Hello and a very belated Happy New Year. Here's the next chapter of the Phantom Thief; enjoy.
"…I have to break into Hyrule Castle and steal from the king's treasury…" said the phantom thief of Kakariko, "After all, the more I steal from the king, the richer I become while the king becomes poorer. If I steal just the right amount, I will be just as rich as our king!"
With that, our phantom thief began to learn all he could learn about the lay and build of Hyrule's Royal Castle. Being now the head of Hyrule's mason's guild, our phantom thief could look at plans no one else would ever see.
Plans that detailed how everything in the Hyrule was build.
He soon made an important discovery: Hyrule Castle had an underground treasure chamber, and only one set of stairs led down to it. However, adjacent to that treasure room run a tunnel. A sewage tunnel. One of Hyrule Castle's sewage tunnels. Which were connected to the sewage tunnels of Hyrule Castletown!
The Phantom Thief of Kakariko rolled up the scrolls he needed.
"Let us go and see that bend…"
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"I do not like this…" mumbled our young mason-thief nervously as he made his way through the dark, dank tunnel, lantern held high. After much underground travel he finally reached the tunnel that would lead him to Hyrule's treasury.
As a mason, he passed a critical eye over the walls.
"I do not like this… there is no question; this is one of the lowest tunnels! The ones that collect and completely fill with rain water during heavy rains! Thank the golden three it is a dry, sunny day this day; one could easily drown here long before he finds his way out!"
Nonetheless, despite his worries, the phantom thief of Kakariko ventured on.
"Well… here we are at last…! This should be the bend!" And with that he began to inspect the wallstones.
Soon he smiled.
"This' not as bad as I first thought!" said the phantom thief as he continued to inspect the lowest of the wallstones; the lowest cornerstone, "Being in bend and in the dirty water all these years has washed and wearied much of the mortar away! Were this stone not so big, and heavier than a man, I'd bet it'd be loose!"
With that our young phantom thief stood up.
"This can be done! All I need are the right tools…"
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It turned that loosening the big stone out to be much more work than our mason-thief first thought.
"Blast it! Demise take the thing!" cursed the phantom thief of Kakariko as he carefully chipped away at the mortar. He took great pains not to damage the stone itself in any way; which had brought him many days more of hard work in that dark dank tunnel.
"By Farore… if it turns out this' the wrong tunnel and nothing lies behind this stone I will fling myself into Death Mountain!"
Finally, one night, after a good number of days full of more hard work, the phantom thief of Kakariko had chipped away all the mortar that had held the big cornerstone in place. With quite a bit of difficulty, the phantom thief pulled the heavy stone out for its place.
Behind it lay indeed some room, but our mason-thief could not see what lay within.
Carefully he peaked in.
Cautiously he crept inside.
Warily he pulled his lantern behind him.
And found himself in a big room full of shelves and chests. Choosing a small chest on a shelf close to the entrance, the phantom thief of Kakariko expertly picked the lock, a skill he had picked up as a thief.
Lo and behold, the chest was filled to the brim with green rupees.
The phantom thief smiled and closed the chest again. Then he opened another, and this one was filled with blue rupees. Yet another held only red ones.
The phantom thief closed the last chest, then crawled out of the treasure room, without taking a single rupee, then pushed the cornerstone back where it had stood before and sealed the gaps with some weak mortar that could easily be chipped away again.
"I have now a way in… now I must plan when and how to haul away all these treasures…"
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