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“What if not?”

The answer came without a moment’s thought. Yulia’s expression did not change.

“Can you swear by the world tree?”

“Why should I?”

“Maybe I can be of some help to you.”

“Didn’t you tell number 1177 that he would cooperate only if he brought a clear clue?”

“Interference through the World Tree is absolutely certain. You already have enough.”

“Do you want to jailbreak?”

“Do I really need an answer?”

“No.”

random words. Derkhain realized that this was the first answer to his question.

“No?”

“Yeah.”

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Julia turned her back.

“I’ll just go. The guards are paying too much attention.”

“I don’t swear it’s not.”

“Because it’s not right to profusely swear to the mother tree like that.”

It wasn’t exactly wrong. But why does it sound like a simple skin tone?

“I know. But don’t you know that it’s a warden?”

“You may or may not know.”

I already guessed that I knew roughly.

The proof is that the seeds of the World Tree were cheered so much but not yet planted, and that something was done by interfering with the seeds.

Well, even when she thought about it, her behavior was suspicious. I thought that the seed of the world tree would dispel all doubts, but it was not enough.

“That’s not what’s important.”

The warden did something to the world tree, but I don’t know exactly what it was. Julia sighed.

She pulled the cart and disappeared.

Derkain, who was left alone, poked his head out toward the distribution port.

Both distribution outlets are closed. Instructors are distant. No one heard this conversation.

He had already checked before Yulia came, but he leaned his back against the wall, relieved once more.

“Only two more prisoners came in, but Satan must be strong too.”

A high elf who sacrificed the seed of the World Tree to escape from prison and the one who endured the pain of the punishment room.

It was like two huge typhoons.

When the typhoon reaches its peak, the prison will face a storm.

And the mess will give him and the other prisoners a chance.

certainly.

his eyes were shining

* * *

There are many ways to control mana.

And among the many methods, the restraints wrapped around Kang Min-sik’s neck were tenacious, brutal, and complex.

‘The spell is complicatedly twisted. And yet organic.’

The defense system is also solid. At least in a situation where magic is being controlled like now, it can never be solved.

However, Kang Min-sik was not discouraged. Difficulties of this magnitude were foreseen. And humans are a species that uses tools in bondi.

If you don’t have enough mana, you just need to find something to supplement your mana.

And this prison had such a facility.

‘Gardening class.’

A place to grow plants. There are also multiple elixirs there. I haven’t been there myself, but since Dercain did, it won’t be wrong.

But the question is, how do you get there? It’s already been over a month since I was trapped in Purgatory, and all of the outgoing missions during that time were from the environmental preparation team.

Undoubtedly, meaningless logging. The number of trees he cut down is too many to count.

The flow of thoughts is blocked. Kang Min-sik scratched his head and lay down on the bed. I saw the now familiar black ceiling.

If you just say it’s hard and ask for a change, would you change it?

No, he shook his head.

It didn’t take long, but I got a rough idea of the warden’s personality. The guy is a green frog. Prisoners never get what they want.

On the contrary, it is not so clumsy that you can be easily deceived by saying that it is twisted once.

Then, lightning flashed in his head. The possessed helper came to mind.

Prisoner number 1178, Julia Karsen.

An elf who took the second possession position where everyone was negative.

If she said that if there was no reason to choose her, she would just make it, wouldn’t she know how?

“We can make a deal.”

“You mean a deal?”

“Yeah. I don’t know what you want, but the warden can give you something to tempt.”

“But there’s nothing I can give you…”

“I thought it was strange that it was a camera, but wouldn’t the director feel that way too? The function itself is the same as the record ball, but it doesn’t require mana, but I’ve never seen it work.”

“No, that’s…”

Yuliana is only surprising to those who have not experienced modern and contemporary civilization. In particular, the warden is from the same district as him, Korea.

Rather than being surprised, wouldn’t they snort and put them in the punishment room for illegal imports? The punishment room was not scary, but it was unlikely.

“Or how about something else? Seeing as you came in hiding something called a camera, there must be other things.”

“I do, but…”

Are there any of them that will satisfy the warden?

