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XII.



Freya moved cautiously through the darkness of the cave. It was damp, slippery and she constantly struggled with cobwebs. As if that weren't enough, she also had to reckon with some kind of sudden traps. But she didn't care about any of that, because inside she was still boiling over Williams' stupid action.

'Such a big ass! And then that dumb grin, because of - was a thing for the specialist - he could at least have warned me in advance! But no, leave me standing there like an idiot! Oooh, I could do it like that ...! But the absolute height is that I'm still worried, stupid cow, about this bastard! A low growl gave expression to her anger while the next cobweb had to believe in it. During this, William literally crept after Freya.Just not getting close to her was his top priority at the moment.

The light conditions got worse and worse the further the two got into the cave. Freya was trying to create a light magic when suddenly a loud "crack" tore the silence apart. Suddenly she turned around. William looked like someone had frozen him in the middle of a run. "What was that?" Freya whispered. But instead of receiving an answer, it was torn down by William. Just in time, as it turned out. Because already thousands of arrows shot out of the walls. After a few seconds her supply seemed to be exhausted and Freya wanted to sit up relieved when William pressed her firmly against the floor again. She gasped angrily. But before she could start unwinding the wild insults that she had prepared especially for him, one could hear another threatening noise. It almost sounded as if some old gears were being set in motion again after years of rest.But there was no time for long deliberations, because huge sickles were already swinging close above the ground.

"Roll over to the wall. They don't get that deep there." ordered William. Freya followed his instructions without hesitation.

It took minutes for the sickles to slow down to some extent and for them to be finally pulled back into the wall by a mechanism.

"Is there anything else coming?" Freya asked uncertainly. "I think that's it for now.", William answered a little hesitantly. Both rose cautiously. "All right with you? We'd better be careful where we step. Who knows what surprises are still waiting for us here." William nodded in agreement while Freya had already embarked on the exciting journey inside the cave. In the meantime she had even managed to shed some light on the darkness. In other words, she had set a pair of the arrows lying around on fire and was now using them in a similar way to matches, only with a larger flame and a significantly longer burn time.

Even more carefully than at the beginning, she felt her way further into the cave. Without noticing, however, that her companion had increasing difficulties following her.

Finally it seemed to get brighter at the end of the corridor.

"William! I think we did it right away .. Aaaaaah!" A moment of inattention, only a very small one and Freya fell into the depths of a pitfall. "Shit!" Came from William, who immediately ran closer to the pit. He leaned forward on his knees so that he could see something in the darkness. "Freya! Freya! Can you hear me? Say something! Please! Damn it, Freya, answer me!" Almost desperate, he hit the ground next to him with his fist. "Freya !!!" "Can't you shout less ?! You have no idea how it sounds down here!" Relieved William breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she was still complaining about him, she must be fine. “Where are you? What are you doing?” “Oh, I'm hanging around here in the air.10 cm above the set up spears. It's a nice pit, you know. So full of disgusting little critters and cobwebs, most of which I've swept away and now stuck to me all over the place. I'll come back up then. "

William stepped back a little while Freya, covered in cobwebs, floated out of the pit. "God, I was so frightened about the crash that I almost forgot that I can fly. You that was a hairpin. I almost got stuck on those things down there. - Shoot cobwebs, stick everywhere." Laughing inwardly , William could only shake his head at something like that while Freya removed the last cobwebs from her hair. "We sure won't lift it that far.", He said, "There seems to be a bigger room up there." "Yep, I actually wanted to tell you that before I rushed in there."

The two of them covered the last few meters without any other incident. One could have wondered about it now.But hey, who else is concerned with deadly traps when they seem so close to their goal.

It was less a room than a hall they entered. There were round holes in the sloping ceiling for light to shine through. To the left and right of them were pillars on which dusty reliefs could be seen. Freya and William took a closer look. It seemed like a story of a long forgotten war was being told. In the scene the symbols of the earth spirits, hell and heaven appeared again and again, as well as old characters that could hardly be deciphered.

"What does that mean, William?" "I have no idea. I've never seen anything like it." Freya carefully ran her fingers over the figures. "Could it symbolize the fight against chaos?" "I don't think so. Look, the last columns are empty, as if something is still missing.", William looked at the unprocessed last columns in astonishment."Why is someone portraying a story that he hasn't even finished?" Freya mused. "Maybe that guy was fed up or ran out of ideas," scoffed William. He didn't really care either. He was here to bring Inferna back and not to look at any pictures. Also, his back was slowly making itself felt again. With the excitement about Freya's crash and reaching the hall, he had almost forgotten that he had come close to the sickles from earlier in a life-threatening manner. Freya, however, did not seem to have noticed anything. “Can we finally go on now?” Freya would have liked to have looked at the pictures, but since William was already pulling them away, she finally gave in. "Take it easy. I'm coming on."

The portico became wider and wider until there were several rows of columns on the right and left. But these had completely different motives and also seemed to be much older.The back rows were barely touched by the light and sank into the darkness.

A few steps in front of Frea and William a roundabout could now be seen. Three steps led up to it and just above the middle was another hole in the ceiling.

"I think we're getting closer to it." With these words William sprinted onto the platform. "Look at that! Someone left a message here." With his head tilted, William began to turn around his own axis. It slowly made him dizzy. Who wrote his messages in a circle from the inside out. “Maybe it's a reference to the swords.” “That too.” “How? That too?” “Well,” began William, “the swords are mentioned, as well as an eerie, strong and dangerous being who does the job has to kill everyone who feeds on them. "" Aha! .... Is it a little more precise? "" No. But it says here that we should follow the pillars in the direction there, if we are tired of life, the most powerful being to challenge in these realms."With that, William pointed to a path in the dark that led away from the portico." And are we tired of life? "" Huh, just the fact that we've got this far is, according to the text here, the best proof of that. "Slowly, to get rid of the dizziness, William came down from the roundabout." Shall we? "He asked Freya, while he was already turning to go. With one," Let's do it. ", she started moving too.

Although the path was much better developed than the slippery cave, Freya would rather be there than here in the pitch dark. With extreme caution she felt her way along the wall, always in the direction of the monster. She didn't know exactly what that meant, but in fact Freya didn't really want to find out either.

That's why she had decided not to light a light here. Such a monster apparently lived in the deepest darkness and probably only the smallest ray of light would draw attention to their presence.

"Tell me, did it say anything about how far it is to the swords or the monster?" Freya whispered. "I guess we'll be there soon." answered William, who stayed close behind her. And in fact Freya ran a few steps further almost in front of a wall. "What's that shit about? Why is there suddenly a wall here? Just don't tell me that this is a dead end." "How should I know? There can't be a wall here. The roundabout clearly said that we should follow this path. ”In disbelief, William pushed past Freya and felt the obstacle. "Hard to believe. There really is a wall here" Freya almost broke the thread of patience. "What was that remark about? Didn't you believe me? Do you think I'm so incapable that I can't even see a stupid wall in the dark when I walk in front of one ?!" After William had let his hands slide over the stone obstacle a few more times, he took a few steps back and within a few seconds had a ball of fire in his hand.“What is that supposed to be now?” “I have definitely not read it wrong, and neither in the dark nor in the firelight does the wall give the impression that it belongs there and that's why it is now being removed.” “Are you crazy?” Freya just asked before the fireball from William's hand hit the wall right next to her. Freya looked incredulously at the resulting hole. "This is of course also a way of removing obstacles. Have you actually thought for a moment about the monster that is supposed to live here? This has definitely not escaped it." "Well, so much the better. Then we finally don't need to be here anymore Stumbling around without a light because