24 Looking For the Thief

Dro together with NightShade stepped into the prison. There was no notification that they entered a dungeon, Dro and Nightshade were in the room that head jailer had died in. Looking around Dro saw a corpse of the head jailer, unlike normal monsters who disappeared after death and looting, the boss was still there. Further scouring the room, Dro saw that the cells were open, nothing had changed since they left this prison.

Dro and Nightingale continued, together they headed deeper into the prison. They were both walking to the cells. On the way there, they didn't encounter any monsters, the only thing moving they saw was each other and flickering light from the torches.

NightShade marvelled at the surroundings, now that her life was not in danger, she was more relaxed walking these halls. Now that it was not dangerous she examined every single detail of this prison. Dro seeing her looking around like a child said nothing he just smiled lightly. He thought that this was the way an RPG should be played, he thought that if this wasn't a death game this would be the best game on the market.

Walking deeper and deeper they finally heard a sound, it was the sound of singing, the voice was low and deep and from this, they knew it belonged to a man, getting closer the singing grew clearer.

"Sitiiiing on a barrel and drinking, piles of golds at my side is shrinkiiiiiiing" The voice was not very nice to listen to, its sounds would make one eardrums bleed.

NightShade covered her ears as she spoke with a pained expression, "What is this awful singing?"

Dro nodded his head he dashed towards the distance finally seeing the man that was singing with such a terrible voice. When the man saw that a person was standing before him, he shut his mouth as he looked at the youth in front.

Seeing the man up close, he was a thin man, he was so thin that bones were visible, his face was dirty he was also human and the stench coming from this man was worse than that of a homeless man. Everything about this man called poverty.

When NightShade came up to the cell of the man, she yelled out, "What is this stench!"

She cast her gaze at the man and she furrowed her brows, "This is the man? He knows Zandar tunnels?"

Dro shook his head, "I don't know, but let's ask him."

Facing the man the youth asked, "Are you the thief, that knows how to access Zandar's tunnels?"

"What's it to you?" The man was displeased when Dro talked to him, thinking he was one of the guards.

"I need your help accessing Zandar, if you help us I will set you free"

The man was shocked by these words, his eyes widened but he soon returned to normal, "What are you trying to pull?"

"What do you mean?" Dro asked with confusion, not understanding the man's meaning

The man frowned and looked at Dro, after looking at him he nodded his head, "You are no a jailer are you?"

Dor shook his head and answered in an attempt to reassure the man, "Don't worry, we are not. If anything we were prisoners here, and we killed the head jailer."

This got the man's attention, he nodded his head seriously, "Alright, if you let me go, I will tell you how to access the tunnels, but I won't guide you through them, at most I can give you a map."

"How do we set you free?" Dro inquired, while the girl tried to suppress the stench.

"Head jailer should have a key on him."

NightShadow spoke as she ran away, "I will go take it," After she was a distance away, she took a deep breath of fresh air.

"So what are you here for?"

He laughed lightly, "I once broke in, you see I wanted to wipe the treasury clean, but I was caught on my escape."

In a moment she returned with the keys, Dro took it and unlocked his cell, the man smiled and spoke, "Now for my part," He approached a wall took a rock and began scribbling on the wall as he explained.

"First you will have to enter the city, then head to the slums, there you will find a canal take it. And keep moving until you arrive a gate, by the gate the fourth tile from the left and fifth from the top is a pressure plate. This plate opens the gate. From there just keep moving forward, you will finally reach a ladder take this ladder and you will arrive at the castle. On the wall here is the map of the castle itself, I have marked all the locations, well that's it from me, see you later friends."

The man walked out of the cell with his stench following after the man.

NightShade yelled out, "Stop right there before you depart let me ask you one thing, how do you know the plans of the castle so wells, up to the point where you are able to pinpoint the location of every person living the castle."

Dro nodded his head as he now realised this.

The man stopped in his tracks turned around, "I just did my research when I planned to rob the castle of everything."

He asked of NightShade, "Is that all? Can I leave now?"

She nodded her head, to this the man smiled widely and bowed, "Mademoiselle thank you, now I will depart."

Before Dro could say anything more one more notification appeared, this notification informed them of a black quest, a quest that shapes the game world.

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Dro and NightShade looked at the back of the man, two of the simultaneously spoken,

"Release him," Dro spoke.

"Kill Him," NightShade spoke.

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