I am a dragon! Help me! (TOME 4 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)

TRIAL

Madam, I hope this is not a joke! Kid, can you wait for us outside? You can go and play but don't walk in the ruins.

Me: Professor Prius! I would like you to be open-minded for once and accompany me to the ruins.

I know that you have just discovered period "latrines" but you are making a big mistake. These are stables and the symbols you have just discovered are a coded alphabet of ancient hunters. I know these symbols and I can decipher them for you. It tells of the pilgrimage required for apprentice knights and these are testimonies of the passage in Zargocenes. And it is not a proof of King Uther. Uther died 200 years before.

It is the infamous OTHAR! The O before was written UT as the C is UT!

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP.

"Brilliant, my boy. We can see that you have learned the lesson well but here, rote doesn't work".

Me: "So, I challenge you".

Amused, Professor Prius went out and came with me!

Prius: "I'm listening to you, teacher in short pants", with a smile on his face.

Me: Professor: here are the traces of a fortress but the dungeons are gone. There is a supporting wall, here is the armory; and scraping the floor, yes, the key, I had put it under this stone.

The sewer and I show a pile of stones.

Here the refrigerator: refractory stones.

The one with a staircase going up.

I can make you a diagram of the woodwork that has disappeared but it connects to the stones here and there.

I am too weak, but open here, there is a big stone.

Two assistants removed some of the dirt.

Ah, here is the runic symbol.

I put my hand down and recite a draconian formula and a tremor! A huge stone started to roll and opened the passage to a cave.

Dumbfounded, mother and the teacher were astonished by the presence of this hidden underground.

Prius: "But how do you know???"

"I lived here 1300 years ago!"

Wait, don't go down, it's dark! It's dangerous, it could collapse.

So I recited the light formula and put it on a rune in the entrance and a network of luminous stones lit up the underground.

"Unbelievable, what a discovery. I went down and the stones lit up as I passed.

Then I stood in front of a large Bronze gate.

What a colossal construction! It's an archaeological find!

Professor, there is an object that belongs to me in this ruin, a small block of metal.

The remainder I do not care but it returns to me.

If you force the door, everything will collapse. I know how to open it.

I bit my finger and spilled my blood on a stone on the door and runes appeared and the door opened by itself.

There rested three large dinosaur skeletons in various states of ruin.

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KRAAAAAAAAAAAA!

ORICHALQUE