The Lost Relics

[Swifty_Digger 7]

*Wind bellowed outside the Sanctus mines*

The dust swept up into Mahral's face as his pickaxe hit the cold, hard stone of the Sanctus mines. Long twisting corridors throughout the mine made it hard to find the way to the entrance, but Mahral had memorized each and every corridor of Sanctus, many miners have been killed due too loose stone giving way and crushing there skulls. Mahral continued down the path towards the exit as he spotted a body lieing amongst the rubble of some stone, he carefully lifted the stone so the body was in sight. it was a dead Elven traveller, the traveller held a ripped and dusty map within his palms, Mahral took a firm grip upon the map and slowly slipt it away from the dead travellers finger tips, Mahral glanced down at the map and blows the dust off into the foggy air of Sanctus, the map read *The Relic stones of Sanctus caverns*

"It looks like a map to some sort of Relic" Mahrals voice echoes through the caverns, Mahral continues his path to the Sanctus tavern "Ye mighty tavern" Mahral kept glancing towards the map with wonder on his face, he bashed through the door of the tavern yelling "All races of Asulon, I am going on an excpidition to find the lost Relics of Sanctus!Does anybody wish to join me?"

All the people within the tavern glared into the eyes of Mahral, a man by the name of Native stood up from his chair and said "You sir are crazy! There has not been treasure in these mines for years!" all the people within the tavern stood up and all together yelled "Aye!" and stormed out the door to continue there work.

Mahral slowly got out of his bed and readied his equipment, he bent over his work bench and placed one stick and carefully added two peices of gold, he walked over to his furnace and retrieved his metal hammer (Iron Axe) he slowly hit the metals and stick together too make a golden sword. He crept out his cabin being careful of the undead monsters (Just incase they heard him) He wandered into the Sanctus grabbing an iron pickaxe and slipping it onto his belt, the map said for him to dig in an easterly direction until he found what could be a type of mossy brick, Mahral began to dig.

Dust swept through the tunnels of Sanctus as he dug into the walls *coughs a little and says* "I think I am close" breathing heavily he takes a rest stop and writes into his diary *Dear whoever finds this,

I have come along way from the initial tunnels of Sanctus, I have a tickle in my stomach, I begin to think this is a sign that I am getting close to the entrance of the ruins, I am beggining to feel an evil presence in the air as if I have disturbed some sort of creature within Sanctus......*

Mahral hits the stone with a final *smack* with his pickaxe and a eerie echo goes through the caverns as the wall infront of him collapses into a deep dark hole, Mahral looks infront of him and gasps as he sees ruins of a bridge leading to the other side "I wont give up! I will have to jump the gap..." Mahral says bravily, he steps back for a running jump and gains grip on the stone beneath him, his feet quickley gain speed over to the gaping hole beneath the gap, he leaves the ground and glides across the dark ravine below him, he grabs for the edge of the bridge and pulls himself up as little bits of rock fall into the abyss.......*the rocks hit the ground with a large thump* Mahral swipes the sweat off his forehead and continues his path along the twisting tunnels of Sanctus.

Mahral arrives at a crossing with what looks like cannons bearing cannon balls and arrows, Mahral slowly puts one foot forward onto the pressure plate and it clicks sending arrows and fire balls across the room infront of him, Mahral quickly withdraws his foot from the pressure plate and say to himself "maybe jumping into the gaps would help" Mahral readies himself for the suicide mission ahead and leaps into the first gap and says "easy!" he readies for another jump and leaps again, accidentally placing a toe on the pressure plate the fireballs shoot into my face, leaving fire on the side of my place, I quickley reach for my water bottle and pour it over the fire, I screech "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" as the steam lifts I glance at the damage of my face in the refllection of the spilt water, there are excessive burns all over the left side of my face, I sit to rest for the journey ahead, *I write in my diary about my past experiances with the traps*

I get up off the cold floor of Sanctus and continue pressing further. I reach a long dark hallway full of minions of Iblees, I drew my sword from my belt and charged forward into the first minion, I impaled the minions face with my sword as it fell to the ground a poisonous spider crept up on me and took a huge bite out of my leg, I feel faint as I fall to the stone of Sanctus. I awaken from the pain and stare down at my leg too see a huge chunck of flesh takin out of it *My heart sinks* I wrap a bandage around my leg and lie back down to wait for the pain to pass, A minion rushes in and leaps at my face I reach for my sword and grab it, I quickley pull it to my front and the minion falls directly onto it, blue blood spilling all over me I yell "Throw whatever you want at me Iblees! I will never back down!" I get my footing on the ground and continue slashing at the minions of the dark. I slowly reach the exit from the hallway and see a magical stone sitting in the centre of an abandoned room, light glaring down upon the stone, mystical orbs arose from its surface I dropped my sword and with the last of my energy ran towards it, an Amphisbaena (two headed serpent) fell from the ceiling and struck me through the chest with a poisonous blast, I fell to the ground my life being absorbed by the darkness and my soul slowly leaves my body.....forever.

Now it is up to you adventurer to slay the Amphisbaena and claim the treasure of Sanctus for your own! be wary of the dreaded minions of Iblees and look for my journal entries along the way! they may contain secrets to the mines of Sanctus and its treasures!

((Hope you enjoyed reading some Lore for a dungeon :D))

[Swifty_Digger 7]

This post is not fully completed will be adding more detail later