Free Ultimus Thesaurus: The last Treasure (Era of Change Book 1) by Maximilian Warden Page A

After some time, I was no longer able to keep it in my hand, as the magnetic force wrested it from me. It flew through the air with such an incredible speed, that I could hardly see it, before it vanished in the mask of the man.
    Suddenly the light went out, leaving me inside the now dark cell, while the man woke up and began to move. Every time he breathed, the runes on his body began to flash. His former weakened appearance got ever so pumped with every breath that he took until it finally made the runes emit such a strong light, that it flooded the room anew.
    “Where is he? Where is the Sun King? He will pay for what he has done to me,” he said with a dark voice and fanned the fear in my heart.
    “The Sun King? You mean the legendary king of Atlantis? I did not even know that he was real. You have been here for a while it seems. The king must have died a long time ago. But I need your help,” I said, but the man seemed not to care for me and walked past me.
    “Wait! Jasper Lawrence sent me, but that probably tells you nothing. We need to go to Singasteinn, can you help me?” I called after him, whereupon he stopped.
    “Singasteinn? What do you want in the country of the titans? The Sun King has not spared them.”
    “And why are you still alive? He has spared you.”
    He came back and stood before me, while the runes on his body increasingly charged up.
    “Human, do not forget who you are. He locked me away because he wanted to steal my knowledge. No one except me can activate the island. But if the king is dead, then someone must have thwarted his plan. This world would no longer exist if the knowledge had been decrypted. I must immediately return to the Iron City. My brothers must have secured the knowledge there.”
    “You can’t be so sure. The man who sent me to free you, he has found a part of it. We must make sure that no one else will find it. But I believe that someone may already be searching for it.”
    The titan looked down at me and began to laugh. He knocked me so strongly on the shoulder that I almost fell forward and said: “You remind me of the Sun King. He also was a man who didn’t know his place. Let us travel to Singasteinn. But if it turns out that you have lied to me, to steal the knowledge, than I will kill you.”
    With every further step I wondered what life Jasper had led. Slowly I understood why he could never return. He was the reason why this world existed. And now that he was dead, we had to take his place, even if this was not always easy.

Chapter 11: The Corpse of a Hero

    I followed the titan, who despite his name wasn't as big as I would’ve imagined him. He resembled a human so much that at first he wouldn’t even seem that different, were it not for the glowing blue runes on his skin. We ran up to a guard control point, but it was unmanned and the titan stopped. He touched a stone, mounted on a metal plate and closed his eyes.
    “Here it is. With these stones they control the cells. I will now show you why the Sun King feared me,” he said and the runes on his body darkened.
    He sent out a strong pulse, which I felt but could not see. It took only a few seconds, until he opened his eyes again and let go of the stone.
    “This world is old. Many of which I knew are no longer, but how could all this happen? I can still not believe that a human should have managed to open the chambers of Singasteinn. And you human, you I seem to have underestimated. Behind all that fear that you bear, I can see a deep and strong anger. Your plan to sacrifice the people, who helped you infiltrate this place, and your betrayal of the woman you love. You don’t want to save the knowledge, you want to destroy it.”
    I wasn’t sure how he did it, but he had managed to read my mind like an open book. He must have used the energy from the prison network to use this ability.
    “I am fighting for what I believe is right. Initially I wanted to save this book and I wanted to believe that with