“Then I’ll sleep. sorry. I am particularly tired today.”

“no. Have a nice night.”

Shik, the ration door in the next room closed. Kang Min-sik also closed distribution outlets. A quiet silence prevailed.

‘I do have one.’

I took care of one, but one is not enough. It would be fortunate if it was lifted at once, but Kang Min-sik knew his skills well.

In order to fully understand and unlock the structure of this complex spell, several challenges are required, and of course the required mana and elixir increase.

‘Something the warden might be tempted to do.’

If you can get Korean dramas and play them in class for mental education, it’s not like you can’t save the earth’s culture.

It makes no sense that the warden, who is not even a prisoner in the first place, cannot get out of prison.

Kang Min-sik’s worries deepened.

* * *

“So you want to do business with me?”

“Yes.”

Tak-tak, Kim Woo-jin tapped the table with his fingers.

A month had passed since Kang Min-sik came to Purgatory, and it was time for his personal interview.

Kim Woo-jin’s first question was ‘Do you have a desire to leave the prison?’ and his answer was ‘I want to make a deal.’

back and forth don’t match A completely different answer came to the question.

“What deal?”

“Environmental staff is fed up. I want you to send it to another place.”

I didn’t like the request any more.

It seems that he has been too lenient towards prisoners lately. or quit

Maybe I let the high elves loose too much. But the seed of the world tree was worth it.

“If you ask, should I let you go?”

“I know it is not. That’s why I said a deal.”

“transaction? As a prisoner, do you have any elements to make a deal with me?”

“there is.”

“Did you bring something?”

Kang Min-sik did not answer. that was the answer

“…The convoy is doing shit these days.”

Like Yulia, how did she keep hiding things? Kim Woo-jin sighed deeply.

“Strictly speaking, it is not a carry-on.”

“What do you mean?”

“You know that not all warriors are the same.”

“therefore?”

“Since we are all Koreans, I will liken it to a game. By profession, I am a thief. He specializes in stealth, is fast, and handles traps well.”

“therefore?”

“But isn’t there one more thing you can’t leave out if you are a thief? poison.”

Poison and thieves are inextricably linked.

“One of my abilities is to poison blood.”

“So now…”

“I will give you my blood. It is an extremely poisonous poison that surpasses all kinds of poison.”

Kang Min-shik bit his finger. After drinking all the coffee, dark red blood dripped into the empty cup.

Even without checking, I could tell that it was extreme reading.

“Yeah, all good. I can’t tell you to drain all the blood and bring it back. You didn’t bring it in, it’s good that your blood is poison, and it’s good that you used poison as a trade item, but there’s one big error here.”

Kim Woo-jin scratched the back of his head.

“Do you think I will need this?”

Poison is not a very useful thing. Unless it’s to kill someone.

“Isn’t it? I heard that you like poison…”

“Who? I?”

“I heard that you eat without removing the Kraken’s poison.”

“Yes, I know who told you.”

Kim Woo-jin hummed. He picked up a teacup full of dark red blood and handed it to the deputy director.

“Keep this in a glass jar. Because I have to feed 1176.”

“Yes.”

“great. No. 1177. Once I received the goods, I will grant your request.”

“thank you! thank you!”

“You will go to the barn.”

“···ah.”

“why? Don’t you like it?”

“no. good.”

“Take him.”

“Yes.”

Kang Min-shik disappeared. The deputy director who took the poison asked.

“Why did you do that? There is a strong possibility that he got the clue for jailbreak.”

“I sent you that.”

“What are you talking about?”

“The punishment room.”

It was not a big deal, but it was quite surprising that he endured the 2 punishment room.

Kim Woo-jin didn’t like that. That there are people who are trying to get out of the mold of the prison they created.

That he is trying to play outside, not within the boundaries he has set.

“There is a saying to remove even the horns at once. To make them do wrong quickly without wasting time and send them to the 3rd punishment room as soon as possible.”

Can Kang Min-sik survive the 3rd punishment room? If you can’t stand it, it’s over there. Just a bit of an odd prisoner.

