Chapter 109: The Cryptic Message

The coded message echoed through the tunnels, its meaning clear to those who knew how to decipher it. I froze, my heart pounding in my chest.

“Did you hear that?” Gareth whispered, his eyes wide with fear. “It’s the old Morse code we used for secret messages. They’re trying to tell us something.”

“I know,” I replied, my voice steady but my mind racing. The message was unmistakable—**Find the place where the sun sets on the iron roots.**

It was a phrase I hadn’t heard in years, not since my father was still alive. It was one of his cryptic warnings, something he had told me when I was just a child.

He had always been paranoid, seeing enemies in every shadow. But now, it seemed like he might have been right all along.

Matthias stepped closer, his face tense with concern. “What does it mean, Sera? Do you know where they’re talking about?”

I nodded slowly, the pieces falling into place. “I think I do. There’s an old iron mine on the western edge of Silverwood.

It was abandoned years a