36 Chapter 36: Stone Toe Joe (1/2)
The guards stood there looking at the sleeping Caesar with complex eyes for a few minutes before finally one of the guards took a deep breath and tip-toed over towards Caesar.
Sweat streamed down his face as he got closer, his back was already drenched by the time he was a foot away from Caesar.
*gulp*
The guard gulped down his saliva and slowly moved his hand towards Caesar's shoulder and nudged him… ”marshall… your free” The guard cupped his hands in front of his mouth and whispered towards Caesar's ear.
Caesar squinted his sleepy eyes and slowly raised his upper body, he looked at the guard that was next to him curiously for a second before yawning loudly.
”Yawn”
Caesar wiped the tears that formed under his eyes and slowly stood up, he stretched his limbs and looked at the guards.
”What are you guys staring at?” he asked inquiringly
The guards were at a loss for words for a few seconds before finally one of them got a grip and replied respectively ”Marshall, no… Crown Prince, you are being released on the orders of King Crowley”
Hearing the guards refer to him as crown prince made him shiver in discomfort, ”refer to me as the marshall please” he said with a dead-pan expression.
The guards looked at him confused for a second before replying loudly ”yes, Marshall!”
Caesar nodded in acceptance and started walking out of the prison cell… ”my father worked much faster than I expected” he grumbled quietly while walking out of the cell.
After Caesar left the cell the guards just quietly followed behind him. The prison was damp and dark, there was only one walkway. On both sides of the walkway were many different prison cells. remnants of human bones were still in the cells.
Caesar looked at all of this and thought to himself silently ”it seems that the guards here don't clean up their prison cells, at least they put me in a relatively clean one”
*step*
Five pairs of footsteps echoed throughout the prison, Caesar noticed that there were no other prisoners here so he turned around and looked at the guards behind him curiously ”where are we? And where are the other prisoners?
The guards had a troubled expression on their face as they explained to Caesar calmly”our prison has 10 levels, the lower the number the further down you need to travel, we are currently at level 0… There is only 1 other prisoner here”
Caesar stroked his chin, ”who is the other prisoner?” he asked curiously.
”A dwarf that snuck into this kingdom, when a few of our guards tried stopping him he killed them in a fit of rage. Locke Pheles happened to have been the one that captured him, your grandfather” The guard said respectively and patiently
”Hmmm, take me to him. He sounds interesting” Caesar hummed for a second and said to the guards with a smile.
The guards hesitated for a second before saluting and saying: ”as you command marshall!”
They turned back around and entered into an even darker part of the prison, one of the guards lit a torch as they moved deeper inside.
*creak*
The guards opened a large iron gate and led Caesar into a very spacious square room, in the middle of the room laid a decently sized cage. Caesar squinted his eyes and saw a small lump under the covers inside the cage.
The guards halted their steps and stood at the iron door ”w-we are just going to stay here Marshall… to keep an eye on the surroundings of course” the guards made a quick excuse.
Caesar didn't pay them much heed and slowly walked towards the huge cage, as Caesar got closer to the cage he could see the lump under the covers visibly move.
*sniff*
*sniff*
”Err, what is that damn smell” a very rough and deep voice echoed throughout the square room.
Slowly the covers were pushed from the bed and a 3ft tall muscular looking man waddled out, he had a long red beard and flowing red hair. His facial features were rough and were overall quite ugly.
The dwarf yawned lazily and sat on the ground cross-legged, he started picking his nose with his right hand and started grumbling nonsense…
”Man… where is the ale when you need it, I also want to marry one of those sexy elf women hehe”
”Ahem” Caesar cleared his throat loudly and grabbed the dwarf's attention.
The dwarf raised his eyes and looked at Caesar…
”Huh, what the fuck are you?” The dwarf looked at Caesar with confusion whilst picking his nose.
Caesar didn't mind his rude tone and introduced himself ”I am the marshall of the kingdom”
The dwarf looked at Caesar dumbfounded for a while before roaring in laughter ”HAHAHA, I KNEW SOONER OR LATER ONE OF MY KIND WOULD INFILTRATE”
The dwarf held his stomach while rolling around laughing, after about 15 seconds of laughter he noticed the confused expressions of the guards and inched closer to the gate.
”OI! You should have told me the humans didn't know… let me out already”
Caesar stroked his chin in contemplation while looked at the dwarf, ”does he know that I am not a human?” thinking to here Caesar looked at the dwarf and put one finger over his lips.
”Shuush” Caesar made a shushing sound and walked closer to the cage, he crouched down so he could be eye level with the dwarf and smiled at him.
A vein popped above the dwarfs right eye, ”oi you ain't tryna mock my height are you?”
This time Caesar chuckled softly and tilted his head at the dwarf ”do you want to leave from here?”
The dwarf looked at Caesar as if he was retarded ”no shit I want to leave here, hurry up and let me out or ima tell those guards over there you ain't human”
Caesar stood back up and smiled even wider ”are you good with making weapons and traveling?”
”Of course I am you dimwit, stop asking me these stupid ass questions and let me out. God damn” The dwarf replied frustrated
”Haha, what is your name dwarf” Caesar calmly asked in spite of the dwarfs frustration.
”They call me stone toe joe, but my friends just call me Joe”
”Okay Joe, I'm going to let you out of here but you have to promise me something”
Caesar paused here and Joe's expression turned anxious again ”what is it? Hurry the hell up and tell me”
Caesar opened his lips gently ”be my subordinate”