Whispers of the Gods

Chapter 100 Rudomir III (3)

After that, he giggled again and said, "Unfortunately, I didn't present myself as a gift, I brought something else."

The dwarf pulled out a roll of parchment from his crotch like a juggler, and carefully pulled it open. The content on it was the composition of the castle structure.Then he offered it to Rudomir with both hands.

"What is this?" Rudomir frowned, not taking the parchment.

"It's the blueprint of the Lonely Cliff Fort, Your Excellency." Sizmon Janiko replied with narrowed eyes.

"Put it on the table."

The dwarf saluted him politely, walked to the round oak table in small steps, and placed the blueprint on it on tiptoe.

Rudomir and the others huddled around the drawings, carefully studying the gift the Fool gave him.

Granaries, armories, stables, barracks, halls, kitchens, suites, inner castles, small shrines, walkways in the ramparts, gates, murder holes, cells under the King's Tower and wine cellars and treasuries under the pure iron tower...

After reviewing it twice, he said to Sizmon Janiko: "My people have already explored this castle well. Your gift came too late and is useless."

If he had given them the map on the night when the Black Army captured the Lonely Cliff Fort, maybe it could be regarded as providing some help, but now it has been several days before the dwarf handed him the hidden blueprint, which is a waste of himself Time, Rudomir thought.

"Bring him back to the King's Tower. Without my order, don't talk to him about anything he says," he ordered.

"Obey, my lord." The Black Army soldier in charge of guarding directly lifted Sizmon Janiko up, preparing to throw him back into the cell.

"Ouch! Your Excellency, please wait a moment!" The dwarf struggled in the soldier's hands, waving his fists desperately to hit the air. "There is a mystery hidden in this blueprint!"

Hearing this, Rudomir waved his hand and told the soldiers to put the Fool down.

"Go ahead."

Sizmon Janiko straightened his clothes, and said proudly: "This blueprint was passed down to him by the father of the Duke, 'Steel Braid' Pavilard, and it is said that it is Roman 'The Beheader'. Duke Wilke stayed."

"Be straight and don't talk nonsense," Rudomir threatened the dwarf.

"It's coming soon, it's coming soon, my lord! Please hear me out."

The dwarf nimbly got rid of the soldiers who were going to grab him, got under the table and continued: "Although the Lonely Cliff Fortress was not completed when Roman Wilke died, according to the will of the 'beheader', a new building was built under this castle. A secret passage leading to the outside of the Lonely Cliff Fort."

"A secret passage?" Rudomir asked. "If there is a secret passage in this castle, and you know it exists, why didn't you escape from it when we attacked that night?"

"It's a long story, Your Excellency..." the dwarf said coyly.

"He was in Kondrade Welker's room when he was caught," Yarost told Rudomir, "sleeping on the laps of two whores."

"Taking your experience as a show joke, it shouldn't be too bad," Rudomir said.

"My lord, your mouth is really sharp."

The dwarf flattered him, "To tell you the truth, apart from me and the Wilk family, few people know the existence of this secret tunnel. One day, after getting drunk, the Duke revealed the secret of the secret tunnel to me, and even took the secret of the hidden blueprint to me. The place told me that there was invisible ink on the parchment that only showed when it was hot.

Although the Duke treats me kindly, his temperament is changeable.One moment he might be laughing with people, and the next moment he took out his warhammer and smashed people's internal organs... I thought that if one day I was in danger, I would escape from this secret passage, and then go to the port of Ironcrown City. Take a boat to the copper port of Drax, I heard that the dwarves there can also be adults..."

"Aren't you an adult now?" Yaroste asked him. "You have a last name."

"The Duke even gave his horse a surname, he just thought it was fun."

Uncharacteristically, the dwarf replied despondently, "I mean the real lord, the respected lord. But in Vivaria, a dwarf with a surname is still a dwarf, and people call me the jester, not my lord." "

"Wherever you go, a dwarf is a dwarf as long as there are people."

Rudomir put the blueprint on top of the candle, "No one cares whether you have a surname or whether your brain is smart, in fact, when they first saw you, they already knew what you are- —a dwarf."

Under the high temperature, a brown ink mark of different shades slowly appeared on the blueprint of the Lonely Cliff Fort, which was exactly what Sizmon Janiko said about the secret passage.

"Is this secret passage under the wine cellar of the Pure Iron Tower?" Rudomir asked, "Where does it lead?"

If this secret passage leads to a place like Kamumen or the town center, he and his black army may be able to use this to surprise the group of white iron hoofs and break the deadlock.

"There is an exit about five hundred feet east of Lonely Castle," the dwarf replied.

"Five hundred feet? This distance is too short, it is no different from going out through the gate of the castle." Rudomir shook his head, "Take him back."

The soldier seized the dwarf who had got under the table by the foot, and dragged him out, but he took off his boots, escaped from the soldier, and ran about the room like a hare, and at last came to Rudomir. , clutching his thigh tightly.

"I beg you, my lord, I don't want to be locked up with that wizard anymore." Sizmon Janiko was pulled by the soldiers and said eagerly, "I can help you!"

"Why do you want to help me?" Rudomir asked, "I captured your castle and killed your people, but you offered me the blueprint of the secret passage."

"I'm just a showman, my lord, not some loyal Wilk family," said the dwarf. "Now I just want to get out of here and fly away."

"I can't let you go, don't waste your words. Take him back." Rudomir refused.

"My lord! Please have mercy!" The dwarf refused to leave, his face flushed red. "I, I know where Madam Nagelina is! She's in the Sleeping Hunter Tavern!"

"Nagelina Jagoron?" Rudomir raised his hand to make the soldiers stop first, "Isn't she dead?"

"She's still alive, I saw it with my own eyes." The dwarf shook his head and said, "My lord duke said she fell from her horse and fell to her death, but Mrs. Nagelina is still alive. The secret passage of the castle leads to the Sleeping Hunter Tavern, and she is in There."

"People can only believe half of what they say, why should I believe you?" Rudomir asked.

(End of this chapter)