ToCF

Chapter 321-325

Cale put down the gulping Cat Knight Sir Rex from his arms and started to walk.

Tap.
Cale walked down the dark entrance into the underground with only the sound of his steps being heard around him.

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Tap. Tap. Tap.
This dark path had torches at equidistant intervals. There were some water drops falling from the ceiling that looked as rough as a cave.

Only the sound of the water drops filled this area.

There was a long straight path as soon as they arrived at the bottom of the stairs. It was wide enough for a carriage to travel through.

'It really was a secret passage.'

Choi Han was in the front of the group looking around.
He started to frown.

He could smell the scent of death.

Corpses.
It was a terrible smell that he wished he did not know. It was the smell that he had smelled too many times in the Forest of Darkness and in Harris Village.

His gaze started to turn cold.

– ...Human, this smell-

Raon stopped before telling Cale what it was. He tightly clenched his chubby front paws while his round face started to frown.

The front paws of the Cat that was walking down the passage were shaking.

He was used to this smell.
The same thing he smelled a long time ago when he had left his siblings without even saying goodbye in fear that he might be caught overwhelmed him now fifteen years later.

He was barely able to walk.

– Human! There are people up front!

Cale stopped walking after hearing Raon's warning.

Two knights and one alchemist.

There were two knights standing guard on either side of the wide passage. The alchemist was next to one of the knights reading a document.

Tap.

Cale tapped on Choi Han's shoulder.
Choi Han started to walk without responding back.

'It's fine if we catch the hunters, however, we will be quickly be found if we touch anybody within the Alchemists' Bell Tower.

That is why we will not touch anybody and instead quietly go in and come back out.

That is the only way to successfully save the footage and give us time to spread it to the citizens of the Empire.'

Choi Han started to think as he recalled what Cale had said to him.

'He chooses to take such a difficult path.'

Someone would eventually realize that they had infiltrated the tower, but wouldn't they work faster and more efficiently if they just knocked everyone unconscious?

However, Choi Han could only move seriously as he was not making that decision.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-
A strand of breeze blew by.

"Wow, the outside air really is warmer now that it is springtime."

The knight holding the spear commented while the alchemist reading the document started to grumble.

"I'm just thankful its Spring. Do you know how hard it was in the Winter? All that cold air coming in from the outside, sigh."

Cale walked past the knights and the alchemists quite leisurely while making sure to remember their faces.