Chapter 16
"You have found the Rainbow Elixir of the heavens and saved my soul. Here is my gift to you". Lachdannan held his hands in the air. A white mist emerged flaring from his hands and fell on the five warriors.
"I have given you most my strength and magic. I will have little use for it on the journey I am about to take. If there is anything I can do beyond the grave to help you, I will find it. Now farewell" Lachdannan said drinking the elixir. He exploded in a flash of white. His armour fell to the ground. The warriors felt stronger and they had more mana.
"Farewell Lachdannan" Derek whispered looking up. Poor Derek another friend lost to the evils of this forsaken place. Adrianna felt her anger boil within her. Why did he have to suffer so much? Now the warriors had to finish off the rest of the third floor of Hell. Adrianna used her mana to open a portal to town. The warriors headed through to town.
"Cain I have something I think you should see", Adrianna said as she walked up to Cain. Jayalm and Lothar went to visit Alyssia and Daniel went on ahead and put his armour in Derek's shop. Now Derek and Adrianna stood in front of Cain as he picked up the staff and held it carefully in his hands. He seemed to recognize the staff and a look of great anger seemed to cross his face as he turned to them.
"It is as I feared. It belongs to the Archbishop Lazarus. It is my belief that it was Lazarus himself who kidnapped Albrecht and has sought to sacrifice him to his dark masters. Witnesses from the group lead by Lazarus saw him run into the deepest bowels of the Labyrinth. Curse me for a fool! I should have detected his veiled treachery then. Now you must go and save the Prince from the sacrificial blade of this demented fiend". Cain must have also sensed the evil shrouding this staff. Would they get to the prince in time to save him from Lazarus? Derek ran over to his shop and told Daniel of the events and Adrianna visited Alyssia to deliver Cain's message to Jayalm and Lothar.
"How is your quest? Have you found the Messiahs yet?" Alyssia asked.
"No not yet but we will find them. Are they within the labyrinth?" Jayalm asked.
"Yes but they are not disguised as demons. You must look inside yourselves and they shall find their way to you". Alyssia said. Adrianna did not know what to make of this information. How could a simple person like her possibly bring forth the Messiahs? It was now twilight as Lothar, Jayalm and Adrianna walked back into town. Sleep beckoned to the warriors. Adrianna walked up to her room yawning as she ascended the stairs. She opened the door to her room. Dressed in her nightclothes, which basically consisted off a short white thin-sleeved dress that reached half way down her thighs. She climbed into bed and pulled the covers up to her chin and turned onto her side where she fell into a dreamless world.
"What! What did you say Lothar?" Adrianna asked hysterically the next morning. She and Lothar were sitting in the tavern. Lothar wore a mask of fearful thought.
"I said I had a dream about the beast you described. It was really nerve-racking. He was so evil, powerful", he repeated. Adrianna couldn't believe this. Lothar had a dream about the horrible Beast she had dreamed up. Was it possible that her dream was not a dream after all?
"Do you think it's...? She broke off as Lothar took over.
"Diablo?" he asked. Adrianna nodded. "Yes it very well could be. In any case we should keep our eyes open for this creature". Lothar said worriedly. The others joined them and Lothar told them his dream. Derek looked worriedly from Lothar to Adrianna.
"Do you think that your dreams are visions?" he asked. Adrianna and Lothar nodded. Daniel and Jayalm looked around the group uneasily.
"Well we'll keep a lookout. If anyone sees a beast with that description we should try to escape," Derek suggested. The others nodded. Everyone got up and walked out of the tavern. They headed for Hell yet again, a deep feeling of uneasiness settling in her stomach. Today they would try and save the prince from death.