Chapter 61: Ashes Rekindle Hope
Izzy didn't bother with the two-headed ogre, and Lanteriso slaughtered him, fulfilling Izzy's promise that he wouldn't kill him.
Walked over to a stone and sat on it, which Izzy remembered he had sat on years ago.
His heart was dead at this time, busy but at a loss.
If you can't change anything, then what's the point of working so hard.
His right hand began to ache again, but the pain in his body could not hide the despair in his heart, and Izzy was still in a daze, he did not want to give up, trying to find the last glimmer of hope in his heart.
A commotion from behind caught Izzy's attention, and looking back, Lantreso had released an orc slave.
The orc slave knelt down directly to Lanteriso, tears streaming down his face, tears of gratitude.
Rantreso picked him up, asked him if he could hunt, handed him a knife, and let him go.
Although there will be a cruel fate waiting for him in the future, at least it will not be cruel enough to be worse than becoming a slave.
Rantreso wittily let go of the slaves one by one, and he was also afraid that these tough gladiators would rush up and directly snatch him and Izzy's supplies, after all, it was necessary to defend people.
Izzy watched the orcs express their gratitude to Rantreso one by one, tears of happiness flowing down his face, it was so touching.
In his heart, the ashes of hope began to rekindle, like a fire that burned out all the despair in his heart.
Your own efforts are not meaningless.
Those forgotten memories gradually became clearer, and Kargas had the same expression back then, expressing his gratitude to Izzy.
Izzy's fighting spirit was ignited, if he could save Kargas once, he would save him a second time.
Thinking about it, Izzy suddenly realized that the Broken Hand Clan was more suitable for his rescue plan than the Warsong Clan.
He didn't know anything about the Warsong Clan, and the Broken Hand Clan, he had at least seen Kargas, and the Broken Hand Clan was definitely the orc clan that was the least willing to be a slave anymore.
If Izzy can get the Broken Hand Clan to join the resistance force in his plan, it will undoubtedly be more reliable than the Warsong Clan, and the soldiers will be more expensive than the Broken Hand Clan, and with the help of the Broken Hand Clan's Hundred Battle Warriors, it will be easier to complete his plan.
In the canon of the game, the ogres of Castle Hammer promised slave gladiators that they would be free if they could win a hundred victories, and many orcs achieved this goal, but what awaited them was to die in a dark dungeon, and freedom was nothing more than a lie.
Kargas was the first orc to break his left hand free from the shackles, and he and the warriors of the Hundred Battles formed the Shattered Hand Clan, and he himself became the chief of the Broken Hand Clan.
The more Izzy thought about it at this time, the more excited he became, he must rescue Kargas and help him establish the Broken Hand Clan, so that he can save the orcs at least seventy percent of his certainty.
Just like when Izzy saved Calgas, Izzy began to make a plan in his mind.
First he must be able to infiltrate the Hammer Keep, then find the location of Kargas, and finally help them open the gates when he kills the Gladiator Keeper so that the Broken Hand Clan can run for freedom.
The key to the goal is obvious.
How to infiltrate the Hammer Castle.
How to find Kargas.
How to open the gates of the Hanging Hammer Castle.
Thinking of this, Izzy suddenly beat his chest and regretted that the ogre had killed him too early, and he should have found out more information before killing him.
Reality is different from the game, what the Hanging Fort looks like now, Izzy hasn't seen it yet, if you follow the plot in the game, as soon as you enter the Hanging Castle, the first thing is the Hanging Hammer Gladiatorial Arena, and Kargas is likely to be locked in the underground of the Gladiatorial Arena.
Opening the gate is easy, whether the Broken Hand Clan can occupy the gate or not, it is a matter of Izzy's spell.
Come to think of it, everything will have to wait until he has seen the real Hammer Castle, and Kargas has won 97 games.
According to the information of the gladiatorial arena that Izzy has learned, it usually takes at least three days to a week for a match, and the opening bet is placed.
In more serious cases, if the gladiator is injured, it is possible to do it once a month.
In the case of Kargas, the Ogre Führer wants him to die, so it is safest to compress the time to 9 days.
It will take at least four days to travel from Havalo to the Hanging Fort by the hand of lava.
Time was too little, and Izzy thought anxiously, and walked out of the cave and said to Lanteriso, who was keeping vigil:
"Brother Rantreso, I'm going to do something big, and to be honest, you can't help much, it will take about nine days to a month. ”
Saying that Izzy was a little embarrassed, let Lanteriso go back alone, it was too dangerous, let him follow him, it was even more dangerous, he didn't know what to do.
"Can you tell me what's the big deal?"
Izzy nodded, telling him what he thought.
"That's right. Rantreso thought about it for a moment and said:
"I can help you with this, Izzy, what are you going to do when you pull a group of orcs out of Hammer Keep?"
Izzy thought for a moment and replied, "I'm going to bring them to Havalo first, there are ready-made walls and dwellings, and they are very always borrowed, I'm sure the Fireblade clan won't mind." ”
"So, the question is, are you familiar with this grassland, or am I, an orc who has lived here for decades, more familiar?"
Izzy was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that what he said made sense, and he was speechless.
Sighing, packing his luggage, Izzy prepared to rush overnight, with the speed of the lava hand, if the two of them took turns to control day and night, they might be able to reach the periphery of Hanghammer Castle in two and a half days.
