Jominac, Chapter 4—The Location

Written by Dronin Gammerson

“Kilimor we found out how the thieves broke into the warehouses.” I said excitedly. “Oh and how is that?” Kilimor replied “They found the tunnels from the times when the Ravagers lived. The Ravagers lined the walls with slick goo that mixed with the dirt our great king Draldon filled the tunnels with keeping the tunnels from fully hardening, they than dug the holes out the night before they attacked. This would mean that their tunnel was easy to dig and there would be little time of possible discovery.” I recited. “Ah but how could the tunnels be kept from hardening for almost seven hundred years?” Kilimior pointed at me in a way that said I did not think this through. “Ravager goo is extremely long lived and even after seven hundred years would not deteriorate fully.” I replied patiently. “Hmmm okay so how do we find these tunnels and stop the thieves from using them?” Kilimor said with a frown and put his hand on his chin. “Ah yes we can locate the dirt because it is a slightly darker shade than the rest of the dirt. If we search every potential place to steal from with one or two guards than we could find quite a few of these places and post guards on the most potential ones of all of them, and if we don't find too many of them we can put guards on all of the potential places.” I explained. “That makes since I'll get the guards on it.” Kilimor walked away. I decided to check for them as well, planning on the places that I was going to check. I headed to the command room in case of an assassination or many of them. I came to the room and started at the corner moving the side tables as I went. Scanning I looked from one side of the room to the next and then moved down two or three feet. I continued this until I reached the table which I promptly moved and then continued. There was no darker dirt. I let out a sigh of relief, and began walking to the palace than stopped abruptly when I realized that the floor was layered with solid stone. No one could break through that without getting noticed. Quickly I changed direction to my own house. I checked that the same way I checked the command room. Then proceeded to check all of the other commander's rooms. This was not the most favorable tactic but when you are the senior intelligence officer then sometimes you must breach other people's privacy, but in order to maintain as much privacy as possible I kept my eyes on the ground only looking up when I had to move something out of my way. There were no entrances large enough to walk through. If the thieves were really determined they could crawl through a very narrow tunnel that would take forever to dig out because you had to dig while crawling. This tunnel was in Ilandrad the junior technology officer's house. After I had checked these places I went to Kilimor to find out what he had found at the other possible places to steal from. Before I got very far a messenger stopped me saying “Here is the next metal message.” Thanking the messenger I walked home to check out what the message said. Jominac The man who took the item of power's name is Athruu he is the mortal enamy of the old guy Donindor and the item he took is called the crown of Trillion and it has the power to control anyone's mind who the wearer wants. Of course, that is as long as he/she can see the person. We would be unable to combat this threat had Donindor told us that a long time ago another crown was created to counter the crown of Trillion and that he can link the crown to each of us with special stones that he has mounted on bracelets. With our new defenses we searched for Athruu and found some black knights along the way that were working for Athruu. We killed them except for two who we followed to their camp. Then we attacked them to get the crown back. It was a tough fight that at one point Donindor lost control of his crown and we all became under Athruu's control. It was brief though and we quickly regained control of our minds. After that problem with the crown Athruu's crown cracked and then was destroyed. We quickly defeated them after that, and after being defeated Athruu teleported away. Signing off: Dronin “If all of the items of power are that powerful than I sure hope that the Athruu does not get any others.” I mumbled. I headed out to Kilimor to see what he had found. After getting directions from a soldier I came to the warehouse that Kilimor was in. “Kilimor!” I said grinning, “What have you found?” “Ah Jominac,” Kilimor replied roughly, “We have found four places that have tunnels in them and are possible targets.” Kilimor laid out a map with four circles on it. He pointed at them and said, “These are the possible places they would steal from, do you have any suggestions?” “Yes,” I said, “They will almost definitely steal from here.” I pointed to one of the points.