202 Nordic Centipedes (2/2)
The tigress asked with a chuckle when she noticed how they made the other contestants' lives harder.
Arrora chuckled with the tigress as Don started to check for loot.
The mansion looked mostly cleaned out, probably by the previous contestants who entered seventy-five years ago.
”I'll take the upstairs”
Arrora said as Don nodded.
Everywhere Don went, he could only see termites ridden books and barely readable scrolls, yet, he took them anyway. The tigress however seemed picky about her loot since she had only a limited amount of space in her space ring.
The tigress looked for his permission when she saw a red orchid in the room which seemed like a bedroom because she couldn't have reached this place first if not for Don and Knight so she didn't try to take the things without his permission.
”History books, you want these”
Don noticed a rack full of ancient history books and the tigress seemed to be the character who loves reading.
”Let me see”
The tigress stood on her two legs and started to rummage through the books and picked a couple of books from the rack.
”You can take the rest”
The tigress put the books in her space rings as Don waved his hand and cleaned out the rack.
He would give them to Reghys since the dragon loved to horde knowledge rather than gold.
At the moment, Arrora was opening and closing the shelves in the kitchen upstairs. She found many seeds and a lot of alchemy ingredients from the rooms upstairs.
After checking every nook and corner upstairs, She realized that whoever came to this place before them didn't think much about the future generation.
”Am I being a hypocrite? Yes I am”
After cleaning the place out she thought about it and giggled.
”Hey, check this out”
Suddenly Don heard the tigress calling him as he went to her and saw her scratching the floor beneath her.
”What?”
”There must be treasures under this”
”How'd you know?”
The excitement was flowing out of her eyes as she kept scratching and punching the ground.
”How did you think I was able to find rare herbs for these little bastards? This grey can sense treasures, awesome isn't it?”
She proudly said and surprised Don because a treasure sensor like her could be a valuable asset for him.
”But it's weird that I can only sense them now?”
Don couldn't see any locks or handles on the floor or anything special but the usual concrete floor like everywhere else.
However the moment Don placed his hand on the floor, his shield came out of his space ring and started to vibrate.
Suddenly golden symbols and runes appeared on the ground and the tigress felt the ground beneath her moving.
”What's happening here?”
Knight and Arrora came after they felt the slight shaking beneath their feet.
”I bet super cool treasure inside”
The tigress was bouncing with excitement as Arrora and Knight looked at the ground with a grin.
After a few minutes, the ground beneath them moved completely away and they saw steps leading to the underground.
”Careful, there might be traps around”
Knight said and retrieved another sack from his space ring.
”What now?”
The tigress said as Knight tossed the sack down.
”Gross”
Arrora stepped back when she saw hundreds of sewer rats crawling out of the sacks and running down on the steps.
”Do you know how many diseases they spread?”
Arrora asked Knight with a frown as Knight created a line of fire so the rats would only run into the underground.
To their shock and surprise, while they were running through the stairs, streams of flame appeared out of the steps and roasted them. The surviving rats activated another trap as spikes emerged from the ground and ripped the rats apart.
In a few moments, the traps killed all the rats that Knight sent.
Still, Knight took another sack of rats and tossed it into the underground again to check if there's anymore traps.
”Poor bastards”
The tigress felt a little sympathy towards the rats and expected another massacre but surprisingly, the second batch of rats did not activate any traps as they roamed around the underground and made themselves home.
Since Don knew where the traps were, he waved his hand and shut the holes where the flames appeared as well as melted the spikes with his hell flame.
”Take your steps carefully”
Knight warned them because the place might still have some untriggered traps as Don created a powerful energy barrier around them in case they triggered a trap.