Noah searched for any clues and soon he found the next clue. Next to the other door was a text written again. The text this time was not for make him the life impossible.
"Dear treasure hunter, you may ask why you walked for a few days and if this tunnel was a joke of mine. In part it was a joke, but principally it is to test the patience of the person. If you reached this point, then that means that you are a patient person. This point is too allow you to search for food and drink outside, but you can only leave this place from the roof once and enter once, if you think that you can go and come as you like then you are very wrong. Ah, there is more pause points like this, but from now on you must complete missions before leaving the pause point. Let us go!"
The text was written in an informal form and honestly Noah did not expect that an emperor would write like this.
"For a man that was older than 500 year, he was very humorful." Sighed Noah, he knows that this treasure hunt has only began and did not meet and an end.
"I thought it would be easy, but the things become only harder every time. I hope I finish with these tunnels soon."
But what Noah did not know is that his journey in the tunnels only began and he would spend here a lot of time.
Noah then climbed to the roof and saw that he was surrounded by a forest and the hole was very good hidden. From the outside it was not to see and if somebody found it by coincidence, then the poisonous plants around will make them run away.
"This is the biggest problem of strong magicians and knights, when they get bored, they begin to build unreasonable and big buildings or places. In the archeological magazine explained once that the strong cultivators above 300 years would get too bored and in this way all the famous buildings and world wonders are created. This should be the case of the first emperor too, he should have been too bored after he established the empire. After fighting for more than 200 years and establishing the empire for another 100 years, he was not accustomed to live normally in his jubilation."
Noah was talking about the first empire with Cutty, in these days he accustomed to speaking with the cat, then he had nobody to speak with. The cat would listen to him and gave him the feeling of understanding what he was saying. So, he felt very comfortable.
Once outside Noah hunted a few beasts and dried them and took only the best parts, before he saw a little lake. In the lake he washed himself. After days or weeks without cleaning himself, he felt very dirty, so this was perfect to him.
Thanks god he was a magician and could cast water, when he was thirsty, and he would not die because of not having water. But fresh water from the lake tasted much better, because it had that natural taste of rocks and minerals, not like the casted water, that was so neutral that it did not make any fun to drink it.
After he spent a day in the near of the lake, he returned at night to the hall and entered the tunnel again. Directly after crossing the other door, the door closed automatically, and light was lit on.
This time it was not candles who lit on, it was light crystals. Light crystals were very difficult to find and they were a natural source of light, that it was found in mines. Normally it would be found in the near of the mines of Mana stones.
As Noah saw the Light crystals, he became directly happier, then these stones were a sign that the emperor inverted a lot to build this tunnel and the tunnel lead to the most precious things of the emperor.
Usually the light crystals could only be found in palaces of the royal family and very high ranked nobles and very powerful magicians and knights. And even from those people only the royal families would be able to purchase the amount of light crystals that he could see in this tunnel.
"I cannot imagine how rich you were my beloved emperor; thanks to you I will be incredibly rich." Said Noah smiling. Honestly, Noah wanted to take those light crystals with him, then only these crystals were sufficient to bring him a fortune that nobody could imagine.
"No, if he already built a tunnel full with light crystals, then the treasure is better than this. I should concentrate myself on running to the next pause point." His temptation was stopped by his will and then he continued running.
Because he knew that he would reach the next point soon, he speeds up and a few days passed like this.
He ran the whole day and at the same time he resists the temptation of the light crystals.
"How can someone put every ten meters a light crystal in a tunnel that is hundreds of kilometers long. This wealth is ridiculous, it is normal that he had the funds to build such a long tunnel in this place."
Cutty was sitting on his shoulder and liked the feeling of the air blowing against his face. The cat was now only enjoying the loneliness in the tunnel.
And a few days passed again, and Noah was very bored and needed only to reach the next pause point. He hated the dry meet he was eating every day and needed fresh food. His temptation for the light crystals was gone, he realized that these crystals are useless if he could not even use them to exchange for fresh food right now. And as if the fate listened Noahs wish, he saw a light coming from the front and a door arc.
"Finally!"