章 36: Searching for the Hidden Room
The inside of the building was vastly different compared to the outside, the dilapidated small buildings and houses outside were a sharp contrast to the luxurious inside of the main building. Big chandeliers hung from the 3.5m tall ceiling, the entrance hall was sparkly clean, the floor was made out of a material similar to marble and the walls even had crude paint on them. Tables and chairs could be seen inside and there was even a rug on the floor.
"Guys, did we make a mistake and enter the wrong building or something?" Shadow said while looking around, the richness of the hall was definitely out of all their expectations.
Ding!
{ The players have entered the mansion of the goblin chieftain, please give it your best to defeat the boss and find out the reason behind his greed for mana crystals.}
{Warning, the players have entered a special area inside the dungeon, retreat is impossible.}
Bam!
The door behind them was suddenly slammed shut, spurring a strong wind to blow toward everyone.
"The door closed, hmph, like that can stop us if we wanted to leave." Tank sneered as he went towards the door and lifted his mace high up in the air.
"Tank, wait!" Reign's shout came a bit late as Tank had already swung his mace down, giving it his all to break the door in pieces.
Clang!
The mace hit a purple light that covered the door and bounced back with even greater force.
"Shit!" Tank took two steps back to stabilize himself. Turning around he gave everyone a look of apology as he rubbed his right shoulder with his left hand. "Seems like we really can't leave this place huh?"
"No shit Sherlock!" Shadow jumped from behind and slapped the back of his head in anger.
"Ouch, why'd you do that for?!" Tank rubbed the back of his head while giving a sad look to Shadow.
"Because you don't think, what if there was an explosion instead of the rebound effect, all of us could have gotten injured before even getting to the damn boss!" Shadow growled while yelling at him.
"Alright Shadow that's enough, Tank please don't do something like that again alright?" Reign calmed Shadow down and told Tank who nodded obediently.
"Alright then, let's search for that basement then, if it really does exist." Reign held his sword while telling everyone.
Slowly moving deeper inside, everyone carefully observed their surroundings, the ambushes from before had put them on high alert. Beast was already crouching on the ground, listening for any breathing or movement nearby.
Getting up he shook his head as he failed to hear anything. The group relaxed a bit but still kept their vigilance up in case of any problems.
The hall was quite big and looked somewhat similar to medieval ones. There were three doors that they could see, one on the right, one on the left, and one straight ahead. After several minutes of looking around and searching every nook and cranny Wolf spoke up
"This place seems to be empty, I highly suspect there would be anything hidden here so let's just pick a door and continue the search."
"That's probably the best thing to do right now." Reign looked at Wolf and nodded his head in agreement.
"So which door should we choose?" Beast asked them.
"Well we'll probably end up searching everything, just in case we don't miss something so let's just go for the left one, it's the one that's closest to us anyway." Reign said and moved towards it.
"Wait, let me open it, if there's a trap or something on the other end I can block it with this bad boy here." Tank quickly moved ahead of Reign and pointed to his shield with a proud grin on his face.
"Alright, lead the way then." Reign said while helplessly sighing at him.
Tank nodded and moves to the door, planting his huge shield in front of him he gave the door a small push as there was no handle on it.
Creeeaak.
The door creaked loudly as it opened, Tank had already crouched behind his shield and prepared himself for an attack but nothing happened.
"Huh, seems like there are no traps there." Shadow nonchalantly said and peeked from the sides of the door.
The room looked like a lounge of some kind. Big wooden benches could be seen inside, circling multiple tables.
Entering the room everyone went into full alert and carefully looked around it. There was nothing they could see, to be honest, the room was quite empty except for the benches and tables.
Creeeaak
Another door opened up as Tank again pushed it, and the same thing happened again, there were no traps or enemies waiting for them in the room on the right side either. Wooden poles were the only thing inside this one, looking at the cuts and cracks on them it seems like this room was used for training. Everyone searched it like the previous two, but again, they found nothing at all.
"Alright, so it has to be in the last room, let's go guys, hurry up," Shadow said with some excitement in his voice, happily hopping towards the last door.
"Shadow wait!" Tank ran up to him and grabbed his shoulder. Seeing the serious look on Tank's face, Shadow gave an apologetic look and moved to the side. "Sorry big guy, I guess I just got a tad bit too excited."
Tank nodded and moves to the last door, putting his shield up he pushed the door and crouched behind the shield.
"Well no surprise there, it's empty aga-" Shadow starts talking but gets interrupted by a loud bang coming from Tank's shield. Moving three steps backward, Tank managed to regain balance and everyone looked at the object that moved him, it was a ball, a big stone ball that was launched from inside the room.
"You were saying?" Wolf gave Shadow a cold look and asked in annoyance.
"Sorry, sorry." Shadow started bowing toward everyone with his hands clasped together in front of him.
"Tank, how are you?" Beast went to Tank and asked him with concern.
"Don't worry I'm alright, it was just the impact that was stronger than I expected." Tank gave a big smile to him and reassured Beast.
"Alright everyone, let's move in slowly and carefully alright, get your shields out, we may need them." Reign said while taking out a red shield from the inventory. Everyone nodded and did the same.
Moving inside the room everyone could hear loud clicking noises, before they knew it, 5 arrows were shot at them.
Thud Thud Clang
Everyone managed to successfully block the arrows launched at them while Wolf simply hit the one headed toward him with his huge sword.
"Alright, this feels more like the dungeon now, let's keep together while we look around this room." Reign turned his head around and ordered.
The room was even emptier than the third one, there was nothing inside of it, just a simple wooden staircase and something that looked like a canon, inspecting it everyone understood that this was what launched the stone at Tank.
The staircase was at the end of the room, the stone wall of the building being on one side of it while a wooden wall was put on the other side, maybe for stability or maybe for the goblins aesthetic purposes. Everyone moved while inspecting the room for any hidden areas or clues. After a good 20 minutes, they were dejected to find nothing, there were no more traps after the ones at the beginning and there was nothing leading them to the hidden room.
"Damn it, that's impossible, it has to be here somewhere!" Shadow shouted in anger and kicked the wall.
"Calm down you moron, maybe we were wrong and they simply put the crystals upstairs, the goblins are usually a species that's not quite smart you know, well at least not before they evolve." Wolf glanced at Greenie as he said the last part of the sentence.
"You're right, maybe it's up or maybe there never was something like a hidden room to begin with, it's just me and my brain trying to hype me up for nothing. " Shadow bends his head down and says in a sad voice, looking like a kid that didn't get a present.
"Let's move up then, we lost a lot of time here." Reign started walking up the stairs while telling them. Everyone followed him and saw that there was no door at the end of the staircase, just an open entrance.
They slowly moved up before they heard a shout from behind them.
"Wait, that wooden plank there seems a bit off," Shadow yelled while pointing at the wooden wall, everyone looked down and got surprised as one plank really did look out of place when being viewed from a height.
Shadow goes down and stands in front of it, putting his hand on the plank he pushes a bit and smiles as he can feel almost no resistance. "This should be it right?" He smiles and looks at everyone else, they nod in agreement and he pushes the plank inside, it falls down and following it multiple more do the same, leaving an opening that was enough for one person to pass through.
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