The Return of the War Legate

Chapter 612

Nadine pointed upstairs, and Adrian brought her with him to the old man’s study without a second thought

When he opened the door and shone his flashlight inside, he suddenly saw a man sitting before the desk. This man’s presence was enough to cause Nadine’s scalp to tingle and her legs to tremble once more.

Adrian held her by the waist and stood outside the door as he looked at the man.

The man was wearing a coat, with his elbows against the desk and his palms against his head. The man had completely decomposed, leaving behind a layer of darkened skin that had freckles all over it.

His nails were long and blackish-purple in color.

“Grandfather?” Nadine Immediately said when she took a good look

“This is your grandfather?” Adrian asked

Nadine nodded profusely as she replied, “That’s him, but isn’t he buried? I was there when they buried his coffin. What’s he doing here?”

She was stunned, wondering how a man who should have been buried was doing in his own study as a corpse.

“What’s going on here? Nadine thought.

Adrian sald, “This probably has something to du with Chase. He tricked your entire family.”

Nadine was at a loss for words. She walked over and got down on her knees before her grandfather to pay her respects. After that, she got up and hid behind Adrian once more.

After that, Adrian entered the study, where all kinds of books lined the shelves. He randomly picked one out and flipped through its pages He continued in this way until he had read through most of the books.

After around five minutes later, he turned around and took a look at the corpse. “Your grandfather studied trapdoors and their mechanisms. There are a lot of books about them here.”

Adrian smiled after saying this, causing Nadine to look at him in confusion.

“Why are you smiling? What does that even mean?”

Adrian then looked at a pen that was on the table. He then walked over and lifted it up before placing it on the bookshelf, all while Nadine lucked on in confusion.

As she wondered what he was doing, she suddenly saw the pen falling deeper into an entrapment, causing the whole bookshelf to tremble. What followed was the whirring of some gears, and one of the shelves to the right opened up at a forty five degree angle.

Behind it was a secret room

Nadine’s mouth hung open as she looked at all of this in a daze. “Adrian, what just happened?”

Adrian senlied, “It’s a secret door that can only be opened with that pen’s weight. Your grandfather was an absolute genius! He would’ve becoine a master of traps if his skills were used at Wyvern Peak. He’d be the equivalent of a hundred thousand men! “It’s a pity your uncle was oblivious about all this, which is why he failed to find this secret room this whole time.”

Nadine was extremely shocked when she heard this.

Adrian walked toward the secret room that had a wall for a door. There was a ropapa ss of sorts with some letters inscribed on them and pictures of twelve animals. There were also twelve needles on the compass,

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“Do you know how to solve this?” Nadine looked up at Adrian and asked, who merely smiled in response.

“Knowledge is power.”

After that, Adrian turned the needles and pointed each and every one of them in a particular direction. Immediately after, a click” sound was heard and the wall shifted inwards before sliding open!