Chapter 249 The Dungeon

Layla stared back and forth between the scroll and Leo with a confused expression on her face.

"So you're telling me that this stuff is English." She said, staring directly at Leo.

"Yeah," Leo said, nodding his head.

"Can you read it?" She asked.

"Yeah," Leo said, turning his gaze to Bryan. "The message is from Tania's brother."

"Tania?" Bryan.

"Yeah," Leo said.

"Tania? Who's Tania?" Layla asked.

"Do you mind reading out the contents of the message?" Bryan asked, ignoring Layla's question.

"Ok," Leo said as he picked up the scroll and brought it closer to his view.

"If you find this message please keep it safe, a few months ago my sister went missing, I was in night school then and when I returned I began looking for her.

"I searched everywhere for her and still I wasn't able to find her. A few days ago I found this portal linking to your world and I just have this feeling that she may be in your world but I cannot come there yet.

? "My sister's name is Tania Blackstone and if you have come across her before or know where she is please get this message to her and if you can, send a reply.

There was a moment of silence in the room before Layla decided to break it with the questions she really needed answers to as she was totally confused.

"So who's Tania and who's this man that just fluently read this weird type of English?" Layla asked after she had turned to Bryan.

"Do you know Tania's brother?" Bryan asked.

"Yeah, he was still in knight school when we accidentally transmigrated into this world," Leo said.

"So he found the portal that led you guys here," Bryan said.

"If he managed to get this message here then that is clearly the case," Leo said.

"Hello, guys I'm here, what are you guys even talking about?" Layla said.

"Layla, wait, I'll explain everything to you on our way out," Bryan said.

"Ok," Layla said, folding her hands.

"Thanks for helping me read this, Leo," Bryan said.

"It's not a problem but how are you going to send a message back to him?" Leo asked.

"I'll come up with something," Bryan said heading for the door.

Layla slowly followed him out and was resting on the staircase rails waiting for the answers to her questions.

"I'm waiting." She said,

"I'm not going to tell you anything if you're just going to sit there," Bryan said, already going down the stairs.

"Why do you have to make everything difficult?" Layla said with a sigh as she quickly followed him.

Bryan explained everything to her as they slowly went down the stairs and by the time they had gotten to the car he was already done with the explanation.

The reason why Layla knew nothing about this was that Bryan had been doing the investigation since the day his detectors had detected Tania and Leo entering their world.

That was the reason why he had placed cameras on all the areas where he had his detectors, Layla thought it was for better monitoring and good security but now she knew she was completely wrong.

"So that scroll was sent by Tania's brother from this other world," Layla said.

"Yeah and now we have to find a way to send him a reply," Bryan said, opening the car door.

"But he said to get the message to his sister first," Layla said.

"We will start looking for a way to get back to him now and go pay a visit to Tania tomorrow," Bryan said, hopping into his car. "Get in or I am going to drive off without you."

"Oh right," Layla said, opening the door and entering the car as Bryan started the engines and zoomed off.

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Jude had lost every will to sleep as he lay on his bed thinking about what his mother had told him before leaving his room.

She had told him that he had seen Tania in a green field with lots of pink roses and was running to meet her as she was also running to her.

They had gotten close to each other but as soon as Tania was about to hug her, a red portal opened beside her and scary red creatures with long sharp fingernails dragged her into the portal.

"She was screaming my name but I couldn't help her." Those were the last words Maya had said while narrating her dream and they kept playing over and over in Jude's mind, completely taking away any will to sleep from him.

He got up from his bed and walked through his window. He opened the window to see that the sun was beginning to rise.

'I have to get those crystals, I need to leave before that sun rises.' He thought.

He quickly grabbed his bag, slid into his light armor, and covered them up with his clothes then he lifted his bed to bring out his sword and its sheath.

Now he was ready, he left the house through the back door and made his way around the guards to prevent getting seen.

In order to get to the dungeon, he had to leave through the south of Asaka which wasn't exactly a safe exit.

That exit was full of hills and waterfalls and one wrong move would spell his demise.

Jude slowly made his way down the hills and with the help of the map he found the little forest he had to cross before he could get to the dungeon.

By the time he found the dungeon the rays of the sun had already brightened up the sky.

He hid in the forest watching the entrance of the dungeon waiting to see at least one guard.

After waiting for a long while without seeing any guard he slowly made his way to the dungeon which seemed to be attached to a mountain.

He walked to the side and slowly looked into the dungeon expecting to see someone but there was no one, the place was pin-drop silent.

'I don't understand.' He thought as he slowly walked past the empty cells.

"If these cells are empty then where are they keeping the criminals that are yet to be executed?"

He walked straight until he had come into an open large space and it didn't take him long to spot a purple glowing rectangular light in the dark area.

He slowly walked to the purple light to see that it was some kind of glowing wall cage and he could see three blue crystals floating in there through the tiny holes.

"Those have to be the stones." He said as he tried to open the small cage but his efforts were futile as the cage seemed to be stuck.

"I'll just destroy it." He said as he quickly unsheathed his sword and slashed it down on the cage.

The result wasn't a good one for him as he got blasted back by purple energy.

"Owwwww." He groaned as he tried to get up from the floor.

"Why do you attempt the impossible, young one?" He heard a deep but light voice behind him.

He turned to see a fully bearded man in a hood, holding a white glowing staff.

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