Chapter 1352: Caledon Dragon Field
The Caledo Prison is located deep in the Anuli Mountains. The surrounding environment is complex, with forests, canyons, and mountain roads everywhere, and there is not much guard force outside.
But no one is stupid enough to escape the prison. This area is the main hunting ground of dragons. There are often irritable scorching sun dragons flying over. Anyone who approaches without carrying relevant magic symbols will be hit by a breath.
The hollowed-out mountain and the spiral-shaped cells made Kurt, who has experienced many battles, shudder. He did not expect that Caledo's prison would be a hollowed-out mine.
The hole with a diameter of 100 meters is filled with abandoned slag and waste at the bottom. The sharp spikes only need to touch lightly to turn the faller into a hedgehog.
Surrounding the abandoned mine pit are cells of equal size. The cells do not have the usual iron bars. They are empty like grids embedded in the mountain. In the rock grids, prisoners can touch the freedom they dream of. They only need to reach out and climb up along the gaps, and it seems that they can escape from this prison.
There are two possibilities for doing this. The first is that they are pulled to the abandoned mine pit by the gravity spell in the center and turned into countless bloody hedgehogs. The other is that they climb to the top and are swallowed by the dragon nesting on the top.
Gravekeeper, this is the self-proclaimed name of the black-robed elves. Kurt finds this name very interesting.
"Gravekeeper... You were once a criminal."
The gravekeeper remained silent and came to the center of the bottom floor of the prison. He told a series of complex encrypted passwords to the person who was also wearing a black robe.
"Your Highness's request, below level 4, they take it away."
The manager has verified it many times, including asking the gravekeeper to pull up his sleeves to reveal rows of complex and profound ancient elf runes, and carefully distinguish whether there is a possibility of replacement.
"The roster."
A thin document was handed over to Kurt by the gravekeeper.
Kurt certainly couldn't read the Elven language, so he handed it to a Rick Guard accompanying him. Except for him and Karl Franz, most of the Rick Guards who were traveling with him knew the Elven language, and some of them had become language experts who could understand the accents of various countries in Ulthuan at the request of the emperor.
"Find some useful ones... not political prisoners or those with low morals."
Kurt knew very well that retrieving people from prison was like panning for gold in shit, but if you really find them, they will be much more useful than the elves found by normal means.
The Rick Guard took the roster. This document recorded the people in the prison in a very concise way, and it was divided into three levels.
The first was the minor offenders placed at the bottom. These were prisoners waiting to be exiled. Most of them had committed some things that were considered extremely shameful in Caledor society... embezzling the pensions of comrades, bullying widows, incest, etc.
The knight automatically omitted this group of moral lepers. The Empire is not a garbage dump. No matter how capable one is, one must at least follow some rules generally recognized by society.
The criminals placed on the second floor attracted some attention from the knights. Most of the moral crimes disappeared, but some...
"Sir Kurt, I found the deeds of a dragon prince... He may be of great value to the Empire."
"Speak." Kurt was not subtle. In front of the two prison guards, he asked the translator to speak on the spot. He was not a shy person.
"Rosetina Majorus was ordered to suppress the rebellion of Nagaros in the 71st year of the coronation of the Phoenix King. Due to tactical errors and other reasons, he lured the Shadow Tribe into a human settlement in the Obsidian Peaks, causing irreparable losses... Indefinite imprisonment."
Being ordered to suppress the rebellion means that this Rosetina was recognized by Caledor. As for which Caledor, Kurt was too lazy to think about it. Anyway, they are the same.
"I need a detailed file of Rosetina Marionus."
The marshal extended his hand and asked the gravekeeper to cooperate with the work. He did not believe that the records in the prison were so few.
The gravekeeper hesitated for a moment, and thought of what His Highness had said before, and agreed.
Let the Empire take away all the guys that can be taken away, especially those troublemakers. Since they can't move normally in Ulthuan, they should go to the Old World to wash away their grievances and prove that they have the honor to return to their hometown.
Rosetina Marionus... One of the big troublemakers, the biggest mistake he made was that he did not follow the rules of mutual respect between elves and humans led by the court, and used humans as bait without authorization.
Although the battle report was perfect, at the cost of losing hundreds of houses and dozens of lives, the Shadow Tribe in an area was completely wiped out, but there was no plan notified in advance, which led to extremely serious public opinion impact on the society of the New World.
Without the transmission of the file, the gravekeeper spoke of Rosetina Marionus's deeds in a hoarse voice.
"Rosetina Majorus, former noble of Tal Kareid, a seal dragon prince, has won numerous medals of honor..."
"A seal dragon prince? You mean, he had a dragon ally two hundred years ago."
The gravekeeper nodded dully. After the battle of Finnuval Plain, the prince added golden dragon wing shoulder badges to all high-ranking dragon princes as a recognition of Caledor's outstanding contributions.
And Rosetina is the only dragon prince who was awarded the honor but ended up in prison.
"You can take him away, but whether His Excellency Rosetina is willing depends on his own ideas..."
Kurt signaled Rick's guards to stop reading the roster. The marshal became more and more curious about this dragon prince. What kind of situation could make someone who was already at the top of the kingdom's power become a prisoner...
When an important military noble is imprisoned, countless forces will be implicated. Kurt would not be naive to think that Draknir could completely ignore the nobles' ideas and throw anyone into the mine the next day.
Defense, trial, force judgment... all kinds of means can help Rosetina escape successfully.
Following the spiral corridor of the mountain, Kurt came to the second floor. When the gravekeeper opened the iron cell with a key, he slowly walked into the room where he could see the prisoners opposite.
From this perspective, this prison is quite humane, and prisoners can even chat freely.
"Who are you? I have never seen you... monkey." A very smooth steel spike was pressed against the marshal's neck when Kurt just stepped into the cell.
Very strong...
Kurt made a judgment immediately. He didn't even feel the movement in the cell, and was immediately controlled.
"I am Kurt Helberg of the Empire, and I am here to visit Mr. Rosetina Majorus with sincerity."
"I don't like communicating with monkeys, get lost."
The steel spike left Kurt's neck, and the marshal saw the elf who threatened his life.
In the fairly tidy cell, a middle-aged elf with long golden hair tied into a ponytail was sitting on a stone chair, holding a book and reading it intently, as if nothing had happened just now. (End of this chapter)