"What a bunch of absolute horseshit"
"Heh, sorry about that Ikarus, looks like we took the wrong turn but we should be good now"
Having just witnessed the Pope's outburst, and Petra have now left that underground throne room and are still invisibly moving through the halls under the monastery. To think he's had that sort of reaction from finding out his army has failed!? Even if there was any sense of doubt doing this, seeing that old man smashing glasses and still planning to destroy us proves this place needs to burn. That young Inquisitor of his whatever that ans doesn't need any sympathy as well.
"Seriously though, how stupid does he think we are? It's obvious if we sued for peace that they'd never let go of that homophobia"
"Heh, arrogance itself is a sin Ikarus. May make a joke but I've seen firsthand what too much confidence can do to a person, myself included"
Ah, right, Petra did say she was extrely arrogant back in her younger days but I always find that extrely hard to imagine. I guess there have been signs like how she completely assud wrong that the monastery were much weaker than we thought but I'd say that was just misinformation more than anything else.
We're also whispering as quietly as possible, both of us have just crouched past a roaming bunch of paladins in the halls but that seed to be a rare exception. These halls are pretty empty for the most part.
"So... I'm guessing that rumoured secret weapon they have is Excalibur then? Does it give us the power to rule Britannia or sothing?"
"Heh, it's strong Ikarus but nothing like that. If mory is working correctly, it shoots of a beam of magic every swing or sothing like that. It's been a while since I saw it last being used"
Of course, Petra's past has involved encountering the holy sword Excalibur, why am I not surprised? At tis, it feels like her story is ending while mine is just getting started. This better not be a bad on or sothing...
Even being invisible though, we're able to talk just simple down do these halls underground being mostly empty and unguarded, it's actually a little surprising due to how many soldiers they sent. Frankly, we could probably change up our approach and start attacking everyone in sight but that just seems like an unnecessary risk especially considering these underground halls are like a maze.
I have no idea where we actually are and there has to be more soldiers hidden around here sowhere, they probably have so sort of alarm to warn about intruders as well. That group we hid past only had six or so but that's really all we've co past so there has to be more. Sothing like the barracks for example would probably be in a lower-class place down here anyways.
Anyways, we continue traversing the endless hallways and eventually make our ways to a much wider one. We've probably been down here for a good hour now; I kinda feel like Petra forgot the route but was just winging it as we went along. That, or these tunnels are too complex even for her.
"That's definitely the vault Ikarus, looks like we've arrived"
"Yeah Petra, but there's a bigger problem. How do we get past them?"
We're obviously whispering even quieter now due to the two guards standing in front of the vault door. By the looks of it, opening it up would be easy just by rotating the tal bank looking lock but there's no chance we can do such a thing with those two standing in the way. They'd definitely hear, see and probably even feel the door hitting their backs.
"I'll handle this Ikarus, stay here just one second"
Doing as she asks, Petra let goes of my invisible hand and walks towards the guards I presu but I obviously can't see her. I'm a little unsure what she's going to do since combat always switches the invisibility off and then activates the cooldown tir but maybe she has a way of getting around it?
Then, without warning, one of the paladins guarding the vault literally loses his head with the other rapidly receiving the sa sword stabbing into the side of his neck. Both of them collapse to the ground with a standing visible Petra as the culprit.
"Petra! You understand your invis is gone now, right?"
"There was no other way of doing this Ikarus. Besides, I've scanned one of them so there's still a way. Let's get this door open quickly"
Scanned one of them? Oh, Petra's face changing ability she showed to way back in the hot springs! I was pretty dumb and naïve about the whole empire back then thinking about it but this could still prove an issue. I'll just trust Petra and see if she knows what she's doing.
"Sure sure, this still seems a little risky but you're the expert"
Both of us, still invisible start to turn the huge vault lock and once it's unlocked, we slowly pull it open. I kinda feel like we've just broken into a bank or a fort full of gold right now, minus the lockpicking or the insane amount of prep work scoping this place out beforehand.
Inside the room, it actually reminds of sothing a bank vault would look like! tal bars separate certain sections containing chests full of gold, containers filled with jewellery and trinkets, religious artifacts like chalices and diamond adorned crosses...
And slap bang in the centre of the room is a sword stuck into a pedestal. Please don't tell soone needs to be worthy to pull it out.
"Let's grab anything not tied down Ikarus, then go for the sword"
"Hey, don't need to tell since I'm an excellent thief I'll have you know... even if I don't actually rember stealing anything in this life"
"Heh"
Before coming out here, I purposely made to empty my inventory just so I'd have enough room but I'm not sure if it'll still be enough! Let's just focus on the relics and other items like that first before we move onto the gold, we have got to try and be quick about this. We may have moved the bodies into the vault but anyone walking to this place seeing it unguarded would obviously be suspicious.
Both of us start grabbing as much as we can, then placing it onto my ring for it to be put into storage. Obviously, Petra can't see it so I have to take the stuff off her and she can't even see in the first place but you get what I an.
We keep stuffing stuff in for a while and Aesa's yet to give a warning about how much we've stolen, it's got to be getting close to full capacity now, right?
'Aesa, how much room left?'
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