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The existence of secret passages was often brought up jokingly in tavern talk among commoners. It held its ground as a staple of old stories where the hero narrowly escaped death through a hidden tunnel to one day return for revenge.
Some said such passages were pure fiction. After all, why would the lofty and noble lords ever use the same escape routes that even commoners could gossip about? Surely, they would rely on artifacts—powerful relics—to flee instead.
So? Leon asked El-Cid to continue.
—That’s why they’re stupid. They don’t realize that no one clings to life more desperately than nobles. They use their artifacts, sure—but they also dig three, four, sometimes ten tunnels beneath their homes.
He chuckled dryly before adding, —They say the clever rabbit digs three burrows, don’t they? Same logic.
Three hundred years hadn’t changed a thing. Any noble family with history or influence had at least several hidden tunnels beneath their mansion. And for royalty or the imperial bloodline? That went without saying.
To guard against assassination, rebellion, or sudden raids, the palace was laced with emergency escape routes—so many that one could easily get lost without a map. It was through one such passage that a young Lyon Cailum Gladius Pon Clyde had once escaped Calelum.
Leon recalled his earlier conversation with Lyon.
“What I’m about to teach you is a secret inherited only by the direct line of the Clyde Imperial Family.”
The Mad Emperor, Nex, being...
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