Episode 130. Rescue Operation (3)
Inyoung walking out of the darkness.
As soon as he heard the name Feran, Enzo prepared his attack magic. Whatever it was, he felt he had to subdue this assassin in front of him first.
“… … !”
But it was strange. The attack magic wasn’t being cast. The handcuffs that were restricting magic had already been removed when I entered the cell.
While Enzo hesitated, Rubin approached with his face covered. He lowered his body and faced Enzo.
‘He looks just like Oscar.’
It wasn’t a funny atmosphere, but it was funny to see the two people who looked so similar except for Perga’s green-dyed hair.
“I am not here to harm you. I am here to rescue you.”
Of course, it wouldn’t be accepted right away. From Enzo’s perspective, it would be like losing his good fellow prisoners and being forcibly kicked out of the safe prison.
“I am Oscar’s… no, Per’s friend.”
Rubin took off his mask and revealed his face. Enzo’s eyes trembled even more at the realization that the assassin, who he had assumed to be an adult based on his physique and voice, was actually a child.
“Are you saying you’re from Capotini?”
“Yes, he’s also Per’s roommate. I heard about the ‘Chain of Awakening’ from Per, and also about being chased by the Emperor.”
“What is that… … !”
That can’t be true.
There’s no way Perga would reveal that?
“Did you kill all the prisoners here?”
“Except one. I think I’ll need him to convince you.”
Rubin turned his head and pointed to the prisoner leaning against one wall. He was trembling and staring at me with his mouth shut.
In Enzo’s eyes, he only appeared as a poor prisoner trembling with fear.
“For your information, these are spies. They were hired to spy on you.”
“What, what did you say?”
It was a hard thing to accept.
“I think you were trying to get information about Per by constantly asking him about this and that. Isn’t that right?”
“… … .”
“It’s dangerous here. They say they’re protecting you, but that’s all a lie. Who hid you here?”
Hitan’s face came to mind, but I couldn’t dare say his name.
“Whoever that man is, he is the Emperor’s man. He is not protecting you, he is holding you back.”
It wasn’t just his cellmates who were curious about Per.
Hitan has been asking about Pere consistently. Just last night, he was making me anxious about what might happen to Capotini.
“Did you tell him that Perga Capotini was there?”
“… … .”
“You told me. But you still haven’t told me that Perga is Oscar. That’s just as I guessed.”
“How on earth do you… …?”
“They still don’t know who Per is. They just know he’s hiding in Capotini.”
“…Are you asking me to believe that now?”
Rubin shrugged.
“There is no time. If the situation becomes more urgent, I will have to knock you out and take you away. The choice is yours.”
Rubin covered his face and approached the prisoner who was still alive. The prisoner was shivering. He had seen all four of them die right before his eyes.
The moment his blocked mouth was freed, the prisoner tried to scream and call the guard, but he couldn’t.
Because Rubin’s darkness was suffocating him and wouldn’t let him go.
“Ugh, uh-uh-uh… … .”
“Let me ask you a few questions. Who ordered you to watch Enzo? And what was the price?”
There was no promise that he would spare his life if he answered. But the prisoner accepted it. He thought that telling the truth was the only way to survive.
“Chief Hitan…! He ordered me to do that. To help with the construction of E103 while continuing to ask questions. To watch him and report back to him everything I find out… … .”
Enzo limped out of his seat at the shocking words coming from someone he had previously considered a good colleague.
Rubin, who was watching the scene, added one more question.
“Enzo’s leg? Is this also your doing?”
“That, that is… … .”
Could it be my legs too? Enzo opened his eyes wide and stared at the prisoner’s lips.
Enzo was injured a month ago. It was due to a mistake by a fellow prisoner while building a gate. Now I realize that it wasn’t a mistake.
It was an injury that could have been easily resolved with healing magic, but since there was no such system in the prison, he went into physical surgery.
And from then on, Enzo continued to limp.
“Did you make my legs like this on purpose?”
