Stronghold In The Apocalypse

Chapter 39: I'm Not Lying!

Caleb is looking at Leo's back with complex gazed as he realized that his person is truly mysterious because while he was following him from behind. When they passed by a massive clock earlier, he realized in shocked that not even an hour passed since his fight with the mutated monster from when he woke up.

That was the reason why he was looking at Leo with amazed along with a complicated look as he realized how this young man is truly amazing and mysterious because when he regained consciousness he just thought that a few days have already passed since his last battle!

"It means that whatever medicine or thing Leo gave me while I was out immediately mended all of my injuries leaving me with only scars and its effects probably occurred within only a few minutes or maybe even lower!" Caleb thought in astonishment while he followed from behind Leo.

"Just who truly is he? There's no such medical technology that far beyond today! From my knowledge, even our country and the others didn't have that kind of technology that can heal someone from the brink of death! I really wonder what used on me. Just how powerful is the power behind him for them to have that kind of medicinal technology?" questions upon questions popped up in his mind.

The two were silent as they just continued walking in silence as Leo matched his pace with Caleb so that he won't have a hard time catching up.

Suddenly, a sudden realisation hit Caleb's head as he noticed that the path they are going is where the old treasure vault of the royal family but he didn't say anything as he just followed behind as he already figured out that they probably came here looking for something, he just didn't expect that they actually came for that vault.

Leo lead the way towards where Alex is located at based from the map and upon arriving there, what Leo saw was a massive courtyard surrounded by different kind of vegetations like flowers, trees and many more, there's even a table set with chairs probably for relaxation on the side.

Leo was amazed on sometimes how leisurely is a royalty's life here in the palace before. After that Leo looked over where Alex was standing and walked over to him and said "So, where is it?"

Alex pointed towards the ground and said "Just below us sir"

Leo then looked at the ground where their standing at and looked up and said "So, how do we get in then? "

Alex didn't say anything and pressed his finger at the wall beside him and his finger sunk slowly inside as he pressed something like a button on the wall and after that the ground shook a bit and Leo heard something near him and he saw that a section of the ground is slowly opening up, revealing a staircase leading below.

"As I thought, they really came for this" Caleb smiled as he thought.

"Now that...is awesome" Leo stared at dark staircase leading below in amazement as he only saw a scene of mechanism like this before on a movie.

Leo then walked towards it and immediately saw what looks like light switch. He walked a few steps on the staircase and flipped the switch up as lights appeared illuminating the once dark staircase.

He finally saw what it looks like inside, the stairs leading downwards is surrounded by walls on both sides with lightsource fixed on the walls to light up the way.

Leo then smiled as he started walking down followed by Caleb and lastly Alex who gave a look around the surroundings before following down.

They didn't even bother leaving someone behind to keep a lookout and just the entrance wide open for anyone to come inside. They probably thought that no one would stumble inside this, now desolate palace and even if there was, Leo wouldn't mind giving them hell if they try to pick a fight with them.

As the group of three silently walked deeper through the staircase. Leo was amazed to discover that this place is truly well maintained from the many decades that has passed from when this place was built.

"It seems people have come here recently" Leo said as he noticed that the place is almost spotless clean, actually Leo had expected an underground place like this to be dusty.

Suddenly, Leo heard a strange sound from behind him and he looked back he saw Caleb suppressing his laughter which made him raised an eyebrow and asked strangely "What are you laughing at? Now that I think about it, you're the Queen's personal knight so you must have known this place already, so what's behind this?" Leo asked him as they finally reached the end of the stairs and what greeted them was a huge metallic door that looks like it was made with bronze. The doors height reaches around nine meters with a width of more or less two meters.

"Well, it's better if you go see it for yourself" Caleb smiled at him.

Leo felt like he was hiding something but he didn't pry further "Alex, can you go open it?"

"Yes sir" Alex said confident as he went near the door and stood in front of it.

Leo looked on with anticipation of what kind of treasures await inside him and he suddenly saw Alex clenching his fist as a bad feeling suddenly aroused in his heart and hastily said "Wait! Do-"

BAM~!

Alex punched the door so hard that it immediately cave in before it was sent flying inside for a good five meters.

Leo's hand was stuck in mid air and then face palmed and he bitterly said "I didn't tell you to bashed it open like that"

"Apologies Sir. You only said that I should open it and I did"

Leo's jaws dropped when he heard him and just shook his head with a sigh before proceeding inside with Alex following behind but behind them, they didn't noticed that shock looked on Caleb as he gazed at the now destroyed entrance with jaws dropped in shocked and he said with a bitter chuckle "What the heck...just happened just now?" and he felt like there was a crow flying above his head, mocking him.

"What the heck are these!?" Leo's shout filled with indignation made him snapped out of his dazed as he started to laugh before he slowly walked inside.

What he saw inside was rectangular box crates upon box crates stack on top of each other, they are two meters in length and less than a meter in width and then he saw Leo, angrily opening crates while murmuring in anger with Alex is just opening every single crate with ease, not even bothered what's inside.

Caleb gave a laughed as he already know what's inside this treasure vault, no...more like an antique vault.

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"Dammit! I was expecting golds, jewelries, gems and the like! But these are f*cking relics!" Leo yelled as he picked up a M1 Garand.

Leo and the rest opened up all of the 100 crates inside and inside of all of them are all relics of the past, WWII firearms.

The collected 30 pieces of M1 Garand, 10 STEN SMG, 3 Bren Infantry LMG, 200 Colt 1911, 10 VickersBerthier, 5 Winchester Model 1894 and 10 Lee Enfield with scopes but around 30 crates are are large ammunition boxes amounting to five thousand rounds for every type of firearms stored inside the crates.

"Hays, good thing all of them are in good condition though, it seems you people still cares for these kind of stuffs huh?" Leo gazed STEN SMG on his hand then turned at Caleb smiling.

"Of course, among the other storages, this one actually contains this still working firearms" Caleb nodded.

"Wait, there are also others like this!?" Leo said startled.

"Ahh? Ah yes, one contains WWII vehicles like armored tanks, unmanned demolition vehicles, artillery tractors, jeeps and armored cars. Of course some of them are already not working and they only numbered from one to three for every type of vehicle and other is a storage for ammunitions, probably around 20 million to 30 million rounds of every caliber" Caleb said rubbing his chin, trying to refresh his memory. He doesn't really care now, if he's giving valuable information about the country's military especially the last storage he mentioned as that is one of the storage units where they store ammunitions for future use like going to war.

"Are those two stored here?" Leo asked with expectation, right now he doesn't really care about treasures now, he just want working firearms so that he won't waste his money buying from the system.

"No, they are stored in an island where there's an active military base erected" Caleb replied.

"You're a knight but you really know a lot of about somethings from the military" Leo looked at him with interest.

"Eh? You didn't see my badge hanging on my suit when you found me? It probably got destroyed if you didn't see it. I'm also a three-star general in the army" Caleb proudly said, looking at him.

"Yeah, right" Leo didn't believe him as he shrugged his shoulders before he started walking back up in the surface.

"No, I'm really a general. I'm not lying" Caleb said he caught up to them.

"Shut up old man" Leo angrily said.

"I'm a knight but also an army general"

"Old man? Look at me...shut..the..fuck..up" Leo turned back to him as he every word very clearly for Caleb to hear before he continued moving up.

"But-"

"Shut it"

"But I'm really a general. Jeez, young people this days" Caleb said in a low voice, not trying to convince Leo anymore, not really bothered anymore if Leo believes him or nor.