Chapter 180. What Festers Below

JACOB

The cracks destroyed the ground, and the remaining concrete crumbled to pieces. The dust cloud spread throughout the small house, and we waited with swords drawn and shields up for what was inside to ward off a possible imminent attack.

The human hands that protruded revealed that it wasn’t a monster, as many of the others must have feared. They began to climb, carrying the tools of their trade on their backs.

“Raid the tunnel!” I shouted as a direct order to my soldiers.

This time the hole led to a place not so far from the tunnel floor. The men who climbed through there were not wearing harnesses.

The soldiers descended with me in command to carry out the siege. The fanatics who were nearby ran away and hid; they were only a handful, and their task was apparently only to destroy the floor of the house. They fled with the hammers, pickaxes, and other objects they would have used to smash it until the floor was completely destroyed so they could h