Chapter 119: Secure Base

They headed for the first hidden passage. Just as Cyrus had warned, it had already been wrecked. Cyrus led Bruce Yale and the others to the ancestral temple of the Jastonian Royal Family, where the ancestors' tablets were enshrined. In the innermost storeroom, a secret stairway dropped into the earth. They followed it down. The staircase ran long-at least a hundred meters-before it ended at a heavy metal door. The door had a mechanical lock. Cyrus worked at it for a good while, sweat beading on...