Chapter 198: The Basement
What the following day held was something beyond the apprentices’ imaginations once it was presented to them. While they all slept, Sir Gunnar had been tearing apart bedding in strips once again. When they all met in the same barrack the next morning, he offered every person a couple of strips of fabric.
He then showed them how to use them by holding up his own and fashioning one of them around his face so that it covered his mouth and nose. He took it off.
Everyone was given two just in case.
"From my understanding, there is a lot of poisonous smoke in the basement," the knight explained. "We will be bringing down supplies to seal the entrances. I feel that this is a required step to get the goblin situation under control. They somehow infiltrated the Duke’s Tower through a tunnel system... Er, at least that’s what I’ve been told. We will be going in blind, which is why I need all of you to have your partners’ backs."
There wasn’t more to it than that. After a brief breakfast, they reconvened in the practice yard.
Just as with the day before, the moment the sun was high in the sky, the goblins disappeared into various corners. It was hard to tell where they came from or where they went.
It made it all that much more frightening to go into a basement blindly, wondering if the awful creatures were filling the space.
Based on the sheer number of them, they would fill the basement practically wall to wall.