But even if you endure, this is right. After all, the result is predestined. If a problem doesn’t arise, you can check it quickly and feel relieved, and if it does, take action quickly.

“Then can’t you just put them in the punishment room?”

“You have to do something wrong to be penalized, and you have to be punished to be sent to the punishment room.”

You can do whatever you want if you want to. But I didn’t really want to.

“We have to keep the minimum duty.”

Because they are not really guilty.

Kim Woo-jin’s eyes sank coldly.

* * *

“…Uh, so.”

‘Are you saying this is a barn?’ Kang Min-sik swallowed the last words.

The barn he thought belonged to the earth. A place to raise and catch cows, pigs, chickens, etc.

I thought it was a place where the food the prisoners ate came out.

Of course, the place where the meat that the prisoners eat came out was right. But it wasn’t Earth.

“Everything that comes to the barn for the first time is so surprised. And throw up.”

“I guess that makes sense.”

The barn was divided into two zones.

One is water and the other is land.

And living on it were monsters, not animals.

Monsters of the sea, and monsters of the land.

Even without telling them, they could guess what kind of reaction they would have if they knew that what they had been eating was not beasts but monsters.

“But you are surprisingly calm, aren’t you?”

“I also ate poisonous insects or poisonous monsters to develop my poison.”

“You’re the type whose abilities increase through predation. Then the stomach will be fine.”

“It’s relatively good.”

“The most difficult thing when working at a livestock farm is those with weak stomachs. He would have killed all kinds of evil, but how much he made a fuss about this being different.”

The elf and Sienna snorted as if they were laughing.

As the class president of the congratulatory hall, she guided Kang Min-sik, a newcomer.

“At least you won’t be a burden.”

“By the way, Siena-sama. Aren’t you from the environmental preparation group?”

“Originally, it is here. It was moved temporarily by the warden who thought cutting down the forest would be more painful for me.”

But this time, it was restored again with Kang Min-sik. Maybe it’s because they think it doesn’t work.

It didn’t happen once or twice, so I didn’t care too much.

“But was the second punishment room really tolerable?”

“Yeah. It was a bit difficult at first, but I got used to it.”

“Indeed, Dercain was right.”

“Yeah?”

“It is nothing. It’s the first time I’ve ever had a kid like you, so it’s all because it’s amazing.”

“Yeah.”

Elves and humans went further inside. As they did so, stronger monsters appeared.

Kang Min-sik swallowed dry saliva without realizing it.

All he wanted was a gardening class. This is because the barn was considered simply a place to catch animals.

It was a stupid idea. If the horticulture class is to grow all kinds of elixirs, it’s only natural that the barn is special.

‘There are not only monsters but also spirit creatures.’

And for monsters that are above a reasonable level, for spirit creatures.

‘There is an insider.’

or nucleus.

Although the purity is inferior to that of elixirs from plants, it was possible to cover that much.

Kang Min-shik’s eyes lit up.

* * *

Kim Woo-jin stood in an empty garden.

Opposite of where the convicts are logging and not too far from the prison building. The surroundings are full of dense trees.

At first, I tried to plant it away from the garden, but I decided that it was better to take care of it closely and like it.

When I snapped my fingers, part of the ground rose into the air. The resulting pit is approximately 5 m.

Kim Woo-jin took out the seed of the World Tree. It was still resonating with his mana and fawning.

I added the seeds and 29 surplus elixirs from the gardening class.

It is difficult to meet the delivery amount of 10 units per month. What remains of surplus production is all the more so.

The fact that there are only 29 elixirs collected over 20 years represents that. With this, all the elixirs he had collected since becoming warden were exhausted.

They say that time will solve the problem without adding an elixir, but Kim Woo-jin was human. Like the high elves, he had no desire to enjoy leisure time.

Cover with soil and compact lightly.

“Grow up as a being that all elves worship. Whatever you say, obey it.”

And order to leave.

The world tree is nothing short of a divine being to the elves, so it’s not entirely possible.

“Since there are 6 elves, if all go out…”

The idea of getting rid of the troublesome elves was fun. Seeing the vague hope, Kim Woo-jin smiled pleasantly.