Author : Updating in an hour. Sorry for the delay.
Ripple!
The sound of flowing water at the bottom of the left side of the fortress echoed in the surroundings as guards patrolled the 8-meter tall walls made of stones.
Under the dark veil of the shadows and bushes, Vlad and the remaining 23 children crouched and gathered at the stream of sewage water.
"Ugh! What's with this stench? Why are we here?" asked a girl in the group.
Vlad pointed at a large pipe throwing out the wastewater.
"That… is our entrance to get inside the fortress." he iterated sternly.
"What?! Those are the sewers, filled with literal shit and piss!
You want us to go through there?" questioned a tall boy who was one of the few who passed the previous test.
"Hey, all we have been given are knives for this test.
And given our sizes, we can easily crawl through those pipes, unlike a full-grown adult.
Plus, such places are often avoided by everyone and even the maintenance workers don't like coming there.
