432 Underneath (1/2)

As the monstrous building came into view, everyone had to blink twice to make sure they weren't seeing things. They felt like a mystical, ancient beast suddenly appeared before them and they were all dumbstruck. They all stared at the ancient structure in awe.

The Ziggurat was in the shape of pyramid but instead the sides being smooth from the bottom to the top, this was a layered, rectangular building, something akin to lego blocks where a large rectangular piece made up the base and then smaller rectangular pieces placed on top. The stop of the structure wasn't pointed like a pyramid, it had a small dome which sat on top of a small, square building.

On one face of the structure was the entrance with three stairways leading up to it, two stairways hugging the wall and one stairway in front of it.

Alex was standing on top of the structure and in the next moment, Abi saw him jump down to the ground. Once the elite vampires and witches felt that the small quake was over and that the threat of the avalanche was no more, they moved to get closer to Alex and the Ziggurat. Riev went out there first to make sure it was safe before Raven, still holding on to Abigail, and the others followed.

They stopped about fifty meters away from Alex. They could see that Alex's eyes were still emitting its golden shade so they didn't dare get too close to him. The mission was not over yet, it seemed.

The world around them had become quiet again. Nothing could be heard apart from their breathing.

Abigail stepped away from Raven the moment they landed and she drew closer to Alicia. She could tell that Alex was not back to normal yet so she, too, didn't approach him.

”Alicia, did you know that something like this was here?” she asked. She wondered if Alicia had seen this structure before in her crystal ball.

Alicia just shook her head. She couldn't recall seeing it. But then again, she wasn't the witch queen yet so she didn't have access to all the previous witch queens' memories.

The group fell quiet after that and all eyes fell back towards Alex again.

After staring at the structure for a while, Alex finally moved. He glanced at them and looked at Abigail, as if to make sure she was okay, before he began to approach the ancient structure. He walked by the structure's outer wall, his hand dragging on the wall. He looked like he knew exactly where he was going as he carefully walked around its perimeter.