“Good job, you make a good team.” Caroline looked around and instantly locked onto the position of the metal door the lycans can access this underground hall, then she rushed over and melted the keyhole to prevent the lycans from coming in through it. Then she cast a few layers of hardening spell on it as well - not as efficient or meticulous as Jason’s or Laura’s, but would serve for a short while.
The hall underneath the restaurant was quite obviously an actual part of this historical building instead of something the owners built for other purposes - the team could see relief sculptures, stone altars, old and vintage style brick floor and marble plates embedded in places for decoration purposes. The apparently new additions here included the metal array made of thin metal plates and threads, some shiny candle holders around the array made of dark red rocks. There were also portions of this metal array that dug into the ground and possibly had parts that ran deeper below.
“Thanks. Now, where is your tracing spell?” Jason nodded.
“It’s somewhere in this room - ” Caroline looked around: “But this whole place is muddying the waters for me - I can’t sense its exact location.”
The lycans continued to roar outside of the metal seal, some of them were also trying to dig through the ground and attempted to enter the room the same way the humans did. Yet Jason and Laura’s spells and arrays not only sealed off the breach they created, they also hardened the ceilings around which made it harder for the lycans to break through.
“Jason, can you search for a place to exit? I think I’ve seen this kind of array before.” Laura knelt down at the center of the hall and said: “Caroline, I may need your help here. I will try to figure out the internal energy flow of this array, and once we figure it out, you can try to input your energy directly into it and you can find out where it ultimately ends, right?”
“Sure.” Jason’s whole body glowed in silver light, and many tiny energy threads were released from his body and expanded in all directions around him like tentacles.
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“Thomas, watch the door.” Aimee nodded at Thomas and said: “Laura, right? Do you need help with this array?”
“Sure. Can you help me trace this line and this symbol?” Laura nodded at Aimee, then pointed at a symbol on her side.
“Bang bang bang!” The lycans on the other side of the metal magic seal kept on banging and scratching at the seal itself as well as the areas around, and at the same time, so other lycans rushed to the metal door whose keyhole Carolin just melted and began banging on it and growling from behind, shouting all kinds of threats and obscenities.
Seeing that the walls around the metal door were getting cracked up, which might become the actual breach points for the lycans, Thomas immediately chanted the only hardening spells he knew but was not too familiar with - an adjusted “fire shield” spell, onto the walls around the door.
“Any progress? They seemed to be getting close here!” Thomas took a step back and away from the back of the door to avoid himself being bashed or his sight being blocked by the door should the lycans break the door down and come through.
“Found it! Here!” Aimee turned around and pointed at a small gem embedded in the array.
“Nice!” Laura had locked down two other gems, which formed an obtuse triangle with the gem found by Aimee, indicating that they were only parts of a greater array: “Okay, so that’s three - should be enough for us. Alright, Caroline, all of these three gems, can you infuse your energy into them with equal amounts of energy? And try to make it resonate with your tracing spell?”
“On it.” Caroline lit up three tiny fireballs and pushed them to land on the three gems. The three fireballs were absorbed by the gems in a short instant, and the next moment, Caroline felt that her energy was being funneled to a small tunnel underground and to one end of the underground hall.
When Caroline looked to the direction where her energy was being funneled, which was at the exact opposite side of the stone altar, she saw a stone tomb hidden in the shadows with a piece of black cloth neatly placed upon it. Judging from the size of the stone tomb, it was most probably for a child or a miniature animal.
“There - you see it?” Caroline pointed at the stone tomb: “That tomb.”
“Tomb?” When the others turned to the direction to which Caroline was pointing, they all looked somewhat confused.
“What tomb?” Aimee asked.
“I don’t see a tomb, but I DO sense something there.” Jason said with a frown: “And, uh, there seems to be a tunnel under there, which may be the only exit out of here.”