The Man’s Decree

“This is strange…” Jagoan furrowed his brows.

“Why did Mr. Sanders give us a Wordless Tome? He didn’t let us know how…” Melanie was perplexed.

“I’m sure he has reasons for giving me this book. If he didn’t tell me how I should decrypt it, then he must have thought I have my ways of reading it.”

Jagoan’s admiration for Arthur was endless, not just because he helped him. But because he felt that Arthur was a knowledgeable person who knew and understood everything under the stars.

“Jagoan, do you think you need to use your blood to connect to Wordless Tome to decrypt it?” Jagoan questioned then.

Hearing her words, Jagoan quickly bit his finger and smeared a few drops of blood on Wordless Tome.

As expected, the book absorbed Jagoan’s blood instantly before it emitted a glow.

A drawing slowly became apparent on the first page of Wordless Tome. Multiple scarlet-colored blood stripes appeared, revealing a map on it.

book’s changes. “Yay! Finally. Now I

to look at the map first, though. He flipped to

didn’t react to his blood

noticing how Wordless Tome was unresponsive. They thought they had found the correct way to unlock the book’s contents. Yet, only one page

look at the map. Maybe the

details on the first page. Then, they realized the map was nothing like

rest was engrossed in their thinking, Jagoan’s eyes lit up.

shouted happily, scaring

continued, gesturing at the map, “Look here. This map is the map of this secret realm we are in now. See this mountain, this

was going on about, though, for they had

them too. He wouldn’t have realized this was the map of the

then there’s no symbol or whatsoever on this map. What’s the point of having