Everyone except Yorik moved over to the box, as he was going to go secure that knocked out kobold. Everyone had their weapons at the ready when the box burst open and it was Cera. "Whoa! What are you guys doing here?" Cera, Kor, and Shor climbed out from the box, and pushing it aside it revealed a manhole that lead to the sewers. Or at least something that smells like the sewers. Shor looked at the party and Yorik with a bit of frustration, but let out a sigh. "Well... On one hand, I thought I told you Yorik not to let them get wrapped up in the investigation." The orc just smirked as he dragged the bodies into a pile. "Heh. Ya said don't let em into the sewers ta help ya boss. Well dis time, dey were just wif me on patrol. And I don't mean no disrespect by going against da will of yer order, but if dey weren't ere with me just a few seconds ago, we wouldn't be talkin." Yorik raises his tunic and shows the wounds on his body, which were still bloody though no longer lethal.

Not a few seconds later Dimos also came out from the sewers looking a bit worse for ware. He had a blacken eye and a couple of cuts on his body. He seemed genuinely surprised to see all of you here. "What... What are you all doing here? And... Are those more kobolds?" He seemed very worried while Cera looked to the group and briefly explained what was going on. "Last night we received intel that Erandal knew that we were on his trail. He planned to leave as soon as possible and had already started removing any evidence of his crimes. Originally we had thought it was just corruption, but sure enough he is involved with the cult of Elysium. Dimos however was able to witness a very important transaction between Erandal and some Elysium cultists, who we've already arrested. But one of the cultists were killed by kobold assassins, and that's when we figured that Dimos was not save in Underhaven. We sent Yorik to the surface in order to give the assassins the impression that Dimos was not protected, and that's when they fell into our trap. But sure enough, the kobolds had many more assassins, so we needed to escape by other means. Thankfully the friendly Sewer Dragons showed us this exit while we were running from the assailants."

Hearing this Shortfang looked very worried. "But what about Sewer Dragons? What about family!?" Kor looked at the good kobold and shook his head. "I didn't want to leave them to fight our battles either. But the their elder said that they would protect us as long as we can keep moving. Even the renegaded kobolds didn't want to fight the Sewer Dragons, they were only after us." Shor nods solemnly. "Your people protected us Shortfang, and for that we won't forget it. But enough talk. We need to get Dimos out of here before more assassins find us. We can take him to the Temple of the Maker where he'll be safe as long as he stays on holy ground." Pylia bit her lip hearing this. She just sighed and looked to you. "Unlike in Cassari, the Temple of the Maker here in Gransys is much more powerful. There's a spell encompassing the entire area that prevents violence from happening. Only a very strong willed person can break through the ward and those who try won't have it easy either, especially not while the paladins are there. So... He will be safe there. But it won't come free, you do realize that Shor?" The dwarf nodded. "Don't worry. A deacon there owes me a favor, so I'm calling it in. Once Dimos is safe we'll reconvene and find a way to stop these assassins and get Erandal for his crimes."