My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World

Chapter 111: Control of the Underground

Chapter 111: Control of the UndergroundJen, the captive alchemist, kept telling me about the royal family and the empire after I told her I wasn’t from there.

The Empress had passed away a few years ago, and her oldest daughter took the throne. The second prince was at the border fighting in the war, and the third princess, who was Jen’s best friend, was helping with the paperwork from their palace.

When I asked her if it was the previous Empress who refused to help Kalusia, she confirmed it as she clenched her fist in apprehension, expressing how it bothered her that the new Empress had to clean up such a mess.

After leaving another food bowl for her, I told her to stay in that room for the time being as we still hadn’t taken care of all the bandits underground.

Jen looked confused when I said "we," so I told Vespera to come out of my shadow and introduced her to the alchemist.

At first look, the pink-haired girl was startled as Vespera suddenly materialized, but when she approached her, she complemented the looks of my companion, which boosted Vespera’s mood.

Leaving Jen’s cell, I kept on checking all of the different paths of the underground tunnels, using magic to boost my speed. Honestly, if it weren’t for Vespera, I would have gotten lost in the labyrinth.

Somehow, my companion could tell which paths we had already checked, so I just followed her instinctive directions as she pointed at me where to go.

At one point, we found a double door at the end of the hallway that definitely looked important.

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When the owl grabbed the letter under its talons, the paper also turned a little transparent, like the spectral bird, and flew away while going through the walls as if they weren’t even there.

Threatening the man, I asked him to explain what that was, and he replied by saying that it was a magic artifact that allowed the person to send letters to anyone from anywhere.

It was a discrete form of communication, which I thought was pretty cool, but I hid my excitement since I was trying to threaten the guy.

Now that the letter had been sent, there was no point in using the bandit anymore, so I knocked him out and stacked his unconscious body with the others.

During the time that we had been taking down the bandits in the tunnels, Vespera and I were splitting the cursed members from the healthy ones. That way, we would know who were the real bandits later.

Leaving all of the criminals tied with Vespera’s spiderweb, we opened the double door that we hadn’t checked and found a massive dungeon-like area.

There were cells all around, but most were empty, making me wonder if they had already moved the people.

Nisa and Tony, the two members that I saved at first, told me that the leader had taken a big group with him to a city where they were sending the people they enslaved to other countries.

’What kind of country is buying slaves anyways...’ I pondered with annoyance.

Delving deeper inside the dungeon, we found another set of cells. This time, however, there were people inside.

The people recoiled in fear as soon as they saw us and crawled to the back of their cells. However, their worries started to dissipate after I pulled out bowls of food and started bending open the metal bars for them to get out.

A man and a woman couple were on one cell, an old man in another, a few kids bundled together in others. Honestly, it was pretty sad.

The old man introduced himself as Giovanno Lovegrad, which made me recognize his last name since it was the same as the alchemist girl from before, Jen.

He inquired about his granddaughter, so I told him that she was perfectly fine and that she had been healed of the curse, making the old man tear up with joy.

Giovanno told me that the dungeon we were located at was right under Romanov’s mansion, but the man hadn’t come to see his prisoners for a few days.

I told him that the leader had gone to another city, making the couple hug each other as they started crying, saying that their child had been taken on that cargo.

’If I remember correctly, he left a few days ago, and it’s supposed to be a one-week trip...’ I pondered, trying to see if I could catch up with them, which seemed possible.

I asked the old man if he knew more about Romanov’s residence, and he explained that, apart from the guards, it was full of servants and a butler who was overseeing everything while his master was gone.

My plan was to look around his home for clues and concrete proof of his crimes. Even though his underground dungeon was more than enough, I still felt somewhat unsure about the Empress and how she would react.

I didn’t know much about the Droman Empire and much less about the imperial family, so I wanted to make sure to deal with the problem efficiently.