Page 66 of The Hellbeast's Betrayal

“Or we could try this,” Marcus said after using his brain and reading an inscription he found hidden on the wall. One only shown once he brought his staff up to glow next to it. This was because the writing was white etched into the pale marble. This made it only visible when light was held a certain way against it. Along with the hidden panel to press that made the entrance to the hidden cave open.

“Ah see, there it is,” Tyr stated with a smirk, making my brother laugh before slapping him on the back, saying,

“I am sure had you knocked the temple down, we would have found it at some point.”

Tyr took this as lighthearted jest, making the temple echo with his laughter. One that was thankfully abandoned, or this mission would have been over before it even begun.

“After you,” I said, prompting Marcus to go first, seeing as he was the one with the light source. As well, I didn’t think it would be quite as effective lighting up the tunnel with my eyeballs glowing red like pointless fucking headlights.

“I swear if there is one fucking rope bridge, I am going back,” Orth complained, making me scoff.

“Yeah, well any shit like last time and I will be throwing both your arses over the edge.”

“Do I want to know?” Tyr asked, making all three of us say at once,

“No!”

“No!”

“No!”

To which he held up his hands in surrender.

We continued on through the tunnel, one that would open up wider in parts before narrowing again. However, the next time it started to get bigger, it continued until we were facing a cavernous space. As if someone had hallowed out part of the mountain and what we found was…

A fucking tomb.

“Fuck me, that’s a lot of bones,” Orthrus said, and he wasn’t fucking wrong. There must have been hundreds of thousands, all piled up in pyramids that almost reached the top. Hell, there looked like it could have been millions of pieces of bone, making me wonder how many creatures that would have made?

“Hey, J, do these bones remind you of…” Marcus started to say, making me finish,

“HellHounds,”I said the second one of the skulls rolled towards me. One I ended up stopping with my foot.

“What the Hell?” Orth muttered in awe.

“Right choice of words there, what the fuck are all of these doing here?” Marcus asked.

“I wish I knew but whatever the reason, someone went to a lot of effort to bring these all here,” I said, making my brother frown in question and prompting me to point out, “Well think about it, they couldn’t have all died down here, could they?”

“But then why would anyone be stock piling bones?”

I shook my head.

“I have no clue, and I don’t really ever want there to come a point where I find out,” I said, as for whatever the reason, it wasn’t going to be for anything good.

Speaking of not good, Marcus stopped long enough to find a different type of horned skull, picking it up and telling me,

“It looks like these aren’t just all HellHound bones after all, this looks like a Chimera offspring.”

I frowned at that, while my brother snatched the skull and said,

“Nah, it looks more like an Erymanthian Boar.”

“Are you fucking blind, caveman? It looks like a Chimera!” Marcus argued, making me roll my eyes.

“Yeah, I wonder how it would look if it was stuffed up your ass, we could call you asshorn for the rest of your life,” my brother retaliated.

“Would you two quit it, we are supposed to be doing this quietly,” I growled back at them, making my brother toss the skull to the pile, before he kept walking.

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