Once Autarch left, only Jacob and Rudolph were left in the room.
At this moment, Jacob stood close to Rudolph and coldly asked, "Alright, start with whatever Percy didn't already know, and don't try to lie because if you did, I'd skin you alive!"
Rudolph shuddered, seeing the towering giant standing two meters away from him while he was still sitting in the rubble beside a little puddle of his own blood. Jacob's presence was simply too ghastly for him, and after witnessing everything, he threw any thoughts of resisting out of his mind.
"I-I… upon our twentieth birthday, F-fathe… His Holiness suddenly contacted me. I was surprised and also happy because it was the first time he ever contacted me after I was sent here.