Chương 17: Artifact
Two hours hidden above a wardrobe seem endless when you are convinced that they can discover you at any moment. The wound on the side has reopened. The effect of the 'glue' rune is over. With the two fixed guards in the room trying to create other runes becomes risky.
"If the effect of the first rune is over, probably also 'chameleon' is about to disappear. It will be fun to see the amazed face of the guards before dying. "
Simon looks around looking for inspiration. "Extreme evils, extreme remedies" a moment of concentration "Prrrrr…"
One of the guards "Smacky go out to do certain things." The other probing the air "Don't blame me for what you do!"
Simon incredulous takes advantage of the animated discussion to leave the room slowly.
Elza "Come, come here! There's no one out for the moment."
Simon sneaks out into the corridor "And now which way? Never seen so many rooms in a single house!"
The boy moves furtively through the corridor. Fatigue and wound are slowly numbing him. A sound of footsteps. The first door on the right is open.
The room looks like a kind of alchemical laboratory. Ampoules, strange tools and jars full of strange things. It seems that those working in this room are working on something. A notebook full of notes.
"Third month of analysis. Even today I could not find anything new. Since the count has bought this artifact at an auction, nobody knows how to make it work. My lord said the auctioneer called this strange bag 'an endless well'. But despite the tests I have done nothing has given results. It looks and is simply a sturdy belt bag. The material is unknown to me and is very resistant, no proof has affected it. Tomorrow I will consult the court magician."
Elza says nonchalantly, "I understand it's been a long time, but no one remembers the Demons anymore? That's one of their magic bags."
"Really? Do you know how it works?"
"Sure! It's enough that a demon uses it to be able to insert and remove a lot of things."
"You could just say no ..."
Simon collects the bag and tying it to his belt begins to store simple objects. Nothing special. The space that is seen is what is there.
On the back a series of symbols. It looks like a language.
"Elza, I thought, since I'll have to fight the demons, would not it be necessary for me to have the skill to understand and read their language?"
"I think so, very good idea. Now you just have to find someone who teaches you."
"Sometimes I don't understand if you're really like that or if you like to torture people."
But the boy does not lose heart. The room seems safe for the moment. Thanks to the pieces of cloth and alcohol, he cleans the wound and wraps it. The pain is still exaggerated, but at least now it can wait a few more hours before fainting.
"There are a lot of expensive and useful things in the room but I would not be able to get them. If I can only get out of here it's already a good achievement."
Quick steps out of the door. There seems to be agitation. Simon hides under a work table and waits for the noise to get far before leaving.
Nothing
"It would have been too easy. Well then let's say I'm a demon, I have a lot of stuff and I want to put it away. I take it and without looking at it in my bag." A jar sticks out halfway through the artifact. "And nothing yet."
After an hour, Simon looks disconsolately at the bag. "Well, if I sell it, maybe I'll still earn something." Then the eye fixes three symbols.
"Elza looks here, you know that these three symbols do not seem to me at all letters. Two look like arrows, one pointing up and the other down, this one looks like a magnifying glass. Reason, if the bag was made by the demons a long time ago I'm not surprised is ruined. Our enemy has not been seen for hundreds of years. But if I look at it, it is not consumed by time. The only letters consumed are these three. As if someone has used them more often than others."
Simon takes a jar and as he approaches the bag he brushes the arrow upward with his finger. Nothing.
"Mmm I thought I had caught it and instead"
Simon takes the jar and near the bag touches the arrow down. Unbelievable. An incredible magic. The jar begins to pulverize and enter the bag disappearing from the hand. "Yup!!!!!"
"I understand now. Watch now how I get it out! "Simon presses the up arrow. Nothing. Hands in the hair and exasperated "Cursed demons!"
A symbol remains. You might as well try. With a light gesture the symbol formed by a circle and a small rod at the base is touched.
"I can't believe it! We will never be able to defeat a race capable of creating such a portentous thing!"
In front of Simon, a screen similar to that of magic status appeared on the side of the bag. On the screen appear a series of indecipherable symbols but fortunately also the image of the jar is present. The boy presses the image of the jar with his finger and touches the upward arrow.
Bum
"In my hand! The jar is whole in my hand. It's not sand! "
Excited Simon begins to put anything found in the room in the bag. The screen is updated every time with new images.
"Probably if I knew the language I could do other fantastic things but for the moment I'll settle for what I could find out."
Other tests during the next hour. "Can I get a ladder in? Yup! A table? Yup! Too good to be true. And also terrifying. The demons, hundreds of years ago, were able to carry anything they wanted with a bag like that. Who knows what they can do now. I have chills down my spine. We have to prepare ourselves. It is not enough to know how to fight, we must create new weapons to face them and defend ourselves."
Elza "Good, now that you've emptied the room, what will you do if some guard arrives?"
"Shit! You are right. I have to escape as soon as possible. I was so excited to forget that I'm not in the best possible situation."
Simon opens the window and checks out. The height is the same as the other room but here the walls are more distant and it would be difficult to jump down. "I could camouflage myself as I get off the wall as I went up last night"
The goddess "With that wound, do you really think you can hold on to a wall and not fall?"
"I hate you when you shove reality in this way. You destroy the little trust I have in me."
Then an idea. "If I'm here sooner or later they'll catch me. If I try to get out, I'll be sure. So I'll stay here but in plain sight. I have to take the place of a guard!"
Elza goes out into the corridor to check. Then come back "The guards seem to be walking in pairs along the corridors, the only guard alone is stationed in front of a corridor room above this."
Simon, thanks to the indications of the goddess of fate, goes out into the corridor and moving furtively manages to get upstairs without being caught by the guards. The objective guard is sitting in front of a door. "Who knows what he's protecting?"
Simon is cloaked in the rune of the 'chameleon' and that of 'silence'. Then approaching slowly, he breaks the neck of the guard and then turn around and throw up on the ground. "Shit! Shit! I had never killed someone in cold blood. During a fight with adrenaline is not the same. Now I have to clean up. Simon puts everything back in order quickly and in a nearby room he exchanges clothes with the guard. Then he sits in front of the door.
An hour and two steps of the guards "Fantastic! Nobody noticed anything. Today in bad luck I have unexpected peaks of fortune. Elza? You know what's in here?"
"Of course, give me a beautiful prayer as it should be and I'll tell you."
"Or I could go in and see."
"Sure, go ahead. Then you do not complain to me, I recommend."
"You are treacherous. Now I'm afraid to enter."
"Pray to me then! Beg me!"
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George is exasperated "Selin calm down, it is useless to run back and forth. Sit down and wait. You will see that he will come."
Selin "How can you say that? We don't know what happened. He's in there alone!"
Desmond very calm "He is still alive."
Selin "How can you say it with certainty?"
"Obvious. If he was not, my brain would be as slow as when I was a child."
George perplexed question "But you healed years ago! Why should you return as before if he dies?"
"Did you really never notice? Selin is new to the group but we have known him for years. You are perhaps convinced that Simon is only able to bring out the best in people. If this were the case you think miners are going to bring down a city like Vanein!"
The boys sit at the table listening carefully to Desmond's explanation.
"Since I decided to follow Simon, my brain is more awake and my strength is greater. All this in a few years. Since then Selin and Igor have joined us it is as if I had made a leap in quality."
John "Actually it's true. In a single month we passed by miners who pretended to be warriors to true adventurers. "
Selin "What is Simon's ability?"
Desmond "Emperor."
Selin "Do you want to tell me that he has such an exceptional ability to allow him to learn our skills, like the runes of Igor and in addition to give strength to all of us?"
"Obvious. That's why I will follow him to the end of the world."
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