Tim and Gustav explored the castle that they were in. This pce was even roomier than they had imagined, as they ended up expl several rooms, most of which looked like personal bedrooms, it was a big pce. The prior inhabitants have been living here for a while, so it was a bit sad that they died so unnecessarily, as simply, they could've kept their homes if their master wasn't so rash. These dead mages were one of the unluckiest humans in any universe!

  Apart from the bedrooms, they also saw a few workshops. Though they uood that one of them was a fe, and one of them was an alchemy b, they couldn't nearly uand what two of the other workshops were about, on the t that the tools there were very fn to them.

  Anyway, even though they explored most of the castle, they couldn't find any lever of sorts to open the door. The meics of the main door seemed very plex as well, they were ected to a bunch of old, rge meical bolts, springs, and other steel attats. One couldn't simply pick the lock, because there wasn’t a lock to begin with, as these long, four-foot wide metal beams barred the door, so, this door wouldn't open uhe attached meics were triggered!

  This was quite frustrating, because uhey were fortable with blowing a hole in one of the castle walls, they were stuck here. They could float down from the highest floor of the castle, but they'd rather find the lever instead. They wao preserve this castle, so they didn't want to take any shortcuts, or dismantle anything today, not even the barred windows, because an open window would make the castle perable! With huge is running around the universe, the st thing they needed was a surprise guest. They wao be safe in the castle, even if they ended up spending just a single day here at the end.

  “Maybe the lever is in the basement, man?” Gustav pitched, “Tonirus spoke to us from the sed story before he let us in, but he was a telekiic mage. If he could explode someone's heart from a hundred meters away, he surely flip a hidden lever from the fort of the library.”

  “We'll check the basement, then, it's not like we have anything to lose by just looking.” Tim followed along.

  The two of them went to the basement afterwards, and they went together, because it was the only pce that they hadn't checked through the past hour. Sure enough, they ran into something weird really quickly.

  They found a big room, it was about seveers wide, it was mostly square shaped, but had a pit of sorts in the middle. This pit was filled with those coal-like brains that he, and Gustav pulled out of that dead mantis' head.

  “That's one way to keep the is out,” Tim joked.

  Gustav walked into the room afterwards, squatted down to shine some light on the room, and then came with a clusion. It didn't take him long to put some pieces of the puzzle together.

  “The lumps are spent, this is a disposal room.” He pointed out, “I'm guessing it's dangerous to leave the lumps outside, because it may attract bugs. A spent cricket brain has to be less threatening, these brains are not keeping the is away. No ce.”

  The two of them couldn’t care less about spent cricket brains right now, so they walked out of the room, and tio explore the rest of the basement. Uhe several rooms above them, the basement seemed to be a limited space, its few rooms were tiny, and insignifit.

  There were a couple of cells as well, which made this pce almost look like a dungeon. There were three cells, and they were all shut, with the keys missing, which seemed a bit irresponsible, especially sihey also found a skeleton in one of those cells. This skeleton beloo a human, and by all means, this could’ve been someone who either broke the rules of the sect, or had simply ahe retly deceased sect master. Either way, it arent that this was a bad way to die.

  Anyway, the only other room here was just a ste room, and it only had worthless things in it, like brooms, and buckets. They could not find a lever here, and it would be weird if they did.

  The two of them gave up afterwards, and they wao get up in the castle, to rex for a bit. They po look for the lever again, after their heads cleared up. The castle was designed by humans, after all, so it ossible that they missed the lever because of the height differeween humans and goblins.

  While they walked up the stairs, in order to get back to the main floor, a small rat crossed their path. The rat seemed young, so he was as clumsy as he was eic!

  The rat jumped around in panice he heard the goblins walking towards it, and tried to climb up the walls. It failed, of course, but as it tried to climb up the walls, the fourth block, height-wise, suddenly caved in. This block was light to the touch, and after it ushed it dove in by about six inches, before it returo its inal position.

  A sed ter, they heard a bunetal bits g, and clig around the walls. This got the two of them very excited, because by all odds, the lever that they were looking for, was actually more of a button!

  They rushed out of the basement afterwards, and ran towards the entrance hall, where they saw that the main door was finally open! That button had triggered its hidden, plex meics, so now they knew how to get out of the castle without having to destroy its protective door! As fetting in, they had to settle with floating above the castle, to ehrough one of the hatches on the roof, because they didn't want to look for another button from outside the castle.

  Anyway, as the light of the outside world pierced their eyes, it also grabbed their attention. They looked outside, and ended up seeing three people that Tim at least, was very happy to see!

  They saw Skendus, Ortana, and Arvena! His friends found the castle as well.