Picking up Girls With My System

Chapter 215 Arriving at the Hidden Palace

A damp cave with minimum light. Arthur had found it during his search for the place where the Doom Order was.

He was there with Signy, Helga, and Finn, waiting for Sven to wake up. They needed answers about where the palace was, and the only person who could give that to them was Sven.

Arthur sat on a rock inside the cave, calmly waiting for Sven to wake up, and when he did, it was time to get some answers from him.

“Finally awake, hum?” Arthur said.

“Where am I?”

Sven woke up scared, looking at all sides, trying to figure out what was happening. When he placed his eyes on Arthur and saw him looking at him with a smirk, a bad feeling erupted inside of him.

“How do you want to suffer?”

Arthur walked up towards him, grabbed his hand, and exerted his tremendous strength, breaking his fingers.

“Agggrr!”

“This is only the beginning. You and I will be best friends!”

With that, the round of torture began. Sven was strong at first, resisting the pain and not telling anything Arthur wanted to know, but after some time, he admitted defeat.

Arthur knew some healing spells, and one thing he did was hurt Sven to the point of almost no return, and then healing him back to start the torture once again.

Signy, Helga and Finn were watching everything from the side, and they felt an immense fear inside after witnessing the torture methods Arthur came up with.

“He seems skilled in torture. I am happy he is in our team.”

“I- I will tell you everything. Please stop!”

The reason for Sven enduring that much was because he thought Arthur would not kill him, as he was the only one that had the information they were looking for.

But even he, who had a strong will, could not last in that endless cycle of torture.

Sven shared the location of that palace the Doom Order was. It was also hidden behind a magical formation, but luckily Sven had the key to undo the formation, so not that much of a problem.

Just like Arthur had guessed, the palace was near the shore. To be more precise, it was above water, floating in the air.

He also learned more about the situation the Doom Order was in. It seemed there was a door inside that palace that needed a blood sacrifice to work.

Aria, Hiley and Cedric were there with them, but they would not be used as a sacrifice, and that is why Sven went out after some others, which turned out to be Signy and Helga.

“Do they have other plans for my friends? But that would mean they already know what is inside the palace.”

Arthur tried to get even more information from Sven, but even he did not know that. It was so important that only the high ups from the Doom Order knew about, which made Arthur even more curious to learn about.

Still, knowing that his friends would not be used as a human sacrifice was good enough for him at that point. So, after getting all the information he could, Arthur grabbed the now unconscious Sven and left the cave, going straight to the place where the palace was.

Not that far from where they were, and the key to uncover that palace was the same one Sven used to get them to the island.

“What do you think is inside that place?” Signy said.

She was even more respectful towards Arthur. Not by fear after watching the torture, but because she knew how extraordinary he was.

“Honestly, I don’t know. But it will be important or else there wouldn’t be these many hindrances just to enter inside that place.”

There was something inside that place that was about the bloodline. Arthur was the only person who knew the Doom Order was being used by other mages from higher realms, and those were from similar bloodlines to his own, the Monlog Giant.

It was something valuable enough to get the attention from higher realm people, and it would probably be useful to Arthur as well, as the Monlog Giant was the ancestral of whatever family was using the Doom Order.

They walked for some time until finally reaching the part of the shore where the island was. It was 100 meters away from the shore, and 300 meters above the water.

“Signy, Helga, you two know how to fly, right?”

“Yes, we do.”

“Good. I will take Sven with us, and you take Finn.”

Signy and Helga played rock, papers, scissors to see who would have to take Finn along, and Helga lost.

“Your luck is unbelievable.”

Arthur had Sven on his shoulder, while Helga had Finn. They flew towards the place where the palace was supposed to be, and then Arthur activated the strange stone Sven had, which disabled the magical formations around the palace, making it visible to everyone.

It was immense. Less like a palace and more like a city because of its size. The building alone was even bigger than some cities Arthur had seen.

All of it was made of a white stone, which was unfamiliar to Arthur’s eyes. He assumed it was long lost with passaging time, and only those ancient buildings had it.

The palace was shiny, with four towers around it, making it look like a fortress.

What caught the most attention was the entrance to that place. A door that had 25 meters of height. It was truly a place meant for giants.

“This is incredible!” Signy said.

“I can’t believe it was here all this time. Can the people inside of it see us?” Finn said.

“No idea. Let’s go!”

Arthur slowly made his way towards the door and pushed it using his strength. He encountered little trouble to open it, but it was still heavy. Normal mages would have to come up with a special plan just to open the door.

When inside, the first thing they encountered was a hall that had no one in it. Everything was clean, and still had furniture, although these were way bigger than what Arthur was used to.

The floor was also made of the same stone from the exterior, so the entire hall was white, which made the place be too bright.

That hall had three doors. One in the front, facing where they came from, one to the right and one to the left.

Based on what Sven had told, the door in the front was toward the direction of where they needed a sacrifice to open. Not that door itself, but another one in that direction.

He also said that the Doom Order was staying on the right side, waiting for him to bring back the sacrifices.

So, the right side was exactly where Arthur would go. He had two priorities inside that place. The first one was to save his friends from the hands of the Doom Order, and the other one was to explore that location and look for the bloodline treasure, as it was something that caught his attention.