Kapitel 249: A boy, a forger, a king

In the center of the room stood a massive, ornate coffin, its surface etched with yet more indecipherable runes. A gnarled, skeletal tree loomed overhead, its twisted branches reaching towards a solitary shaft of moonlight filtering in from a hole in the cavern roof.

"What really is this place? Is this still a lab?" She thought out loud as she looked around her just to be sure she was alone. Although given the situation she was in, being alone wasn't particularly good either.

As Tessa drew nearer to the coffin, she could feel a strange, pulsing energy emanating from it, like a heartbeat of pure power. Another inscription adorned its surface, this one even more cryptic than the last:

"Vae ebrio, Nam in vino veritas. Vae mortuo, In sanguine vita."

"Woe to the drunk, for in wine lays truth. Woe to the dead, in blood lays life," Tessa's breath caught in her throat as the meaning became clear. More blood then?