30 Back to the for (1/2)

The next day, after I had gotten up, the order was given for us to head to the fort. It didn't take long to break the camp, as there were no fires that would need to be put out or tents taken down. I much like that day before I was with Erebus.

Moving to the fort though was not as simple as how we had been moving the previous days. We had to avoid all tracks and roads, incase of any demons or cultists moving along them. This meant a lot of the time, branches and undergrowth had to be cut away before we could move on.

Around the middle of the afternoon, we arrived at the same spot, where I watched the demon horde attack the fort previously. This time though there was no demon horde surrounding the fort. In fact it looked like it was empty. This surprised me as I thought the demons would have occupied it, if not them, the cultists would have had enough intelligence to see the advantage of occupying it, but they hadn't or at least it seems like they hadn't.

”Kid, you will need to keep up your guard from now on. We don't know what will be in the fort.”

Hearing the words of Erebus, I took my sword out of my sheath and made sure I could easily get my dagger, incase of me having my sword knocked out of my hand in a battle.

As we got closer to the black walls of the fort, I noticed that there was no flag or banners, showing who owned the fort. In fact, it looked like it had more been abandoned by its owner's, than been attacked and lost to demons.

As we approached the main gate, we began to vear to the left.

'Huh, I thought we would be going through the main gate, unless the intend to go to the western, side gate, but that is smaller and there is a higher chance of us getting trapped if we were attacked by enemy forces.'

Then Dubh, who was at the front of the line stopped walking forwards. This caused everyone else to stop as well. Looking around I could see that it was just me, who was confused.

'What if there is a kind of secret passage around here, that would explain more why we didn't go through the main gate. Though if anyone inside has found it, we would be walking straight into an ambush.'

As if he could read my mind, Dubh turned around , looking at me briefly first, before looking at the others around me. ”Those of you who do not know, there is a secret passage here. It will lead us straight into the keep itself. From there we will head to the armoury at resupply with anything we need.”

Then he touched the wall, in an odd pattern while muttering what I assumed was a spell. Once he was done, the outline of a door slowly became visible, in the solid black rock that made the wall up. It didn't take long for it to become a real door.

'The magic that would be needed to make something like this must be insane. To be able to camouflage a doorway, so well that no one apart from those who know about its existence, could find it. I wonder if this magic exists elsewhere.'