Ultimus Thesaurus: The last Treasure (Era of Change Book 1) by Maximilian Warden
Authors: Maximilian Warden
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Excitement!” he whispered and for the first time, he tried to keep his volume down, which probably meant that he slowly realized what happened.
He began to treat the palimpsest with the tincture and after a short period of time more lines became visible. Lucia took the roll and looked over the text until she spontaneously stopped and said: “Where is the apple?”
“I ate it when you were searching for the missing reagents. I cannot recommend it, as it had a very bitter after-taste,” answered Magnus and scraped rests of it from his teeth.
Lucia began to read the text out loud to reveal the secret of the stone figure.
Lucia, if you're reading this, it may already be too late. Prince Marko is planning an attack on the kingdoms of this world. His goal is the first book of which you are holding a copy in your hands. Certainly Magnus Doyle helped you to extract a tincture from the oak apple which allowed you to read this message. The enclosed sound crystal is used to activate the stone figure. Play the song and it will guide you.
“The song? He has written it as if we should know what he is talking about. Or at least you,” I said and examined the palimpsest for further information; while Magnus was busy playing with the remains of the crystal he created.
Lucia took the sound crystal in her hand and immediately ran off and went to a room with a piano.
“I cannot play. Why would my father think that I can play this song?” she said with a sigh and sat down next to me.
When I was a little boy I had often played on the piano of my father. He hoped that it could make me a better person, but it would quickly get boring for me.
“What song did he mean? Maybe I can play it.”
She looked at me and said: “In the distance you are always with me. My mother has always sung it, when I was little. I do not really remember it, but my father told me about it in his letters.”
I knew the song, but the old piano was too unturned for the crystal to detect it. Only when the old man entered the room and started playing it back to me on a flute the crystal began to vibrate and to shine in a bright red.
Lucia immediately took the crystal and put it inside the figure which now began to emit a bright light. At first we didn’t notice it, but at the ceiling of the room there were now five numbers written in light: 8, 32, 11, 23, and 8.
“Megura. Cell 4747. Uses the numbers,” it echoed through the room and the statue crumbled to dust.
None of us knew exactly what was happening, but now we knew our first objective - the largest prison of our country: Megura.
Chapter 9: Into the Lion’s Den
The Fortress of Shadows, Megura, was the largest prison of Jimosien. Since the unification of the land there was much violence and attacks, both by the anarchists from the north, as well as by the barbarians coming through from the slopes of Jik'Zur, the Gate of Hell. No one had ever managed to escape, but it wasn’t surprising given that most of the prisoners were already executed after a few weeks without any further trial. Only those that remained useful to the king remained alive. He was a cold-hearted man who wanted nothing more than glory and power. His influence however dropped by the days and only a few kingdoms wanted an alliance with him. Now that the era of change began, rumours spread that the royal guard conspired against him to remove him from the throne. But Megura was not only a prison, at the same time it was also the seat of the king himself. Within this place, where his prisoners worked as slaves, he had now entrenched himself and waited in vain for help from the outside. We had no idea how to get in, but at this present time no one seemed to.
Magnus took quite a while to mix and take his 'medicine', as he called it, and so we had nothing left to do, as we waited for Isaac to wake up again. Since it would take several days to reach the main city, it was not surprising that Lucia and I already thought about how we
He began to treat the palimpsest with the tincture and after a short period of time more lines became visible. Lucia took the roll and looked over the text until she spontaneously stopped and said: “Where is the apple?”
“I ate it when you were searching for the missing reagents. I cannot recommend it, as it had a very bitter after-taste,” answered Magnus and scraped rests of it from his teeth.
Lucia began to read the text out loud to reveal the secret of the stone figure.
Lucia, if you're reading this, it may already be too late. Prince Marko is planning an attack on the kingdoms of this world. His goal is the first book of which you are holding a copy in your hands. Certainly Magnus Doyle helped you to extract a tincture from the oak apple which allowed you to read this message. The enclosed sound crystal is used to activate the stone figure. Play the song and it will guide you.
“The song? He has written it as if we should know what he is talking about. Or at least you,” I said and examined the palimpsest for further information; while Magnus was busy playing with the remains of the crystal he created.
Lucia took the sound crystal in her hand and immediately ran off and went to a room with a piano.
“I cannot play. Why would my father think that I can play this song?” she said with a sigh and sat down next to me.
When I was a little boy I had often played on the piano of my father. He hoped that it could make me a better person, but it would quickly get boring for me.
“What song did he mean? Maybe I can play it.”
She looked at me and said: “In the distance you are always with me. My mother has always sung it, when I was little. I do not really remember it, but my father told me about it in his letters.”
I knew the song, but the old piano was too unturned for the crystal to detect it. Only when the old man entered the room and started playing it back to me on a flute the crystal began to vibrate and to shine in a bright red.
Lucia immediately took the crystal and put it inside the figure which now began to emit a bright light. At first we didn’t notice it, but at the ceiling of the room there were now five numbers written in light: 8, 32, 11, 23, and 8.
“Megura. Cell 4747. Uses the numbers,” it echoed through the room and the statue crumbled to dust.
None of us knew exactly what was happening, but now we knew our first objective - the largest prison of our country: Megura.
Chapter 9: Into the Lion’s Den
The Fortress of Shadows, Megura, was the largest prison of Jimosien. Since the unification of the land there was much violence and attacks, both by the anarchists from the north, as well as by the barbarians coming through from the slopes of Jik'Zur, the Gate of Hell. No one had ever managed to escape, but it wasn’t surprising given that most of the prisoners were already executed after a few weeks without any further trial. Only those that remained useful to the king remained alive. He was a cold-hearted man who wanted nothing more than glory and power. His influence however dropped by the days and only a few kingdoms wanted an alliance with him. Now that the era of change began, rumours spread that the royal guard conspired against him to remove him from the throne. But Megura was not only a prison, at the same time it was also the seat of the king himself. Within this place, where his prisoners worked as slaves, he had now entrenched himself and waited in vain for help from the outside. We had no idea how to get in, but at this present time no one seemed to.
Magnus took quite a while to mix and take his 'medicine', as he called it, and so we had nothing left to do, as we waited for Isaac to wake up again. Since it would take several days to reach the main city, it was not surprising that Lucia and I already thought about how we
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