“Angor. I hope you did,” A mild smile appeared on Sunders’ disappointed expression. He quickly leaped into the door.
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Angor was still climbing, unaware of his teacher’s arrival.
Angor had been moving upward for a long time now. The hologram tablet indicated that he climbed for about three hours. He saw many rooms along the stairs, all of which had similar objects in them, only with different contents in their bedstand drawers.
Apart from the green booklet in the first room, all the other rooms had daily life supplies, and most of them already rotted to ash.
He did not find anything else that was valuable.
Another door with light coming from it came into his view. Angor got used to them. He would see one of these every ten to fifteen minutes.
As always, Angor walked inside the room to check. In the beginning, Angor was excited about searching the rooms like a treasure hunter. However, after going through dozens of rooms, he no longer felt so. They all looked the same, and boringly unrewarding.
This time though, the room brought him some surprise.
The room was actually decorated in a different way. It was not a single small room, but it had an extra bedroom in it. The furniture was still similar, but there was more space.
The outer area did not yield anything worth noticing. Angor entered the bedroom and found another bedstand with two drawers on it, which meant it could hold more stuff.
Angor first pried the lock off the top drawer. There were several clothes inside which would absolutely become ash if he touched them. The lower drawer, on the other hand, contained something interesting—a parchment scroll, tied by a rope.
Angor carefully removed the scroll from the drawer. The parchment was smooth and solid to the touch. It did not decay with time.
He untied the scroll and spread it open on the bed. It showed a strange picture, like a map. However, the map was drawn inside the body of a monster. The monster looked like something humanoid, it had arms and legs, and was making a strange pose.
He did not know what he was looking at. Intending to take everything he found with him, he recorded the scroll into his tablet… before he stuffed the scroll into a pocket. Angor decided to take it away.