“We… made a request to the director. We are worried about being in the same room as a wizard. We will do as we are told, but we are worried.”
“so?”
“I’ll plant a magic stone that limits magic in your legs… Then you can rest assured… … .”
Enzo leaned against the wall and clutched his head. He thought he had escaped, but he was now playing into their hands.
“shit!”
In the Canyon Prison, the cell containing the wizard is blocked from mana.
However, it was Warden Hitan who allowed Enzo to stay in a regular cell, saying that he was not a prisoner. He even removed the handcuffs that restricted his magic, saying that it would be uncomfortable.
Of course, Enzo couldn’t verify whether that was true. He knew that his fellow prisoners were afraid of magicians, so he didn’t even think about using magic.
But under the pretext of having surgery, you implanted a magic stone in my leg?
“Wow… Woof!”
Rubin covered the prisoner’s mouth with the rag again. Then he approached Enzo.
The moment he bent down towards his leg where the magic stone was planted, Enzo clenched his fists in caution.
“Enzo. Tell me where the magic stone on your leg is. If you don’t remove it immediately, not only will your mana be limited, but your location will be tracked.”
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“… … .”
“Just point and I’ll take care of the removal.”
Enzo is still hesitating. But.
“Ah, I found it. Just a moment.”
Rubin, who sensed the magic stone on his lower thigh, took immediate action. His ‘blood frost’, soaked in cold air, drew a line, leaving an afterglow.
There was no time to feel pain. The stitches on the surgical site were ripped side by side, and a single stone popped out.
At that moment, Enzo felt the frozen ‘Mana Ring’ quickly being released.
“Here it is.”
Enzo accepted the magic stone that Rubin handed him. He immediately began checking it.
As expected, the magic built into the magic stone was ‘Tracking’ and ‘Mana Limit’.
While in the cell, your mana was limited, and the moment you left the cell, your location was tracked.
“Don’t break it. It’s necessary to confuse tracking later.”
That was when.
Peeweeing. Peeweeing.
“hmm…….”
Rubin felt several sharp ice arrows sprout around him.
As the magic stone limiting mana was removed, Enzo cast an attack spell. All of the ice strikes were aimed at Rubin.
‘… Are you saying that you are not affected by attack magic?’
Enzo narrowed his eyes. He could lose his life at any moment, but the assassin in front of him was calm. Rather, he turned his head as if he didn’t care, and just looked out the bars.
“It’s okay so far. The guards aren’t paying attention to me.”
Enzo was sure that the assassin’s attitude was not an act.
But the most important thing still remained.
“Who are you? Do you seek the power of awakening?”
“If I wanted that power, I would have already broken the ‘Chains of Awakening’ and persuaded the remaining people.”
He wasn’t wrong. He knew where Enzo and Per were.
Swish. Swish.
The ice arrows circled around Rubin quickly, as if ready to fire at any moment.
“If you are truly the person my son trusts, you can prove it.”
Enzo thought back to the sign he had given his son. It was a sign that told him not to trust others blindly, but to let them know if there was someone he could truly trust.
If you are a person who believes in him, I will believe in him too.
“I knew it would turn out like that, Enzo.”
A mana line blossomed between the two. It was something Rubin had created.
“… … ?!”
Rubin concentrated his mind and moved his mana line. This mana line was not for casting magic, but only for drawing a specific ‘pattern’.
“It’s a bit difficult.”
Because it wasn’t a simple pattern, Rubin, who had poor mana skills, had to sweat.
And then soon.
“Okay?”
Enzo, who had checked the completed pattern, closed his eyes tightly.
At that moment, the ice arrows were fired simultaneously.
Push. Push. Push.
Not towards Rubin, but towards the prisoner behind him.
The prisoner couldn’t even scream, and died with his entire body pierced.
“You have finally made your choice, Enzo Lorenzini.”
Even if it weren’t for Enzo, he would have eventually died at Rubin’s hands. Enzo asked while looking at the fallen prisoner.
