Tyranny of Steel

Deep within the heart of Catalonia, there was a young woman of Visigothic descent who dressed from head to toe in dark attire. The night had fallen over the sky of Collbato, and with it, the woman could finally get close to her target.

As the War for German Unification was underway, King Felipe of Spain took it as an opportunity to infiltrate Austria ’s suspicious mine deep within his Kingdom ’s territory. As part of the Treaty of Aquitaine that he had signed with Berengar and Hasan, the man had given over the mining rights of the area to the Austrian Crown.

As far as Felipe was aware, nothing of importance lied within the region, and despite that, Austria ’s mining companies seemed to move a suspicious amount of mysterious product from the area of Collbato to the shores of Gibraltar, where an Austrian Naval base currently existed.

Despite Felipe ’s best attempts, he could not discover just what was being mined in the area known as Collbato. Now that his enemy focused his attention elsewhere, the Spanish king could finally infiltrate the area. With this in mind, the King of Spain dispatched his greatest spy to the mines to uncover what secrets Austria was hiding from him.

The woman known by the name of Cecilia de Penafiel lied in wait for the precise moment that the Austrian guards would change their shift. Over the past week, she had examined the patrols from afar, and was now intimately familiar with their schedule. At exactly midnight, the guards on watch for the night packed up their things and brought in the newest patrol.

Thus, the woman took the chance to dash through the fields and into the entrance of the mine, where she ensured she remained unseen. Having successfully infiltrated the mine ’s entrance, the spy quickly descended its shafts, desperately searching for any sign of what treasure Austria had uncovered within the caverns.