes were scattered and shattered when the two girls of Gangde shook them casually. Except for a few valuable furs, they could not even maintain their appearance. Even those furs were shedding hair or cracking, and were useless.

However, it was not a complete failure. Gangde actually found a treasure box in the closet. When he opened it, he saw that it was filled with all kinds of precious jewellery. The two women were so happy that they screamed in surprise.

Seeing how useless they were, Aix curled his lips. Women are always so superficial.

However, the two girls were not happy for long, because they soon discovered that the rings in the treasure box were obviously of the wrong size. They were all men's items. One of the emblem rings had a pentagram emblem on it.

There is also another necklace inside the necklace, which is obviously a ceremonial necklace. On the ten-centimeter-wide gold pendant is engraved an inverted pentagram pattern, and on the five corners are inlaid five pigeon egg-sized gems, which are very pure red, yellow, green, blue and black gems. The whole thing looks extremely precious and grand.

"This should be the relic of the missing pope. It is said that one of the relics passed down by the pope is this five-color star necklace."

Amanti looked at the necklace tag carefully and said.

But the inheritance token and the seal ring are both here, so where did the Pope go?

Several people searched the cave again, but did not find any relevant clues. Apart from a few pottery jars filled with rotten food in the corner, a few rusty and unusable weapons, and a black dagger made of unknown material, they found nothing else.

Looking at the entire cave, it appears to be simple and elegant, with stone steps and terraces arranged in an orderly manner, and the hot spring pool is filled with mist, as if it has a fairy-like aura. Moreover, this hot spring is like a fresh air system, providing a constant temperature and comfortable effect for the entire cave environment, making this place simply a Western fantasy version of a paradise, which makes Aix marvel at it.

It's just that the disappearance of Prius, the Pope of the Dark Order of Medius, brought an indescribable weirdness to the cave. People felt as if there was an indescribable force field in the cave, and they dared not stay here alone for a long time.