In the silent night except the loud sound of the wind blasting through the air nothing could be heard, Elliot took a step behind the guard who was guarding the dungeons alone and hit him behind the neck. Before the guard even realized something was happening he had already lost consciousness.
And Elliot took the key to the metallic door, he didn't even bother hiding the guard as he had already realized the most important part : finding the villagers. As he walked through the rows of cells Elliot could see there were a few thousands people locked in here, the dungeons were very long and it took him 5 minutes to walk from end to end.
His objective at the moment was to find the mayor, the mayor knew everyone in the village and he would free them after he was freed. During that time Elliot would take care of the baron, he had the description of Alex's father but it still wasn't easy in the dark. Elliot had been transported suddenly and so forgot to took his backpack with him for the quest.
In the end all he had to rely on was a candle he found attached to a wall, he walked rather slowly to avoid turning it off and kept looking for the old man. Alex has described him as a frail middle aged man that could be mistaken for an old man, he had a long white beard and should be wearing a green jade ring. That ring was the token of the mayor and so only he should have it.
After awhile the candles light flickered and Elliot saw from the corner of his eye a green reflection, he turned towards the cell and got closer. Inside it were 3 men and the three of them looked rather strong and not anywhere near old, one of them had a green ring at his finger and so Elliot was lost.
The mayor was Alex's father so there was no way his description could be off to this point.
"Excuse me ?"
Inside the cell the three men that were trying to sleep looked at Elliot vehemently, of course they wouldn't expect him to be here to save them since they were in the middle of the baron's territory and so someone who could come here was logically someone on the same side as the baron.
Although the three of them looked at him none of them answered him and he found himself in a quite awkward situation.
"Uhm... are you guys from the village 20 kilometers away in that direction ?"
'How inconvenient that that village doesn't even have a name. Sigh.'
In fact it had a name but Elliot just forgot to ask and so kept referring to it as "the village in that direction".
Once again the three guys didn't answer and Elliot decided that he couldn't lose anymore time, he pulled out the keys from his pocket and opened the cell, when he was done he threw the keys to the guys with the jade ring and said
"I came here to save you all, open the cells of all the other villagers and wait here. When you hear a loud commotion outside it will be the signal to run away."
The three surprised men looked at Elliot with wide eyes and then exchanged surprised looks, they had all accepted their fate and believed they would die here but suddenly someone had came to save them.
"Wait who sent you ?!"
Before Elliot left the man with the jade ring stopped him and asked, tears were covering his face but his eyes were full of hope.
"Alex sent me, I'll be going now. Stay alert, when you hear the signal I want you all to leave this city and to go towards the village as fast as possible. While you're at it free all the prisoners, this way you guys won't be suspected of what's going to happen."
Without leaving them the time to answer Elliot left, he wanted to cause chaos in the palace to allow the villagers to leave and so he decided that focusing the baron was the best choice, that way all the soldiers and guards would come to him and that would open a safe route for the villagers to leave.
As he didn't know where the baron was staying he just blatantly walked in the palace and started causing a mess, whenever he walked by a piece of art be it a painting, a sculpture or a vase he would break it without an remorse.
He thought about taking some with him to sell them back on earth but he didn't have anything to carry them so he just used them to attract attention and it worked, a few seconds later he was surrounded by guards while maids and stewards looked from afar to stay out of the danger zone.
"Who are you, what's your goal by invading the palace and causing such a mess, do you know how expensive these things you just broke are?!"
Elliot was suddenly flooded by questions and didn't know which one to answer first so he just disappeared and gave the man who talked a punch on the heart, the man flew a few meters away and didn't stand up again.
Elliot himself wasn't sure if he had killed him with that punch or not but he didn't really feel bad for it, even though that was his job this person was still working for this rotten lord and probably did the dirty work for him together with the other soldiers.
"State you're name ! This noble right here will give you and your family a painful death for having disturbed my sleep !"
Suddenly from the other end of the corridor where the maids were standing a middle aged man wearing a silver silk dress walked over and started shouting at Elliot.
"You're baron Crus ?"
Elliot asked, he heard him call himself "this noble" but who knows, this guy might just be an arrogant vassal and Elliot didn't care about anyone else but the baron.
"That's me, are you ignorant to the point that you don't know what this noble looks like ?"
This person obviously liked being recognized and suddenly his face showed an arrogant smile, Elliot looked at him and wondered how could such a person become a knight.
'Isn't a knight a noble person who protect the weak and fight for his kingdom ? This guy was made into a knight with such a rotten soul... I guess the kingdom I am in right know isn't that great.'
Elliot pulled out the scissors claw dagger and disappeared from the spot, half a second later his dagger was on the way to cut the baron's throat when suddenly.
Whoooosh
Elliot heard a whistling sound and guessed what it was, that sound was birthed when a sword cut through the air and that wasn't his own because his dagger being shorter made a difference sound.
CLAAAANG
"Humph! How arrogant !"