Don't Obsess Over A Married Woman (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 117

Like most castles, Dieren Castle also has a dungeon underground for imprisoning prisoners.

And just as nearly all underground dungeons are, the one beneath Dieren Castle is in extremely poor condition.

No—in fact, it would be an understatement to call it merely “poor”; it is a truly dreadful and miserable place.

A dark, damp place devoid of even a single ray of light.

An abandoned tomb where undiscovered corpses still decay somewhere underground, serving as meals for carrion beetles.

The description may seem rather unsettling, but even this is a remarkably mild expression.

After all, the cellar of a fortress over a thousand years old is inevitably a place where cruel shadows—best left buried beneath history’s surface—have settled.

Commonly known as “The Gargoyle’s Oubliette.”

Originally, the term “oubliette” derives from “oblivion,” meaning “forgetfulness,” and refers to a type of solitary prison cell.

It signifies locking away a prisoner and forgetting about them entirely.

But why refer to Dieren Castle’s underground dungeon using the term for a solitary cell? There is a reason.

In truth, Dieren Castle’s underground prison is a labyrinth of such complexity that it cannot even be compared to other dungeons.

So intricate is its layout that even guards sometimes forget the very cells where they’ve imprisoned captives.

Or, occasionally, guards wandering underground without a map would vanish forever, unable to find their way back out.

Naturally, from a certain point onward, the dungeon became a place avoided not only by prisoners but even by the guards themselves.

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