“There is enough time,” I said as I opened my eyes and immediately appeared beside the door to the third floor.
It had taken me fourteen days and three hours to solve the formation, much longer than I would like. As I now have less than a day here, but still, I am feeling quite proud of myself for solving this second cipher in such a short time.
For a while, I thought I would not be able to do it, seeing how difficult it was, but I somehow did it.
Click!
I took a deep breath and began to move the runes on the door; within a minute, I finished, and the runes lit up, and I heard the clicking sound a few seconds later as the door opened.
I did not immediately walk inside; instead, I stepped back and turned toward the closest runic humanoid blueprint. I don’t know why, but my hands began to shake for some reason as I moved them toward the blueprint.
Finally, my hand touched the humanoid blueprint, and immediately, it had turned into seven, and all the blueprints became clear.
My eyes immediately turned toward the seventh, the biggest blueprint which is big as Grimms with very tiny runes.
Hun!
The size of runes did not impede me as I have begun to read the formation, which seemed simple as those present in the smallest blueprint, but the thing is, I did not seem to understand them.
It really confused me, and I tried again and again, but I did not seem to get understand about them. It is like these simple interconnected formations hiding some intent, and I have to understand it before I begin to study the blueprint of this inheritance.
I shook my head and moved toward another blueprint, thinking it was one of the strange ones that are present here, but to my surprise, the second primary level 3 blueprint was the same, and so was the third one.
There seemed to be a veil covering these blueprints, a veiled intent or some other things which I have no comprehension about.
So, unless I get an understanding of this invisible veil, I wouldn’t be able to study these, even If I tried for months and years.
As for how I will get the understanding, the answer to that is hidden in these blueprints. I felt like as long as I understood these inheritances thoroughly, I would get the key to understanding the inheritance.
Seeing that, I did not waste time studying them further and instead began to copy them. I copied all the primary level 3 inheritances of the second floor within a few minutes before moving to the first floor and did the same.
About half an hour later, I appeared in front of the door to the third floor, the last floor, about which my predecessor had so many words, but she was also very cryptic about it.
Taking a deep breath, I took a step inside the third floor, and the first thing that came to mind was that it was small and there was no blueprint here, which really surprised me because I had really thought there would be inheritance blueprints.
From the below, it seemed like there are blueprints here, but there are statues, which I couldn’t help but think were intentionally placed in here to mess with those who come here.
The lack of a blueprint did disappoint me, but I quickly calmed my emotions and focused my gaze on the center of the room.
In the center, there is a white marble stand and on the stand is the tome; a huge tome, a tome that slightly bigger than me.
On the first two floors, there were tomes, but they were at the size at which humans could read them comfortably. I had a creeping suspicion that those tomes were shrunk to human size. If someone of Grimm’s size had come, they would have been adjusted to their size.
This tome, on the other hand, is huge, bigger than me.
I walked toward it, and it beautiful; whoever did the binding must be really someone very talented. It is a treasure by design itself.
“The Basics of Clear Heart by Theodluin Enmaris,” I read before flipping to the cover, where there was an immensely beautiful painting of a lake in the forest; just a simple glace of it made my tired mind refreshed.
I looked at the painting for a minute before I flipped the page; there was a dedication on the page, the author had dedicated the book to his wife.
There is small poetry below the dedication that, reading it, tears couldn’t help but stream down from my eyes, and immediately memories of the marina flooded so intensely that I had needed minutes to calm my emotions.
I changed the page, but not before memorizing that small poem.
Soon, I reached the index, and taking a looked at it, I moved to the next page where the book had really begun.
I began to read, flipping one huge page after another unconsciously; the words that were written were so mesmerizing that it had captured my attention, and it took me hours to come to myself, and that is only due to my clone.
If it had not shouted at me, I would have continued reading.
I had read for three hours but barely finished even 3% of it; the pages are very thin, and it is over half a meter thick, it contains tens of thousands of pages, which would take days for me to read, and I do not have that much time.
So, I began to copy it, and immediately I stopped as it felt like I was committing the sacrilege.
This book is completely theoretical, but it is the best one I have read about my inheritance. It had explained everything so well that problems that had been bugging me with months of studying began to solve themselves up without even my conscious try.
The praises of my predecessor, which seemed to feel over the top, now felt underwhelming; for the first time, I felt like she hadn’t done justice to this tome; it deserves all the praises there are.
A few minutes later, I once again started copying; it felt wrong, but I continued, copying one after another.
It took me more than an hour to copy it; I could have been faster, but I decided to take it slow. It is the only way I could show my respect for this wonderful tome.
With the book copied, I did not stay on the third floor because I knew if I stayed there, I would open the tome and begin to read it, and I don’t have time for that. There is one more thing I should do before I leave this place.
I reached the second floor and began to watch the crystals; I had stayed from them after the first day, knowing they were a trap, but now I was done with everything; I could watch them.
It is such a regret that I could only watch one at a time, and the limited time I have wouldn’t be enough to watch it.
Still, I am grateful that I got the chance to watch at least some of them.
