Chapter 107 - A Life of Falsehood (2/2)

And with that, their movement speed was boosted by a considerable amount, allowing them to reach the unnamed town within a few hours.

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With the sun at its peak, Aurus and Herellia landed on the ground around a half kilometers away from the wall of the town the inheritance was situated. Not wanting to attract the Animates' attention, they gradually rolled their way towards the gates, making sure that their movement seemed natural to the Animates. This ordeal was somewhat hard for them since it took them around 30 minutes to traverse such a distance.

Finally, the two were now at the gates of the town, only needing to head a few hundred meters along the perimeters of the wall before reaching the inheritance according to what Herellia told Aurus after talking about Horell's life.

Whoosh!

Before the both of them started rolling, Herellia abruptly transformed her body into a small pebble that seemed inconspicuous, slightly shocking Aurus for a bit. ”You have a morphing skill?”

”Yeah,” Herellia replied. ”Don't you have a morphing skill as well?”

As a reply, Aurus also morphed his body, compacting his size into that of a gray pebble that was around the same size as Herellia in her pebble form. Slightly chuckling, he replied, ”Does this answer your question?”

Looking at Aurus for a bit, Herellia then said, ”Let's hope that not many people are around that place. Let's go.”

Swoosh!

Not long after that, the two pebbles then started to roll towards a certain direction, with Herellia leading the front. Due to their small size, the speed at which they rolled was considerably faster when compared to their speed when rolling as a branch, since they are affect by lesser air resistance.

And so, around 15 minutes later, the two pebbles were then greeted by the entrance to an abandoned mineshaft… well what seemed to be an entrance to an abandoned mineshaft. Right now, only a small space was left as an entrance to the mineshaft, most of which have been covered by wooden planks that have already been covered with moss, or perhaps the stone that fell from the mineshaft's ceiling.

Thankfully, the two of them were small enough to fit through the small entrance, reverting back to their original forms once they were sure that they were finally inside the mineshaft.

They then started to hover through the mineshaft's pathways, before arriving at a dead end a few minutes later.

This dead end was unlike the other dead ends they saw along the way as the wall that served as the dead end was extremely smooth when compared to the rough walls of the other dead ends. Not only that, if only looked very closely, one would see a gray magic circle carved on this smooth wall.

”We're finally here,” Herellia could not help but sigh as she said, landing on the ground as she looked at the gray magic circle. Aurus landed as well, looking at the direction where Herellia was looking.

”So…how do we enter the inheritance?” Aurus could not help but ask. Although he knew a lot of places that held inheritances, he only remembered the methods of entering a scant few inheritances.

”You just have to reply to the words that we will hear not long after,” Herellia replied before asking Aurus to remain silent, to which Aurus became silent not long after, waiting for Herellia's words to come true.

And only a few minutes later did the two faintly hear a single word resound throughout the dead end they were in.

”Creeper?” This was the word they heard.

At that instant, as if it was an impulse brought by his memories, Aurus replied with, ”Aw man.”

Whoosh!

Not long after his reply, the gray magic circle started to glow a very faint light as the two of them were transported to another space, not leaving a single trace of them being in the mineshaft in the first place.