Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 181 Coolies
Rhodes carried Gilbert to the depths of the cave. The road in the cave was winding and winding. It felt like going up and down for a while, so that Rhodes didn't know where he was.

"Where?" Rhodes stopped at a fork in the road.

"The first three intersections are all on the far left, and the last intersection is on the middle one. The others are dead ends, and it's just a waste of time to go." Gilbert blurted out without thinking.

"You tell me everything directly like this, are you afraid that I will kill you if you lose your value?" Rhodes was a little puzzled. He felt that people like Gilbert should not notice this.

"Forgot." Gilbert replied after a moment of silence.

Rhodes suddenly remembered that he seemed to have used the special effects of the wise man's disaster for him before, and it is normal for him to be a little stupid now.

After that, Rhodes continued to move forward according to Gilbert's instructions.

He stopped before a closed stone door.

"How to open this?" Rhodes asked

"Push hard," Gilbert replied.

Rhodes put Gilbert on his shoulders on the ground, then took a deep breath and pushed the stone door hard.

The Shimen was much lighter than he imagined, and the Shimen was slowly pushed open.

Appearing in front of Rhodes is a layer of stairs.

"Walk up from here and climb up a ladder to reach the cellar of the castle. When I climbed up a long time ago, there were oak barrels for wine." Before Rhodes could speak, Gilbert said it himself.

"Why do you still remember after so long?" Rhodes asked.

"I'm a genius with a photographic memory," Gilbert replied proudly.

It used to be, and it certainly isn't today.

Rhode hesitated looking at the stairs in front of him, wondering if he should climb up or not.

He was worried that this was not actually a secret, maybe the emperor already knew about it, and had many people guarding the secret passage.

Finally Rhodes turned around and retreated behind the stone gate, closing the stone gate.

Prepare to leave the cave, and plan to set up some traps at the entrance of the cave, such as digging pits and the like.

Ten minutes later, he returned to the entrance of the cave and put Gilbert on his shoulders.

He took out a shovel from the system space, which he also got during the ten consecutive draws.

"Are you talented in magic?" Rhode asked suddenly.

"One thing, but I'm all self-taught, and because I don't have any books to learn from, I can only learn some simple magic now." Gilbert replied.

Rhodes nodded, untied his pit, and handed him the shovel.

"Dig a hole at the entrance of the cave, the deeper the better, don't try to be lazy, I'll watch you here." Rhode found a seat and sat down.

Gilbert took the shovel resentfully and started digging.

Rhodes found that he was working much faster than he imagined, and his strength was not small, not as weak as it seemed on the surface.

"You used to do this kind of work often? It feels like you're quite strong." Rhodes leaned against the stone wall and asked
"I have taken alchemy potions that increase my physical fitness." Gilbert, who was digging hard, replied.

After about half an hour, Gilbert dug a deep pit of more than three meters.

"Okay, this deep enough." Rhodes said.

"Pull me up," Gilbert yelled from the pit.

When Gilbert was digging a hole before, Rhodes used the mage ball to move the soil he dug to the side.

For the soil that has not been shoveled down by the shovel, Rhodes will consume a lot of mana to move it directly with the mage ball, but it will be much easier to move the soil that has been shoveled down.

"Stay here, so as not to reveal my identity when I go back." Rhodes said with a smile.

"Don't, I promise to all the gods in the sky that I will not reveal your secret." Gilbert shouted from the pit.

There was no way to borrow strength from the pit, and he couldn't climb out at all.

After being affected by the Calamity of the Wise Men, he didn't think of continuing to dig with the shovel in his hand, creating a slope and then climbing out.

"I know you don't believe in the existence of gods at all." Rhodes replied, he thought that an alchemist should also be an atheist.

"But I'm telling the truth, betraying you won't do me any good. If the guards in the fortress can't catch you, it will only cause me trouble." Gilbert explained loudly.

Rhodes used the mage ball to control gravity to lift Gilbert out of the pit, and lifted him 50 meters into the air, then suddenly let go of him, and caught him when he was about to touch the ground.

"If you dare to leak it, I won't catch it next time." Rhodes said, looking at the pale Gilbert.

"Don't dare, I didn't intend to reveal it." Gilbert, who had just experienced a jumping machine, replied tremblingly.

Rhodes used the mage ball to disperse all the soil to an inconspicuous location, and then took out the wooden barrel in the system space to fill the entire pit with water.

"Go and shovel a suitable sized turf to cover it, and go a little farther away," Rhodes said.

After hearing this, Gilbert trotted all the way, took the shovel to the back of a tree and continued to work as a coolie.

Rhodes wondered if he had a bad taste. A few hours ago, Gilbert was lazily leaning on the chair, as if his clothes were more gorgeous, others would definitely regard him as a noble noble youth.

And a few hours later, he was hard at the coolie.

Not long after, Gilbert brought a large piece of turf. Rhodes first found a few branches as supports, and then covered the pit with the turf.

"We can go back now, I'm a little hungry." Gilbert returned the shovel to Rhodes.

Rhodes nodded, he felt a little hungry too.

"You don't have to use that strange spell on me later, I promise I won't make any noise while hiding in that pile of wheat." Gilbert said again.

"Can't you just walk into the city with me later?" Rhode felt that the effect of the Calamity of the Wise Men was really good.

Gilbert was a little embarrassed. He didn't know what happened to him today. He wasn't like this before.

Back at the tavern in the fortress, Gilbert took the initiative to pay Rhodes for a meal, and then returned to his grocery store.

Rhodes ordered a glass of wine, and stayed on the first floor of the tavern, listening to the mercenaries next to him discuss what happened yesterday.

"It is said that yesterday's inspection did not catch the murderer, only a few thieves were caught. Those thieves would have had their hands cut off if they were caught, but because yesterday was a special situation, those thieves were all hanged."

"It's such a pity that such a wise and mighty Marquis Dempsey didn't die on the battlefield, but died in an assassination."

"Do you think that person will come to blow up the tavern we live in? I'm a little afraid that I won't wake up after falling asleep these days."

"If he dares to come, that's what I like. If I can catch him with my own hands, maybe I can be awarded the title of knight."

"You have a good idea. If he dares to come, I must be the first to catch him."

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Just when Rhodes was about to interject himself, Gilbert appeared in front of him again.

"Why are you back?" Rhodes asked suspiciously.

"I forgot when I left, the key to my house is still with you." Gilbert said awkwardly...

(End of this chapter)