"When Terence was designing the royal city, he deliberately broke the blueprints into hundreds of unrelated fragments to maintain secrecy, and assigned each fragment to a different person to design. In theory, this method was indeed very safe. However, he may have forgotten one thing."

"The Dawson family obtained fragments of the royal city's structural blueprints through various means and reconstructed the royal city using a building block method. They discovered that there were many empty 'gray' spaces in the inner palace. By reconstructing these unknown rooms and passages, we found that these places were the secret chambers and passages that Terence designed for the Holy King!"

Count Nar understood what the other person was thinking: "You mean, we can enter the inner palace through the secret passage and go directly to the king's bedroom."

"Moreover, after further exploration of the royal city, the Dawson family discovered that there are some mechanisms and hidden doors in the secret passages. Using them, we can not only prevent outsiders from entering, but also prevent those in the inner palace from leaving," Rutledge said with a smile. "Therefore, by using these designs, we can, in turn, block the guards on the outer edge and in the central area of ​​the royal city from entering the inner palace, cutting off the connection between the inside and outside of the royal city and buying us time to defeat the Holy King."

Count Nar clapped his hands and exclaimed, "That's fantastic!"

Bai Ans rolled his eyes. "There's another problem: who will be responsible for using the secret passage to kill the Holy King?"

Count Nar stroked his chin and fell silent.

Rutledge sighed. "I'll go. I've led troops and fought battles before, and I'm quite familiar with the structure of the royal city."

Bai Ans nodded with satisfaction and said, "If this surprise attack succeeds, the Dawson family will be credited first. I hereby promise that when the flag of the Silver Ring Kingdom flies over Twilight City, I will, on behalf of His Majesty, bestow upon the Dawson family the title of hereditary prince!"

Rutledge nodded slightly and thanked him in a low voice.

Provoked by the term "hereditary prince," Earl Nar suddenly declared loudly, "For the sake of the Silver Ring Kingdom, I am willing to go to the palace with Rutledge Daulson!"

Rutledge glanced at Count Nar with some surprise, then lowered his head and smiled slightly.