before he was crowned king

The two walked down against the wall, and the cold that was completely different from the current season hit their faces.

The fire in the palm of his hand was very faint.Erics stood behind and couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly. He could only follow the young man's footsteps and move forward slowly.

It's dark and silent here, if you're trapped here alone, it won't be long before you can destroy a person's will to escape.

The fire light swayed slightly, and Erics quickly settled down, and his eyes fell on Sean's short golden hair inadvertently, such a brilliant color looked extraordinarily warm and dazzling in the dark.

Erics felt strange. In fact, he felt that he was more suitable to take on the task of leading the way than Sean.

However, the other party's tough tone did not allow him to raise objections at all, as if such an arrangement had long been used to it.

There are only the rhythmic footsteps of the two people in my ears. They have been walking for a while, but the spiral staircase has not come to an end. Alex looked back, and the light that originally exited was no longer visible. Yes, his back is absolutely pitch black.

"Xion." Alex couldn't help calling out.

In fact, he regretted it as soon as he opened his mouth, because he had nothing to say to Sean, and he seemed to be teasing the other party by doing so.

It's kind of weird.He himself didn't know why he called Sean just now.

"Well, I'm here." The deep voice came clearly.

Erics was stunned for a moment, unexpectedly waiting for a definite answer.

It was undeniable that this answer made him feel a lot more at ease.

In a trance, he had an illusion, as if at this moment, there were only him and Sean in the whole world.

They are so lonely sneaking in the dark, the only warmth comes from each other's body temperature.

After finally walking the last step, Sean stopped on the flat ground.He relies on the firelight to observe the intersection in front of him. The structure here is much more complicated than he imagined, like an underground labyrinth, facing the passages leading to three different directions. Sean doesn't know what is waiting for them ahead. what is it.

"How could there be such a place?" Alex was a little shocked.Baron Tolland is just a small nobleman, how could there be such a place hidden under his castle.

"I don't know." Sean shook his head.

"Why, why is the ground so wet?" Erics accidentally stepped into the stagnant water, and his brows frowned involuntarily.

"It should have rained a few days ago, but the rainwater couldn't drain out, and it stagnated here." Shine said.

He approached the intersection, holding Alex's wrist to light the road ahead.

Hundreds of slender iron pillars were neatly arranged in two rows, and they divided the already somewhat narrow space into three parts.

"This is a prison." Sean said softly. He walked towards the swaying and creaking iron gate not far away, and wiped it casually on the railing, and his fingers were stained with rusty blood.

Castles belong to the private domain of nobles.Many nobles will indeed set up a private prison to detain servants who have done wrong things, or people who commit crimes like thieves.But it was the first time for Sean to see such a huge private prison. He roughly estimated that the space here could hold at least a thousand people.

This is very abnormal, there is no use for such a large prison.According to Sean's knowledge, the folk customs here are quite simple.And the low-level citizens living in Nexco Village are even more famous for being docile and law-abiding.You must know that they are the group of people who choose to give up their freedom and succumb to a stable life.It is hard to imagine that this group of people who are slaughtered like lambs can do anything illegal and disciplined.

So this dungeon exists here, who is it used to imprison?

Was it full before they arrived?

When the explosion came that day, did all the people detained here escape?

"They won't all be dead..." Erics also thought of the problem, and he couldn't continue. He didn't dare to imagine such a scene, when the explosion sounded that day, when the whole castle had no warning The ground collapsed, and for those detainees in the prison, they should have felt the same despair as the sky had fallen.

"They escaped." Sean slowly pushed open the iron door in front of him, and pulled Erics in. "No, maybe it would be more accurate to say that someone saved them."

"Saved them?" Alex said. "You mean someone broke the prison?"

"This is obvious. All kinds of traces indicate that many people were originally detained here. They were not in good health, and most of them were tortured." Sean analyzed calmly, trying to reconstruct what happened at that time in his mind. Everything, "However, as far as we are now, the door of almost every cell is open, and there is not even a corpse on the ground."

"Is that so?" Alex breathed a sigh of relief, with a happy smile on his face, "Great."

Shane glanced at each other.

Next, with great luck, Sean found a dry torch on a wall.

The torch was lit and emitted a bright light, and Erics lighting work was over.

Sean held the torch in his hand, turned around and looked at Alex, "You wait for me here, and I will go on."

