Vlad, his spy who had led them there, his two generals and their ten companions all got into the secret passageway, while the other soldiers remained at the throne room, gathering as many spoils as they could find.
Vald walked behind the spy, who walked ahead of them, looking around with his fiery torch. He was new to this place, as was the rest of them. It was now it occurred to him that this might have been a wrong decision. It might be a trap designed to keep them stranded there, as far fetched as it felt. But it mattered little to him, he wanted to meet the King of this land, he wanted to show him a piece of his mind. Soon, the downward spiralling staircase came to an end, and a linear path was set before them. At this point, they didn't know how deep they had gotten into the ground, as the downward stairs they had taken seemed too long for just descending beneath a wall of sixty feet. It was a lot deeper. Seeing the path
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