Chapter 24: Jonas’ Discovery
Jonas was excited. He knew there was something behind this wall, but couldn't figure out where the opening was. It was a painstaking process that took at least an hour or two, he couldn't be sure in this place. Especially since there weren't any timepieces with which to keep track of time and Jonas himself never really had that much of an internal clock to help him keep track of how long things took.
However, he was now able to identify where the opening was, he couldn't hold his excitement in. It didn't take him long after that to figure out which block was the key to opening it. Then as the door opened outward, Jonas quickly pulled it fully open. He didn't know what to expect inside, but if nothing else, it was something that he'd found here that would make things at least a little different. If nothing else, it would make him feel better that he found something that he wasn't supposed to have found.
Inside the secret door, there was a small room that merely had a few objects inside. There was a few pieces of clothing, a few trinkets of jewelry, and a few bottles filled with some blue or green liquid that looked more like ooze than an actual liquid.
What he was able to determine easily about the items is that they were all magical in some form or other, with the clothing, there was a gold dress with a low-cut bodice and brown sleeveless shirt. The gold dress was fully enchanted, though he couldn't say how or in what way, but somehow he knew that it would be worth 12k gold. The brown shirt was worth 500 gold and was also enchanted.
With the jewelry, there was a gold necklace that he could say was worth 100 gold, a pair of platinum bracelets that would go for 1k gold together, a single silver earring with a red stone that looked like a drop of blood that was worth 7k gold, and finally a mythril circlet that was worth 400 gold, even though it looked like it was rather beat up and heavily dented. Although, he was surprised to know that it was made out of mythril, since he'd only ever heard of it in fantasy books and movies
Then even though Jonas didn't know what was in the bottles, he could tell that they were pretty much worth 100 gold to 500 gold each. Aside from the last bottle that had a green-brown kind of ooze in it. He couldn't say what that was worth. Though, he assumed that everything in there was magical in some way, even if he couldn't say how.
"What's in here?" Elmo asked, startling Jonas.
He'd been so focused on finding the room as well as the contents of the secret room that he'd forgotten about the rest of his team.
"Not sure," he replied. "But I think we have some valuable treasure in here."
"Treasure?" Elin asked, sounding rather confused. "What good would gold coins do us?"
Jonas shook his head. "Treasure can come in many forms. In this case, we have magical items, even though I have no idea in what way they're magical," Jonas replied as Elmo and Elin entered the secret room.