"why--"

"Eryx, listen to me." Sean interrupted the other party's question with a serious voice, "I suspect that Baron Toland is conducting an improper trade, and he is likely to be selling the prisoners held here. "

"You're saying he's using prisoners as a commodity...that's against the law! He has no such right."

"What if it's a sub-orc?" Sean asked, "Trafficking sub-orcs is allowed."

"They're all sub-orcs? Where did he get so many sub-beasts..." Erics was stunned when he said this, "Nexco villagers?"

"But——they are all low-level citizens, and they are also the people of Saint Via." Alex's expression became more and more gloomy, "He is really crazy."

"In the eyes of most people, low-level citizens are not compatriots, they are just sub-orcs." Sean said softly, he knew how cruelly the crowd would inadvertently exclude people who were different from himself.

"This is wrong." Alex shook his head, his voice was very soft, "I can't accept such a thing, even the sub-orcs should not deprive each other of their human rights, I always think that everyone should get along in an equal way .”

Sean was not surprised by Alex's answer, which was in line with the other party's character of yearning for light.The conflict between humans and sub-orcs has been going on for a long time. If these words are heard by anyone else, I am afraid they will feel too hypocritical.

But Sean knew that Erics was so pure and longing in his heart. In the eyes of the other party, the world was far from being completely corrupt, and there were still many possibilities for improvement.

"You're right." Sean agreed with Erics' point of view, and did not break the hopeful illusion of the other party. "So what happened here must be known to others."

Alex nodded.

"I'm going to the front now to search for more clues. You stay here to observe the situation outside. If you find anything wrong with the whole building, you call my name."

"it is good."

"Then evacuate directly by myself, and write a letter back to the station to tell His Highness Mars the truth about what happened here."

"then you--"

"I can ensure my own safety, and this action is only to share the risk, understand?"

"I understand."

"It's quite obedient." Sean patted Alex on the shoulder, turned around and walked deep into the passage with the torch in hand, the further he went, the height of the passage became shorter and shorter, and Sean had to lower himself Avoid hitting the hard rock wall with your head.

"He's still looking at you from behind, like a puppy."

Sean looked back, and Herrell's voice came into his ears, but he didn't show up.

"It's impossible for him to see me. The distance between me and him is three hundred feet, which is beyond his range of vision." Sean replied calmly.

"Why don't you let him follow? He is a powerful magician anyway, and he is better than you alone."

"He's just a burden." Sean stopped walking, and there was a mountain of hair of various colors not far in front, "Do you think he can accept this? I don't have time to take care of his emotions all the way."

Herrell was silent for a while, then suddenly let out a chuckle, "He can't be your illegitimate child, right?"

"Helaire."

"It's your behavior that violates your usual style of doing things." Herrell said unceremoniously, "If something happens, you don't have a strategy to get out of the whole body. You can only die."

"No, I won't die." Sean responded flatly.

"what?"

"You won't let me die until the contract is completed." Sean said firmly, "Otherwise, according to Duke Oscar's character, I will die on the day he returns."

There was a dead silence around Sean again.

It wasn't until a long time later that he heard Herrell's voice gnashing his teeth again, "Despicable human beings, their minds are full of dirty ideas designed to be used."

"Isn't that the relationship between us?" Sean was not angry either, the fire shone on the wall on the left, which was covered with twisted and dense scratches.These traces are enough to reflect how painful the people locked up here are.

Herrell let out a cold snort and stopped talking.

"I found it." Finally Sean found what he was looking for - the magic surveillance collars worn by low-level citizens, and they filled the last few cells in huge numbers.

Sean took out a collar from the gap in the railing. Unexpectedly, the collar was not damaged in any way. It was removed from the necks of the sub-orcs in the correct way.

There was a booming sound on Sean's head. He raised his hand and touched the soil layer above his head. It seemed that water was slowly seeping down.

Sean frowned, put on the magic collar and chose to turn back without any hesitation.

it's raining outside.

Summer showers are heavy and urgent, which is nothing more than normal.

But now, this is the last situation Sean wants to see.

The castle was built on a hill, and after experiencing the devastation of the explosion, it was as fragile as a wobbly piece of paper. Sean didn't know if he could still withstand the baptism of the heavy rain.

The ground began to shake slightly.