192 Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Two – Seeing Them Off 4yr

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The carnage and destruction wreaked upon Hardhelm Forging the next night was the talk of the capital.

Unlike earlier liberations of the dwarves, there was nothing subtle or mysterious about this. Overseers, slavemasters, and guards died in great numbers, many of them without any idea of what was happening as they did so. The facilities came crashing down, sublevels collapsed, and the whole area became a fiery hell of crushed stone, wrecked machinery, and dead strewn everywhere.

Up on the Sixth Circle, the great palatial estate of the Helmreich Family burned to the ground, taking with it centuries of their history and accumulated artworks. Most of the people got out alive, although the flames that enveloped the servant's quarters were so intense that only the finest ash was left behind, to say nothing of their indentured hyn and gnome servants. Even the deepest family vaults cracked, burned, charred, and collapsed under the inferno, and if a whole lot of the family treasury ended up missing, it was quite hard to tell amid all the destruction.

Of course, Grym, Feist, and Hazé could not be responsible for all of this, as they'd been seen riding the Wagon away from Zynozur