In an empty alley, Jacob opened a manhole cover and came out of it panting.
He put the manhole cover back in place and leaned against a nearby wall and sat down tiredly.
After sitting down, Jacob put his hand on his stomach and realized that Astrid's attack was more serious than he imagined, but Jacob knew that he couldn't go back to Angelica right now:
"Damn... How does a kick manage to punch a hole in someone's stomach?!"
He groaned in pain and stood up calmly and just as he was about to start running to escape, the ground beneath him shook and he spoke:
"Then the fight must have finally begun.... I hope my crocodile friend can cash in on the beating I took."
Jacob finished speaking and started running to the main gate....
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After minutes...
At the main gate, the cavalry commander came riding horses up to the main gate and looked at the wall of soldiers defending every square meter and said:
"Get out of your posts and go help General Astrid! We need reinforcements in the main square! That's an order!"
Without even questioning, the soldiers began to leave their posts and ran to the main square.
The cavalry commander was an elegant man of advanced age, his orange hair with a noble hairstyle gave him an air of youth.
He looked at the gate, which had only a few soldiers defending it, and reflected:
'So these were ordered not to leave the post under any circumstances, eh?'
He tapped his whip on his horse and said:
"The spy already seems to have been captured again, so you can relax a bit, but don't leave your posts!"
"Yes sir!"
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Jacob watched from afar the cavalry commander and then the soldiers who had only a dozen and thought:
'Hm... for me to get out I need to open that huge gate with the lever, there is also a way out through the small gate, but I will need the key and it is waste of time to go after it now... But how am I going to get past those guards and open the lever?'
Suddenly, jacob felt that same feeling he had had earlier with erick and he quickly turned around and said to the bushes in front of him:
"Reveal yourself!"
"Hm... I just arrived and you already felt my presence? How interesting..."
An elderly man with white hair, stood up and came out of the bushes all smiling and said to jacob:
"So you're the mysterious spy they're talking about? Anyway, my name is Rodric, nice to meet you."
Rodric extended his hand forward expecting jacob to shake it, but jacob was not interested in that and said:
"Stop winding me up and tell me what you want here."
Rodric withdrew his hand with a bitter taste in his mouth and replied:
"Anyway, I want to help you escape."
Jacob looked at rodric who was smiling like a child and reflected:
'Why does he want to help me? Won't he be the future master of Raphael? And why is he here? How did he find me?'
"Haha, no need to get like that, I want to help you because I KNOW you are not the spy."
"Go lie to another old man."
"Hohohoho, I see you're someone smart."
"Stop winding up and tell me what the fuck you want here."
"Hm..."
Rodric stopped smiling and looked seriously at jacob and said:
"I want you to become my disciple."
After hearing rodric's answer, Jacob was surprised, he knew who that old man was and knew the abilities he had, but he also knew that he should stop dreaming in this world.
So Jacob turned his back to rodric and went back to watching the soldiers as he answered:
"I'm not in the mood to become your disciple, so if you want to help me, kill those soldiers and..."
Before jacob could finish his sentence, rodric spoke:
"My name is rodric... And I am a primordial dragon."
Rodric looked at jacob expecting the surprised face but all he got was a short answer:
"If you are not going to help me then leave."
"Hohoho, I see you don't believe this old man's words, but allow me..."
"I Believe you, but I don't care if you are a dragon or not."
Rodric made a confused expression and reflected:
'Does this guy have a problem? Doesn't he know what it means to be chosen by a dragon?'
Jacob suddenly turned to Rodric and asked:
"By the way, how did you find me?"
"Cough-cough, it was a little difficult...I had to follow your tracks through smell from that alley you were in."
"Hm, so you were sniffing the ground like a dog?"
"What? No, you idiot! I'm a dragon! I was following your scent in the air!"
"Uhum, okay... now are you going to help me get out or not?"
Rodric looked up into the heavens and then looked at jacob and replied:
"I will help you, but I need to know why you don't want to be my disciple."
"It is simple, I am not like him, so your training will not help me."
Rodric looked confused and asked:
"Him?"
"You will meet him in the future.... Anyway, you can turn into a dragon, can't you? Then simulate an attack on the kingdom so I can sneak out."
"Hm... you are someone strange, jacob voss."
"Yeah, I am..."
Suddenly, rodric used invisibility magic on himself and jacob and right after that he used healing magic on jacob and said:
"I'll give you a ride out of here, but I want to hear your story on the way."
Jacob looked at his body that had disappeared and then looked to where rodric's voice was coming from, but strangely enough, jacob knew exactly where rodric was and replied:
"Fair enough."
Rodric smiled and began to transform into a dragon.