The Alpha's Regret Return Of The Betrayed Luna (Addison) novel Chapter 245

Chapter 245: Chapter 245 Runes

"If this place really was built as a prison, then the one who erected this barrier to trap the dark fairies inside surely wouldn’t place the core source somewhere easy to find. Otherwise, the barrier wouldn’t have lasted for centuries," Zion said at last, having finally pieced his thoughts together.

"They must have hidden it in a very obscure location, or perhaps there’s even some concealed mechanism hiding the entrance. To uncover it, we might have to comb through the entire forest, turning over every stone and tree in our path."

"That makes sense," Elric admitted with a heavy sigh, his shoulders slumping. "But the fact that we don’t have much time will make it harder. Before we finish searching, the people from our caravan might already be attacked by the Night Walkers."

"Then we can only die trying," Addison said firmly, urging them onward as she began scanning their surroundings with sharper focus. Seeing her like this, the others followed suit, spreading out just enough to search without straying too far from her side, careful not to vanish into the fog.

They suspected the mist carried illusion magic, or perhaps even a teleportation spell that could scatter them to different parts of the forest.

But under the soft, holy glow of the lantern’s light, they were safe from such tricks. The fog itself seemed to thin and retreat from its radiance, further confirming their suspicion that it carried some sort of disruptive magic, one they had no intention of testing.

"Hey, come here and look at this..." Zion finally called out, crouching beside a massive boulder thick with moss. His passion for reading about castles and architecture made it easy for him to guess where a hidden mechanism might be placed.

He had been checking the largest tree stumps and boulders he could find, scraping away years of moss and tangled vines with smaller stones to reveal what lay beneath, searching for inscriptions, markings, or even concealed buttons hidden on their surfaces.

Sure enough, after finishing with a tree stump that yielded nothing, Zion turned his attention to the large boulder. He scraped away years of moss until strange markings emerged, not letters, but symbols he didn’t recognize.

Unable to decipher them, he called out to the others. Within moments, everyone gathered around as he cleared the last stubborn patches of moss from the surface. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"This is a rune, placed in one of the four cardinal directions," Elric said, eyes lighting up with excitement. "If there’s a rune here, then it’s possible the entire clearing is actually part of an array. Quick—find the other runes so we can activate it!"

After hearing Elric’s words, Addison quickly scanned the area. If the runes were placed in all four cardinal directions, and this stone marked the West, then the remaining three would be in the North, East, and South.

The others came to the same conclusion, their gazes instinctively shifting toward those directions. But with the distances between them too far apart, splitting up wasn’t an option; they could only move together, searching for each rune one at a time.

With Addison leading the way, they decided to search north first, then move clockwise to find the rest.

The second rune was hidden beneath a curtain of thick vines, so well concealed that no one would have noticed it without clearing the overgrowth. Zion scraped away the moss to confirm it was indeed a rune before they pressed on.

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