Child Of Darkness

When Varian opened the door, he and the others found themselves staring at nine doors. These arched doors were still silver, but a shade darker.

Perhaps it was a sign that they had strayed off the right path.

Varian sighed under his breath.  'Wrong choice.'

Despite having the best chance at the first attempt, he picked one of the two wrong doors.

Maria, Bella and Sohan took out a few treasures to work something out.

Varian let them and did his own thing. He began scanning the doors, with his individual powers and then through his fused powers.

But his perception—which was like a sensitive net—just disappeared when it touched the doors.

It was blank.

The heirs tried out their treasures and picked the door most likely to be right.

Click!

When the door swung open, they were greeted with twenty-seven doors, still silver, but now visibly darker.

"Ugh!" Varian clenched his jaw and grimaced.