It was a narrow entrance, part of it was obstructed by some stones that with only one pick could be removed, fortunately, there was room for one at a time to enter, the way down was quite spacious, enough for ten people to walk side by side.

As they walked through the maze, William tried to remember the facts he had read.

If he was not mistaken, the mazes were staggered in various forms, the smaller ones had a similar extent to the interior of a large noble house, would have approximately 60 rooms that would be linked by a large number of paths, his defense was only the entanglement of paths, these were the ones built by small temples, if it were the little one, he probably would probably find nothing.

The second would be those built by the high priests of large temples, these would be twice to quadruple the size of the little ones, and as a defense in addition to using a large number of paths, it also had some traps that were scattered throughout the place, this maze. If there was a great possibility of having rare ritual books, it would be nice if the current maze were at least this one.

The third type of maze was that made by various temples and nobles, were made with extreme complexity, had an absurd amount of traps and an extremely confusing path, the treasures that could be found in this type of maze was stupendous, with luck could in a this maze makes him almost as rich as a Lannister or with so much ritual information that he could supply any problem he had.

And finally, there was the 'Great Labyrinth', this would be the biggest of them all, some say that even if the entrance was in Lorath, this labyrinth would extend beneath the whole continent, so big that it would be a great misfortune to come across.

To identify which maze you were in, besides completing it, of course, would be by analyzing some symbols that were printed on the entries.

A symbol like 'G' would be for the little ones, something like an 'R' would be for the medium, for the big one would be two symbols which resembled 'C' and another with 'V', the only distinction would be In the 'Great Labyrinth' which had no symbol, it was just a cave that you would unluckily enter and never leave alive.

Carefully William approached the wall and began searching for that symbol, noting the marks on the slopes on the walls he eventually found, but to his misfortune, it was only partially visible most had been destroyed by time, the part that was visible resembled the bottom of the "C", but he wasn't sure.

Looking around the symbol for a missing "V" to his dismay, he found nothing, probably not a "C" but a "G".

With a little sadness about his discovery, William began to decide whether to try to complete this maze today or another day.

Thinking about the pros and cons he eventually decided to return to the city and come back the other day with more supplies and properly prepared.

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Even though it was a small maze, unlucky it could get lost for a while, it was better to beware.

Other day.

The expedition to find the end of the maze was beginning, it was time to pick up the treasure and then go after the clues.

The maze was slightly confusing, but with luck after a few hours they made it to the treasure room.

In the center of the chamber was just a circular object on a small stone table.

William approached followed by Emilly and the other guards, he began to observe the object closely, it was a small black sphere with several silver symbols embedded in its surface, there was something that attracted him, it seemed that the small object attracted him for some reason but he dared not touch it, the said treasure might be a trap, but after looking for a while he could see nothing strange.

"Why wait so long? just take it, "says Emilly and quickly takes her hand and takes the object.

She took the object and then threw it in the air for William to pick it up.

The moment the cold surface touched his hand the symbols on the sphere changed from silver to gold.

A strange voice was whispering something in William's ears, but it was too low for him to hear.

Blinking his eyes he looks surprised at the sphere that was back to normal with the silver symbols and then he turns his look to Emilly.

"See, just get it." Emilly spoke with an expression that said: I know everything.

The floor crumbles.

Cough, cough, cough.

A lot of dust was in the air, it was horrible to breathe under these circumstances, so as the dust subsides, William is graced with the sight of a library full of books, but most striking, more than the books, was that impressively there was a tunnel with two very visible marks.

These being a large 'C' and a small 'V' just below, to their surprise it seemed that beneath the small-grade maze treasure chamber was the large-grade maze treasure room.

William looked at all these events without understanding what was happening.

What was the possibility of something like this happening?

This was certainly much harder to happen than winning the lottery.

With a look around, he only saw books, apparently, that was all the treasure, not that he was complaining, in this room there must have been more than 3000 books, a sweet surprise, but more has always been better.

Without waiting a second William began his hunt the ritual books.

The books that were here mostly reported methods for to make a maze, there were about 1800 books just for that purpose, the other 400 were about metallurgy, 500 about mining and the remaining 300 were about various forms of rituals.

It was an absurd thing, just looking at some titles William was eager to know their information. But first he needed to read the ritual books the rest could wait.

3 months later.

William was able to read all the books that didn't need to be studied in a month, these being most of them, luckily they were small books they were quick to read, the problem was in separating the information, but even so, he would only read the books to understand their contexts, but those who needed study and attention took almost 2 months to finish.

The profits from this expedition were monstrous, the amount of information he obtained was enormous, apart from that he had been able to formulate 10 possible ways to create other Lycans, he just needed to test them now.