Apocrypha Treasure Map 1 Novels & Stories

I said confidently and then grabbed the compass from Chloe, opened the incision, and poured some of the liquid in it onto the edges of the paper. After a short while, the edges faded, revealing a text at each corner of the map. “You’ll find what you need beyond the art. 249162” I smiled, shifting my gaze towards Chloe, and pointed to the artwork. “We got it.”

Instead, he opened the watch again and examined it more closely. A faint smile crossed his face. "There's another compartment." Using the edge of his thumbnail, he pressed a hidden catch beneath the hinge. A second panel sprang open. Inside... Was a tiny strip of folded parchment. Much smaller than the first note. Elara unfolded it carefully. This time, there were no riddles. Only a map. A narrow mountain trail marked in red. Across the top, in Elias Arden's unmistakable handwriting, were three words. Avoid the road.

"⁠You ha​ve no sta⁠nd​i‌ng here!" "Ac​tua​lly​," I sa​id‌, p‌l​acing the bri‍efcase on the table, "he does⁠." I op‍ened the case. I pulled out a⁠ single, r⁠ol​led parchment. It l​ook‍ed ancient, yel‍lo⁠wed, and smelled faintl​y of old ros‌es. "What is that?" St. Cla​ir sneered. "A⁠ treasur‌e map?"

My chest is heaving, and my body has broken out in a sweat, while my heart races a million miles an hour. I scan Lucien's room for any sign of his return, before noticing a map and necklace with a small pink-heart shaped amulet. "What on earth?" I wonder to myself as I reach out and pick them up. I look over the amulet, turning it over to see the name Aphrodite engraved into it. Setting it back down next to me, I take a minute to scan over the map. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me." I groan, seeing how far I am going to have to travel.

The others exchanged glances but did not give up. “Let me try.” Norvin also added a drop of his blood and added it to the map. The result was the same. There was no change in the map. Next, Damian, Ronald, and Tyrell, as well as the experts under them all tried to add their blood. However, nothing happened. Norvin suddenly looked at Andrius. “This treasure map belongs to the Kleins. Maybe it requires the blood of a member of the Kleins to make it change.”

They did not think it was possible for Wilbur to be so wealthy. However, the screenshot had proven them wrong, so Aite said, "Mister Penn, I apologize for my brashness with you just now. We do actually have detailed information on the treasure, including a map to get to it as well. That might sound ridiculous to you, but it's the truth. That treasure was actually left behind by a previous civilization. There's an entrance deep in the Vicente Primeval Forest that leads to an underground castle that the people from that previous civilization built to draw water from the great lake."

"What did you find?" She emptied the pouch onto the bed, there were three smooth black stones and a silver key, a piece of parchment was also flooded underneath. Rynese leaned over her shoulder. "I vote we look at the parchment before we start guessing what mysterious rocks do." "Agreed," Valkyrie said. Zara unfolded it, unlike the last note, this one wasn't written in sentences. It was a rough sketch and a map. The underground tunnels stretched across the page like veins, branching in every direction. Several routes had been crossed out with thick charcoal lines but only one remained untouched. It ended at a circle marked with a single symbol. A crescent moon.

I could taste dirt in my mouth and feel the walls tighten around me. I finally reached the end, and it opened into a small cavern, large enough for me to sit up. In a corner there was a roll of parchment. What was it? A treasure map? A magic scroll? I unrolled it. A piece of charcoal fell out. The page was covered in drawings. Quite realistic poses of the female mouse, on her back, legs open showing her privates. In detail. A lot of close-up detail.

"That means he holds a secret he cannot allow anyone to discover. And whatever that secret is, Hailey and Keegan must have stumbled onto it." A sharp light flashed in his eyes. He struck the desk with his palm. "What is the greatest secret in the apocalypse? Resources." He leaned forward. "The massive shipment missing from Volmart… It's in his hands. And he is hiding it with some kind of spatial ability!"

It had been damaged in the scuffle; the heavy leather back cover had been sliced by a jagged nail on the floorboards. As she touched the tear, she felt something hard tucked inside the lining. "Wait," she whispered. She peeled back the leather. Tucked into a hidden pocket in the spine of the book was a small, transparent piece of film—a microfiche—and a folded, hand-drawn map. Lucas knelt beside her, his anger replaced by an intense curiosity. He took the map. It wasn't a map of a city or a building. It was a schematic of a diamond—the Eternal Willow. But there were notations on the sides in her mother's elegant handwriting.