Chapter 122

DRAKE, TARA, AND THEO arrived at the odd-looking cave. Its mouth stood only seven to eight feet tall and seven feet wide. It was just enough for someone's body. The edges were also jagged and it seems like someone was chipping the stones on the edge to make it wider enough. They stared up at the symbols etched at the entrance of a cave.

Tara ran her fingers on the symbols within her reach.

"It is just like what the messenger told me. The symbol of Illinor embedded at the center with a dozen words of a language that we were not born to use," she recalled.

Theo looked around and then stiffened. He turned to the right where a familiar road lies ahead. "This is the end of the third branch from the center, Drake," he said in a low voice.

Drake nodded. "I noticed that, too."

"Come on, we need to finish our mission here and get back to find Drêy, Maji and Vivien," Tara urged them and walked inside ahead. The two men followed her, their hands gripping the handl