The door was well hidden, its looked like it was the very corner of the room, and took 2 minutes to find. A few more demons had appeared but had been dispatched quickly and efficiently by Twilight and Asidus, while Valion and Kyran had searched for the door.

‘We move in deeper’ Valion said, at last finding the door. They walked through the door, and down a sloping path, the door closing behind them. They walked in silence for a few minutes, down the gradually sloping hallway. After a while the group came to another hall, with the door standing directly in front of them. But this one was locked securely, with an intricate lock, and the only way to open it was to solve the riddle that was written on the doors.

‘They only way forward are up and down for those who seek the holy ore or Bogannais’s crown’ Valion read aloud.

’Scanning…. answer is one way leads to the ore, the other the throne room of Bogannais, but the ceiling is composed of solid rock, which is 1 meter thick, and the floor is the same’

‘Hold on, I think I know what it means’ Kyran said, running headfirst into one of the doors and jumping at it. If the door had been real he would have broke his neck, but amazingly he passed through the doors as if they were just an illusion.

‘That’s using your head’ Valion muttered, watching as Kyran jumped back through headfirst.

‘That’s the answer, for one we jump through head first and the other we jump through feet first.’ Kyran said.

‘But which ones which?’ Asidus said.

‘Don’t know, just…guess’ Twilight said.

‘What did the one you jumped through look like’ Valion asked Kyran.

‘It was another hall that was sloping down’

‘That’s probably the one’ Twilight said.

‘Well, everyone lets go and try to find that ore’ Kyran said, once again jumping through the door headfirst.

By the time the shadow had managed to get to the second doors, he just saw Valion about to jump headfirst through the doors. But as he did, Valion looked straight at it before he disappeared through the door, giving the shadow an agonizing pain in his brain for the few moments they had eye contact.

‘He will die by my hands’ the shadow muttered to himself, rubbing his head with his hand.

‘That is, if Bogannais doesn’t kill them all first.’

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By Lady Knives

Thorns and stings, and those such things,
just make stronger, our angel wings.

[The Angel][The Demon]