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with the mask greeted him.
    »Do we know each other?« Peter replied.
    »Oh, yes, Peter, we do! We just lost track of each other, for quite a long time. They hid you well from me. But the light led you back to me.«
    Peter struggled to swallow down his fear and scanned the floor of the hall in search of the access to the sewage tunnel that Kelly had mentioned.
    »Are you Seth?« he asked to gain time.
    »Yes, Peter, I am. You have a lot of questions.« He turned towards the other monks and made an imperious gesture with his arm. And, as if by command, they filed out of the hall. Peter was left behind, alone with the man. Seth, in all probability.
    »Peter, I want to show you something. Come here.«
    Seth waved Peter over to the stone where he was standing. Reluctantly and hesitantly, Peter moved forward.
    Do it! Do it now. They will soon be back.
    »What about Maria?« he asked.
    »She is alive. Unfortunately, she still has the relic. Whether she survives depends on you, Peter. You know that I need to have this relic, don’t you?«
    »How many people have you already killed to get it?«
    »Death, Peter, means nothing in the face of the light. But come, come here!« Seth signaled him to come closer and pointed at the Sigillum Dei. »What would you say if I promised you absolute power? Really and truly absolute power.«
    »I would think that you are insane. Well, actually I think this already.«
    »You need to open your mind, Peter. You need to recognize that you have lived your life up to now in a locked prison cell. But I can open it for you. Look!«
    He placed a small golden nugget the size of a hazelnut in the center of the occult seal.
    »Do you know what this is? Pure gold. One hundred percent pure gold. Gold with a purity that you cannot find in nature.«
    »Okay, and now you are probably going to tell me that you have cracked the secret of metal conversion.«
    »The question is: will you walk this path with us and become a Bearer of the Light?«
    »Or?«
    Seth shrugged indifferently and turned away. »Or do you want to die here?«
    It was at this moment that Peter spotted a gap in the floor next to the stone. A circular gap. In the center of the circle, a rusty metal ring was flush-mounted into the stone.
    Now! Now or never.
    Seth turned back to him.
    »Did you understand what I said? The choice is yours. Absolute power or dolorous death.«
    Peter approached Seth and looked into his strangely dull eyes.
    »I heard you loud and clear,« he said and hit him.
    He aimed at the larynx and put his entire body weight into the punch. Seth collapsed to the floor, wheezing and holding his throat. Peter went for an encore, delivering two hard liver punches. Unable to scream and gasping for breath, Seth was squirming on the floor.
    Peter did not waste another second. He stormed back into the basement, tore the latch from the door leading into Kelly’s cell, and yanked the frightened maniac out of his corner.
    »Come on, Kelly, we don’t have much time.«
    »Kill me, Peter! Kill me here! Kill me now!«
    »Later. Right now you come with me. And be as quiet as a mouse or they will come and get you again.«
    Kelly was naked, and Peter dragged him violently upstairs into the hall where Seth was still wheezing and squirming on the floor.
    Kelly was horrified and trembling as he stared at the man in the white monk’s cowl.
    »Nonuci dasontif Babaje od cahi…«
    Peter pressed his hand over Kelly’s mouth. »Be quiet!« he hissed at Kelly. »Help me!«
    He grabbed the rusty handle of the ancient sewer cover that he had detected and pulled with all his might. The stone did not budge, not even a fraction of an inch. He groaned and drew himself up to his full height. He saw that Seth was struggling to sit up. Kelly was in complete panic, cringing in a corner, whimpering.
    Peter gave it another try. Again to no avail. Then he had an idea. He ran back into the cell, grabbed the bucket that was filled with Kelly’s urine and, when he