Chapter 87: Chapter 87: The trade-off

They walked down dark corridors, having to double back every time they hit a dead end. Finally, they reached a well-lit chamber with a wounded ogre in the middle.

They pulled out their weapons and were just about to charge, when the ogre looked at them with fear in his eyes.

"Don't kill me! I came in here for my child," the adventurers stopped in their tracks.

"How did you fight your way in?" Jean asked. The lions and Norrix had been starving, but there were no way they had let the ogre pass them without a fight.

"I have an invisibility ring. It is yours, if you get my son and I out of here," the ogre showed them a ring. A thin silver band with a single pearl encrusted in it.

"Are you from a tribe?" Leander asked. He needed to know if this was a trick.