Chapter 78: Mask of Deceit(3)
The path became dark and narrow again, with no torches lighting up to pave the road before me. The blue glow of the lantern guided me through the shadows.\
[This passage is longer than before.] Dante remarked.
"Well, it is. The passages become longer after each puzzle." I said, dragging my palm on the hard surface of the wall, trying to find the other switch. "But we are close. The second room should be somewhere around here."
Click.
The sound of the switch echoed in the pathway. The walls rumbled before slowly descending to the ground with a noise as if stone ground on stone.
The entrance invited me to a new room, but this time the torches were already on burning with a fire brighter than the ones before. Tattered black banners hung from the wall with two curved blades that looked like Shamshirs crossed together—was woven into them.
I could tell by looking at them—they were old. Likely, this was here even before the Capital of Kaiserhelm was created. The Empire came into existence five hundred years after the Great Sovereigns' victory.
The Germainia Empire was established by the descendants of a Sovereign who fought alongside Aurelian. The second human Sovereign—The Sovereign of Steel, Germain Kaiserfalken.
His name was used later as the Empire's name—the Germainia Empire.
Well, enough of history. It is time for the second puzzle.
As my footsteps echoed inside the room, my eyes locked onto the two figures that stood ten metres apart from each other. Both of them wore a steel-plated armour with their faces—if they existed—covered by the helm. Both were standing in front of two wooden doors carved with intricate patterns.