“Now answer me. Who are you? What is your identity?”
“I know you’re curious, but I can’t reveal my real identity yet. I’m also in Capotini undercover, just like Oscar. But I can tell you that our goals are the same.”
“The goal is the same?”
“To escape from the Emperor. Oh, not exactly the same. You and Per may not want to go that far, but… I want the Emperor to die.”
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“Among the renowned swordsmen… is there a family that can help me?”
Enzo asked, examining the four prisoners killed by Rubin. It wasn’t an ordinary sword that killed them.
Enzo knew that it was a trace of an auror. Although he didn’t know that the auror was Brion Auror.
“If you already know how to use Auror, that means you’ve received a lot of training.”
An illusion caused by Aura. This was also Rubin’s intention. Not only to deceive Enzo, but also to confuse the Imperial Order.
Even if the Imperial Order suspects the assassination of the Sword Master, that suspicion will subside when they encounter traces of the Auror.
If Auror is discovered, the Assassin Swordsmen will be completely removed from the list of suspects. Instead, other swordsmen will be suspected.
“Anyway, you said you’d help me, right? Then you have to kill Chief Hitan first. Otherwise, it’ll be dangerous.”
But Rubin had no intention of allowing it. It wasn’t a good idea.
“If I take you out, he will die on his own.”
I don’t know what level you are in the Imperial Department, but it would be difficult to save your life from such a blunder.
Whether you order the assassination or handle it within the Imperial Order, there is no way you will escape Rulfo’s wrath.
But that doesn’t mean we can just get away with it.
“Instead, we need to make things more difficult for him.”
“… … ?”
“There you go.”
The long-awaited Kuze appeared. He was wearing a mask like Rubin. Kuze gave a brief bow to Enzo and handed something to Rubin.
“Your Majesty, I have secured an escape route. And I have selected those trapped in the depths who could be of help.”
The paper Kuze handed over contained the cell layout of the deep-level prisoners.
An easier and more effective way than killing the Hitan commander would be to break out some of the prisoners.
“Okay. These guys could make a scene in the prison. Kuze, take Enzo and leave first. I’ll follow you.”
“Then I will wait at the incinerator.”
“okay.”
Rubin moved first, heading straight for the depths.
There was no need to be delicate in his movements. Whenever he encountered a guard, he would openly reveal his black aura and cut him down.
But I didn’t kill him. I just left it as the share of the prisoners who had suffered so far.
‘Here it is.’
The deepest part of the prison, located high up on the cliff. This was the first cell I chose.
Rubin safely shattered the hidden attack magic and clung to the bars.
A huge body shrouded in darkness.
A man with a physique that could be called a monster breathes roughly.
Phew.
The cell floor shook slightly with his breathing.
“hey.”
At Rubin’s call, two eyes appeared, tearing through the darkness. Just their gazes radiated a cold aura.
“I just broke the door down halfway. You can figure out the rest, right?”
“Is this a riot?”
A thick, yet somehow distant voice comes through the bars.
Rubin chuckled. The laughter was hidden by the mask, but it was eerie, almost as if he was laughing along, even from inside the cell.
“The riot is your job. I’m busy taking out two more guys.”
“Wait a minute, who are you?”
When the first-class prisoner in the cell approached the bars, dragging his chain, he realized that the person he had been talking to until just now had disappeared.
The prisoner grabbed the bars with his huge hands. The door was indeed half broken.
“Kukuk.”
Suddenly, what a stroke of luck this is. With that thought in mind, the prisoner looked outside through the bars for a moment.
A masked man showing strange movements. He was already breaking down another cell door.
“That’s right… … .”
Finally, I can release the anger that was trapped inside. I can’t help but laugh. The prisoner, with the corners of his mouth close to his ears, took action without hesitation.
By the time Rubin headed to the incinerator, the Canyon Prison had fallen into chaos beyond anyone’s control.
