019. Action

Vibration and noise, cracks and unstable mana waves.

The prison guards’ minds are distracted, and the noise and unstable mana consumes everything.

It is true that the best environment has been created for jailbreaking.

But if there’s one blind spot, it’s that what prisoners know, the warden and guards know too.

And prison guards had many things they could do compared to prisoners.

Prison is a controlled place. Prisoners live controlled lives.

Prison is a natural place for that, but everyone longs for freedom. When I am running, I want to walk; when I am walking, I want to stand.

I want to escape from the oppression of prison and I want to do more.

Untimely inspections were one of the means to manage such prisoners.

No matter how tightly controlled you are, you cannot keep prisoners completely under your control. Ordinary prisons are like that, but what about purgatory made up of warriors?

Unlike prisoners in regular prisons who have a set date of release, prisoners in Purgatory do not have a deadline. That’s why they yearn for more freedom and prepare for a prison break.

“Everybody come out!”

All the cell doors were opened. Prisoners who were eating dinner without knowing anything were led out by the hands of prison guards.

“Let’s line up.”

He forced himself against the wall and buried his head. In the meantime, prison guards enter the room and find the object in question.

“Keugh…! Let go of this!”

“Be quiet.”

Kang Min-shik, who had been suppressed even more violently by his rough struggles, regained some composure at the voice of Derkain.

“Derkain? What is this?”

“It’s a swordsman. It is the process of checking whether or not the prisoners have brought any unauthorized items into Purgatory.”

“What is that…!”

“Honestly, I kind of expected it.”

Derkhain laughed bitterly.

He gave the dwarves a workshop. Time passed just like that. The movement of the world tree is creating all sorts of variables.

If no action is taken in this situation, the warden is not qualified as a warden.

If he had been the warden, he would have made the same choice.

“Are you expecting?”

“There’s no way the warden built a studio and didn’t take any action.”

“then···.”

Do you have any alternatives? Kang Min-sik, who was about to ask, shut his mouth. Right behind him, the guards were turning on the lights in their eyes. It’s not a conversation worth having in front of them.

In the meantime, prison guards found illegal imports.

Illegal items piled up in the hallway. There weren’t too many of them, and most of them were really minor things.

The deputy director gave a disapproving look. There was nothing that could be said to be necessary for a jailbreak.

“Is this really all? Even now, to be honest, there is room for extenuating circumstances.”

“I don’t know why you are looking at me.”

“It is a coincidence.”

The deputy director shrugged and gave the order again.

“The prisoners are put back in the prison and the studio is also searched. Check to see if there are any items other than those requested by the warden.”

“Yes!”

Prisoners entered the room. The door was closed and the hallway was empty except for two guards on watch.

And when the next day came, Dercain realized something was amiss.

“A meal.”

Even the breakfast brought by Soji and Werner was the same. However, no matter how much time passed, it was not time for mental training. I couldn’t even go to the workshop to repair the purgatory.

“Have all the schedules been canceled?”

“They told me not to let the prisoners out of the room for the time being because it was unstable due to the world tree.”

“How long?”

“I do not know. We’ve been talking for about five days.”

long. too long. In five days, the movement of the world tree would be completely finished. Then the opportunity you so longed for disappears.

“What is the warden doing?”

“I don’t really know, except that I go to the World Tree every day. In the first place, other than when eating, he hardly ever calls me.”

It wasn’t bad news that the warden’s nerves were focused on the world tree. That was also the biggest reason that made me think that now is the right time to break out.

The warden is paying more attention to the world tree than necessary. It’s probably because the elves are anxious, but if you’re distracted by that, this is good.

The problem is that you can’t do anything while you’re stuck here.

There was nothing in the solitary cell because everything was put away in preparation for the sword room.

“Ah, come to think of it, the elves are still attending the gardening class.”

“The elves?”

I guessed roughly what kind of picture it was. Unlike others, young plants are sensitive to environmental changes. It must be all the more so since the World Tree is emitting unstable mana. If the elves were not touched, there was a high possibility that he would die, so even as a warden, he would have had no choice.

And that was a ray of light from Derkain’s point of view.

* * *

Late at night, the moonlight may be shining outside, but not a single light leaks out of the confined cell.

Only the magic lights that never go out dimly illuminate the lonely room.

Dercain carefully opened the ration port and stuck out his head.

The empty, hallways were dreary. I didn’t feel particularly popular. Looking to the left and right, there was only one room in which the distribution port was not closed.

“Are you sleeping?”

“I don’t catch.”

Even with a small whisper, the answer came right away.

“Sorry for the late hour. I told you to keep it open because I wanted to ask you something.”

“What is?”

“It’s during the sword fighting. I hope you didn’t find out.”

No matter how small it is, the search by the guards is quite tight. Derkine was surprised that Kang Min-sik didn’t use the amplifier he gave him.

All the warriors might have their own ways, but wasn’t Kang Min-sik unaware of the existence of the sword room itself?

“I put it in my mouth.”

“You should have checked the inside of your mouth too?”

“There is a space inside the molars that originally hid dogdom. I put it there. The size is very small, so I squeezed it in and somehow it worked. There is no way mana will leak out because it has a magic block mark engraved on it.”

It’s selfish in the molars. Derkhain laughed bitterly.

“You’ve had a rough life too.”

“In the world I lived in, there were no superhumans, so I just worked harder.”

Even if you received the power of the hero, it is not strong from the beginning. The strength of a warrior is just the power to remove the limits so that you can break through the given karma after all.

He became a warrior because of his talent, but when he was just summoned, Kang Min-shik was too weak.

“It’s not really suicide. Rather, it was a trump card.”

“That’s right. I managed to hide it with a trump card and escaped the punishment room.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Kang Min-sik did not deny his words.

