"Well, that's something..." Hector spoke as he watched Walter cook.

Others could only nod in agreement. While They also took provisions with them they were not that prepared.

'Hunters...' Hector thought continuing to eat his food. While resting to alleviate their exhaustion.

"What type of creatures were they?" Bella asked.

"They were some kind of humanoid creatures if they were originally humans only to be transformed because of some kind of corruptive force, or they were monsters, to begin with, I can't tell.

"But their bestial limbs were something else. As you could see only those that were alive had them and those that were dead had only halfway transformed limbs.

"And from the last one, we can tell that there is a possibility of full transformation. I don't know if there is some kind of mechanism or if it was our luck that he transformed when he did.

"From the carvings on the walls, we can tell that there is some kind of precedent to it. One could hope that farther down we will no longer meet them but as we are still at the beginning of the tomb... Anything can happen."

When Walter finished speaking he took out his pan from the fire and started to eat his food.

"Do you know to whom this tomb belongs or who originally owned the house?" Walter then asked Edwin, as he was the one that gathered them to explore the tomb.

"House belonged to Daniels family who lived here for two generations but after financial troubles, they had to move.

"Before them, Edna's family owned this property, and they lived here for decades. And there were families before them.

"You see, the house is relatively new as a few decades it had burned down. It is downstairs that remained. I don't know when it was built as the style is different than what was usually built in this or previous era.

"Of course, it could have been that the one who build it had his own taste in buildings and did not follow the norm."

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After short rest, Hector and the rest of the group decided to continue on their journey to explore the rest of the tomb.

They once again descended down the ladder, and now they walked to the second balcony unbothered by the strange creatures or transformed beasts.

While walking to the balcony they did not stop watching their surrounding for any signs of danger or some loot.

Fortunately, they meet no danger while walking to the second balcony, but unfortunately, they also found no more loot.

When they got to the balcony they saw a same-looking ladder going to the top.

Hector went first while Anna was second, Bella third, Edwin fourth, And lastly Walter fifth.

When they got up their surroundings looked the same as before. Hector got a weird feeling and looked around himself. Then he walked to the doors that should have led deeper to the tomb, but what he saw was the path that they took at the beginning.

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"How... We are back at the first balcony." He said to others.

Then Edwin looked to confirm his statement and then nodded.

"Yes, you are right..." Hector could see that Edwin started to think about what to do next.

'Of course, why there should not be space f*ck*ry.' Hector sighed and tried to think about what to do.

'Well there can be another path somewhere under us or we need to dispel whatever this is.

'Wait!

'Because of feeling from my chains I took this mission, to begin with, maybe they could help. And now that they are transformed into thorny vines I have better control of them.'

Hector closed his eyes and concentrated on the vines in his heart. He felt as if they stirred and with them, his whole self had shifted. He could feel a pull in a certain direction, and so he opened his eyes and spoke, "I know where to go, follow me."

He then walked down the ladder with only one glance at the rest of the group. Anna was the first who started to walk, rest followed after her.

He could hear them speak some words but he concentrated on the way forward that was shown to him by the vines.

When he got down the ladder he did not walk to the balcony but to the right.

Others followed him as they did not know where to go.

After some time he abruptly stopped, when he looked around himself he saw no door or path that led anywhere.

Before him, he saw only the wall, but he could feel that this was the path.

'Illusory wall? Huh... if this tomb would have a proper designer then they would know that you should put them only before some treasure, not continuing of the main path.'

"Well, it looks like it is a dead end. Now we should return back and I will..." Edwin was speaking but stopped when Hector took out his hammer and swung at the wall.

The swing on itself was not that surprising, but it did not hit the wall. Hammer passed the wall without any problems. Then part of the wall started to disperse until the new path was visible in its place.

"So it was an Illusion," Anna spoke.

Hector then walked through the new path to the other side and the rest of the group followed.

While walking through some corridors they could see different carvings on the walls.

These showed hunched people being transformed into creatures with three arms and mouths split from which tentacles grew. Their skin had no fur and their whole design was different than those on previous parts of the tomb.

In the end, Hector and the rest of the group saw a great carving of something that to Hector looked like Amigdala from Bloodborne had a baby with a hairless monkey.

When they got to the end of the corridor he could see a hall with a multitude of doors.

At the first, he wanted to just open them all to see what is behind them. But when he get close to one of them he was flooded by a feeling of dread and so he hurriedly backed away.

"...We should not open any door recklessly," he said while turning to the rest of the group.

"What a strange puzzle," Edwin spoke as he walked to each of the doors individually.

"I don't think it is meant to be a puzzle," Anna spoke also observing the doors.

'When you don't know an answer go with your feelings.' Hector thought as he once again concentrated on the veins which showed him the path.

And once again they had guided him to the specific door on the left side of the room.

"This should be the door" Edwin spoke as he stood before the wooden door with the marking of the dragon.

"I don't think so," Hector spoke as he let himself be guided by the vines but Edwin dismissed his comment and opened the door.

When the door was fully opened the group could hear a loud roar and a giant stream of fire, which directly hit Edwin. Leaving only charred legs behind.

"Edwin!" Walter and Bella yelled in unison.

Hector was surprised and prepared himself for another attack when the door that Edwin opened shut itself.

After a few moments of looking for any possible danger, he turned back at the remains of Edwin and chuckled.

'Of all things that could happen, this I did not expect. Jumping monster or hidden trap but this was interesting to watch.' Hector thought as he felt nothing from the death of Edwin and went to the remains to see if anything valuable survived.

Luckily phantasmal creature survived, not even a speck of harm could be seen on it.

"We should take what remained and move on." What he said was cold but others knew that now is not the time to be sentimental.

"Maybe we should go back, it is becoming too dangerous," Bella spoke and Walter agreed.

But when they looked back they saw that path through which they entered was no longer there.

"What happened? Where is the exit?" Walter spoke as he went to see if it just become illusory. But no matter where he struck no path showed itself.

'Sh*t' Was all that Hector thought as he spoke, "Well it looks like our only option is to go forward."