Day and night, Izzy perfected his plan every day, and finally on the afternoon of the third day, they reached the outskirts of Hammer Castle and found a forest to hide, while Izzy observed the city from a distance.
The city of boulders looked impregnable, with all sorts of ogres coming and going at the gates, and patrolling guards looking around.
The situation was much harsher than Izzy had thought, and how to infiltrate the city was a big problem in itself.
Even if Izzy casts a spell to form a fog and turns into a wolf spirit, he may not be able to sneak into such a heavily guarded city.
Izzy decided to observe for another two days, trying to figure out a way while recovering mentally and physically.
Two days passed quickly, and Izzy probably understood the city's routine, the sun rises and opens the door, and the sun sets when the door closes, and the queues that come and go, mostly to deliver food or other items.
Izzy had already found a target, a fruit truck, which would leave Hammer Castle in the morning to an ogre camp near the Wild Fruit Grove and return to Hammer Castle in the afternoon, and so on.
Izzy only needs to follow the two cars into the Hammer Keep to observe the situation in the city at night, when the ogre guards are at their laxest.
With a plan in mind, Izzy eagerly began to infiltrate, leaving Lantreso on guard outside as the vehicle loaded with the wild fruit returned to the Hammer Keep in the afternoon, and he turned into a wolf spirit and ran under the trailer.
The old-fashioned trailer axle doesn't turn, and Izzy, who is somewhat transparent, is completely sure that he won't be detected, but just in case, he still uses the elemental vision to sense the movement around him.
The trailer stopped at the gate, and the ogre guards picked a few wild fruits and let the trailer enter the city, and Izzy was relieved to be sure.
Moving to the edge, Izzy observes the city, which is very different from the one in the game.
As soon as I entered, it was a three-way intersection, and in the middle was supposed to be the gladiatorial arena, and there were earth-shattering cheers from inside, and now the trailer where Izzy was hiding was walking towards the left intersection, and Izzy didn't get out of the car, he needed to determine where the trailer was parked.
Soon the trailer stopped, and stopped at a fruit stall to unload a batch of goods, and Izzy continued to lurk until dark, when all the fruit on the trailer was unloaded, and the two trailers stopped in a square near the door, where they were supposed to go out tomorrow morning.
Izzy jumped out of the car, and lay under the car to regain his human form, stroking the frost shadow in his mind, it was really hard, maintaining its transformation for so long.
Izzy got out of the car and walked in the shadows, and he deliberately got a black dress to wrap himself tightly.
It was about time for dinner, and the city was not heavily guarded, perhaps they felt safe when the gate was closed.
Izzy followed the shadows into the Colosseum, which was now deserted, and was divided into two levels, one with an elliptical enclosure enclosed on the inside, without even a doorway, and on the outside was the spectator's seat and the staircase leading to the ground.
Izzy probably speculated that it should lead from the staircase to the dungeon, and then the dungeon to a structure like the gladiatorial arena.
Izzy walked up the stairs, and once I went to the passages to the left and right, Izzy carefully and slowly thought about the entrance on the left.
A cell door blocked him, the corners of Izzy's mouth curled slightly, he may be the best locksmith in this world, the fingers of his right hand turned into soft mud, poked into the keyhole, and felt the structure inside a little, and his index finger turned into the shape of a key, easily unlocking.
Izzy closed the door softly and continued to walk inside, the dark environment was very favorable to him.
On the right side of this corridor, wooden cell doors began to appear, and Izzy glanced quietly, and in one room, six orcs with their left hand locked to the wall could be seen as far as the eye could see, and they could only kneel on the ground with one hand locked.
There are two orcs on one wall, and there should be 8 people in one room.
Izzy frowned, in such a dimly lit environment, it was difficult for Izzy to tell which one was Kargas.
After thinking about it for a moment, Izzy was going to explore the area first.
Continuing to walk inside, just when Izzy thought there were no guards, he finally saw a guard who was leaning against a wall and facing a passageway.
Izzy probably understood the structure of this dungeon, and at first he could walk on the left and right, until the guard's position was in the middle, and the passage facing the guard should be the center of the gladiatorial arena.
Izzy waited patiently, he didn't believe that the ogre would guard diligently, looking at the ogre's head shaking and shaking, Izzy wanted to give him a pillow and slash him again.
After ten minutes of waiting, the ogre simply stopped guarding, he shook his head, and actually took out a blanket from the small cabinet on the side, spread it on the floor and fell asleep.
Izzy quietly walked over and looked at the ogre sleeping like a dead pig, and felt that such a character, in the TV series, I am afraid that he will not survive the next moment.
Izzy walked to the middle corridor of the arena, and after a while he saw a huge space with a round hole in the ceiling, and the entrance to the hole was blocked by many iron railings, and only a little moonlight could shine through.
The huge circular space inside, about 16 orcs were handcuffed, and Izzy turned into a wolf soul, and he didn't want to alarm them for the time being, so he walked in the shadows.
Izzy immediately saw an orc in the moonlight, reaching for a stone illuminated by the moonlight.
Izzy glanced at the stone, which was the metallic stone he used to exercise as a child, and then looked at the owner of his hand.
It's Kargas.