“That’s just what I’m saying.”

lower your voice even more.

“Thanks to you, I succeeded. I can release the restraints.”

“…!”

He talked about a real trump card.

* * *

What the prisoners know, the warden knows.

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Just as Dercain believed that the movement of the World Tree was the right time to break out, the warden thought the same.

The warden canceled all appointments and locked up the prisoners. Prisoners could not leave their rooms.

But not all.

For Youngcho, the elves had to go out to work as gardeners. It would have been an inevitable choice even as a director. Youngcho is like a sunfish, so if you don’t pay attention to it, it will die quickly.

Derkhain pulled out the communicator.

A sphere with extremely limited messages that can be sent instead of consuming a very small amount of mana.

The prison guards are sensitive to mana, so they can’t use it for a while.

[at the time. Sugar content.]

The time has come.

The escape plan wasn’t only made by the Dwarves and the prisoners. From dwarves, beasts, and elves to dark elves and even giants. All prisoners have joined, and all must cooperate.

Therefore, coordination of plans with the elves was absolutely necessary.

No, beyond simple coordination, he desperately needed the help of the elves.

[I. stop.]

However, Dercain doubted his own eyes at the answer that came back.

I speak of Siena herself without the need for interpretation.

stop. But how should I interpret this? stop communicating? No, no. It’s a short word, but it’s not difficult to understand. I just don’t want to understand

I will stop jailbreaking.

“why?”

It was a variable that the old dwarf had never thought of.

simply not self Siena Olms represent the elven prisoners. The fact that she gave up on escaping meant that the other elves did the same.

it’s a variable That’s an incredibly bad variable.

Even more so in the current situation where we have to rely on the elves for everything.

“why···?”

Escape from purgatory cannot be achieved alone. It is a monumental tower that all prisoners must build up little by little as one.

That’s 15 years. After enduring that long period of patience, it is now on the verge of bearing fruit.

[situation. excreta.]

Things have changed. what has changed

Actually, a lot has changed. The High Elf, the spiritual support of the elves, came in and the world tree sprouted. Because it is a prison, it cannot be expressed openly, but if it were an ordinary world, it would be a huge cataclysm for the elves.

[Yulia? world tree?]

“Is it because of Julia Karsen? Or is it because of the world tree?”

Maybe it could be both.

[all.]

Also. The answer was not at all different from Dercain’s expectations.

However, it was not something I would like if it did not deviate from my expectations.

He doesn’t know what the high elves and the World Tree mean to elves.

He is a dwarf and knows the world tree as a great tree, but he does not know its value beyond that.

So I didn’t understand. Is that enough to give up the escape he prepared for 15 years?

Is it to the extent of abandoning the prisoners together?

[Give up. All together.]

“Absolutely not. If you give up, we all perish.”

[sorry. but.]

I’m sorry, but I still can’t.

What kind of irresponsible word is this?

Suddenly, Dercain felt anger towards the elves rising. But the patience he had cultivated in purgatory for so many years managed to keep his emotions in check.

[do not know. world tree. important.]

[Listen. guesswork.]

“I don’t know what the World Tree means to you. But I have heard how much you value them.”

[World Tree. jailbreak. Give up.]

[purpose. what?]

“What is it? Yulia Carsen, what are the high elves trying to accomplish by sacrificing even the world tree, which is so precious, and giving up your prison break!”

I knew it wasn’t just a jailbreak. But is it really worth the jailbreak?

However, the answer to his deep anger was overly simple.

[I can say.]

I can not say.

But the message did not end there.

[Jailbreak. not possible Cooperation. possible.]

[Most. possible.]

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Jailbreak is impossible, but cooperation is possible.

I will do my best to help as much as possible.

Only then did the flame that had risen in Derkain’s chest cool down.

Fortunately, I didn’t completely let go. If so, there is still a possibility. Even though it’s not as good as being together from start to finish.

[Anymore. circumstances.]

“Now that you’ve said that, I won’t ask any more. There must be a situation that only elves have.”

I wanted to shout, “Why are you abandoning the prisoners who prepared together for 15 years because of the situation, but I endured it?”

Right now, the help of the elves is needed more than anything else.

[situation. Recognition?]

“Are you aware of the current situation?”

[Recognition.]

Know.

[help. desperately.]

“I desperately need help from the elves.”

[Liberation.]

“Free us from solitary confinement.”

There are two things that must be preceded by a jailbreak.

One is to escape from solitary confinement, and the other is to release restraints.

[when?]

when?

[World Tree. move. when?]

“How long does the movement of the world tree last?”

[Five days at most. Four days now.]

Five days at most. A day has passed, now it is four days.

You have two options. One that takes place while the movement of the World Tree continues, and one that takes place right after it ends.

There are pros and cons. The former is that the prison guards’ surveillance has become stricter instead of the warden’s attention being focused on the World Tree, and the latter is that the warden is released and the surveillance will be weaker than now. And being able to pierce that loophole.

But it also has its drawbacks. How much interest does the warden have in the World Tree? According to Soji, it keeps guarding the side of the World Tree, but that itself could be a trap.

[Intestine. world tree. which?]

“What does the world tree mean to you?”

[well.]

I do not know.

limited information. You have to make a choice within it.

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Jailbreaking is a gamble after all. Prison guards don’t go to work. The warden also does not leave prison. Purgatory is always ready to take prisoners.

In the end, time only talks about the moment when the surveillance is a little loose, but it can’t be the perfect moment when everything disappears.

[Tomorrow. dinner.]

“Tomorrow evening.”

That’s why Derkhain chose.

Now that the warden’s interest is going elsewhere.

To put the prisoners in solitary confinement so that they can’t even talk to each other, and to poke holes in the guards who would be relieved.

[Decision.]

“We’ll get out of this damn place.”

After all, he had no back.