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“Hrrrgh.”

The man wrapped in black bandages groans intermittently. It was not the groaning of pain, but the strange sound of groaning.

Hyun-seok examined him for a moment. The black bandaged man stands still and does not move a muscle.

His appearance is all over the place, locked in darkness. Hyun-seok clears the dark stones nearby. It looks like we need to get rid of any darkness filled in here.

Black bandaged humans wouldn't move until the stone cleared out the dark stone near the iron bars, and sometimes only moaning.

“Hrrrgh.”

The stone gradually approaches him and clears out the dark stones. I was able to put all the dark stones inside the container box, except around the black bandaged man.

Hyun-seok approached him. I checked the name in my mind, but nothing came up.

It means you can't see it at the level of stone.

“Hmmm. How did you get in here? ”

Hyun-seok looks at him with surprised eyes. A red glow emanates from the black bandaged human eye.

His words were neither Korean nor English. It was a very unusual language. It didn't seem like the language of the world.

Surprisingly, Hyun-seok knew the words. I don't know when it came in, but the knowledge of the language was already in the head of the string.

Thinking about it, Hyundai has never had difficulties with language problems until now.

I spoke English very naturally even in the United States. Even reading the documents in English was not a problem.

I didn't think much of it then, but now that I think about it, it was definitely strange.

I've never studied a foreign language before.

It was strange, but it wasn't a problem to solve right now. We need to take care of it from now on.

“Who are you? ”

Hyun-seok asked in the same language. I remembered the name of the language is Empire.

"Imperial. Where is that?" ’

I don't know what kind of empire it is, but right now, that bandaged man and his own words are the Empire language.

“I asked first. How did you get in here? ”

“I walked in the door. How did you get in here? ”

“You opened the door? It must have been locked.”

Hyun-seok nods. Transparent dungeons, dungeon entrances, and this cage.

But it's all open. Opening this was not difficult at all.

“I opened the lock. It's time to answer my question. Who are you?”

But the Band-Aid didn't answer the question. I was surprised by his tone.

“You opened the lock? Did you break the magic pattern? It's a prison. It's a very complicated security system. ”

“Somehow I said it was complicated. But it wasn't that hard. ”

I was solving a much harder subspace magic pattern, but it couldn't have been that hard.

Solving subspace has not been successful, but it was also a matter of time. Sooner or later, it will be over.

Hyun-seok suddenly thought that he was focusing more on other things than leveling up.

But what does that mean? It is better to develop special abilities in this way than level up by mere hunting in vain.

‘You can always level up with Rainbow Elixir later. ’

Hyun-seok looked at the bandaged man with that thought inside. The red light from his eyes is shaking violently.

He could just tell that it was expressing a feeling of surprise.

“Is that how you opened this cage? How did you get past the darkness in here? ”

The bandaged man had a lot of questions. Hyun-seok replied unequivocally.

“I removed all the dark stones. It wasn't that hard to solve the magical pattern. ”

In fact, it was difficult, but Hyundai was a bit bluffing. Somehow I felt it had to be. And I wanted to see that bandaged man continue to be amazed.

“Remove the Dark Stone? ”

The bandaged man looks around and nods.

“That's why it's around here. Would you mind clearing out the dark stones near me? I don't feel so good because the dark forces keep seeping in. ”

Hyun-seok didn't do that. I was reluctant to go near where he was standing and bend over and pick up the Dark Stone.

“I'll take it if I need it later. ”

“Ambitious.”

“You don't trust each other, do you? And how many people in prison think they're innocent? ”

“I want you to know that being in prison doesn't make you a sinner. ”

“But you don't know if you will or not, do you? ”

“I'm sure. Now I have to introduce myself. ”

Hyundai shined his eyes and triggered his mind to its fullest. You can't read the other person's information, but at least you have to figure out if he's lying.

The magic of the stone wraps around the bandaged man.

Hyun-seok examined the bandaged human with all his magical powers and all his senses in his heart.

“What an unusual human being. You don't have to do that. Because I only tell the truth. No, do I have to say it? I am a lie. ”

Hyun-seok frowned. What the hell does that mean? The existence itself is a lie. And what truth does the false existence tell us?

“Think of it as a reaction. Because existence is a lie, you only tell the truth. Well... It doesn't matter if you don't believe. ”

Hyun-seok nods his head inside. I decided not to believe it.

“Let me introduce myself again. I'm Kettler, the head of the Arphor Knights. ”

“Arphor?”

I remember seeing the word "arphor" a while ago. It was the new name that appeared in the description when I obtained the artifact called The Eye of Arphor.

“Do you know Arphor? It's the name of a bird from the highest place in the world. ”

“What a legend. ”

“Of course. Arphor's a bird that's been in the sky for thousands of years. Can it really exist?" If there is one, it is God. ”

After all, the Arphor Knights were more likely to be as powerful or at the heart of power as they were named after such a god.

"Knights, by the way? ’

I thought it was a bit strange to check the invisible dungeon one by one. But I thought it might be that the place called the Empire has been divided into pieces.

‘Then they did it on purpose? What kind of technology is that? ’

Maybe it's a magic based technology.

“Our Arphor Knights follow only the Emperor's orders. ”

The words "emperor" sparkled my eyes.

Now that the Empire is here, the Emperor must be there. And the emperor's direct knights were right here.

“All the men in this prison were my men. Everyone looks like this now. ”

Suddenly, Hyun-seok's chest jumped. One intense premonition struck the brain strongly.

“If you have something you want to talk about, make it cool. They'll listen to you. ”

At the words of the stone, Kettler blinks a few times.

Hyun-seok thought his face was clearly smiling. I can't see his face because he's wrapped in bandages, but I can clearly feel it.

Maybe it's because it has a different sense.

“You have no idea how long I've waited and how much I've wanted to say it. ”

The human face of the bandage became darker with a young smile. No, that's what it looked like to me.

* * *

Hyundai stares at Kettler, the bandaged man with tired eyes. He spoke so much that he regretted for a moment.

I said a lot of things, but they were simple when I cleaned them up.

These were the Arphor Knights. They were framed and imprisoned in this prison.

This was a place where only the deepest sinners in the empire would be imprisoned.

Even the most notorious criminals were considered several times and then imprisoned.

Such prisons have imprisoned knights directly to the emperor.

Of course. Their guilt was treason.

They saved their families instead of being trapped here. I was trapped here because I had promised not to ask their families about their sins.

There was only one way for them to get out of here.

“What's with the bandage? ”

“Bandages? Oh, you mean these seals? ”

“Sealed cloth? ”

“Seal the soul. To be locked up forever and not to run away. ”

It was a horrible thing to say.

“What about the body? ”

Kettler answered the question of the string without hesitation.

“What do you think happened? ”

When Hyun-seok didn't answer, Kettler smiled and said.

“Hehehe. Rotten. No, not even that. Remember what I told you before? I'm a lie. My body is only shaped with a sealed cloth. ”

So it means that there is nothing in that bandage but a soul.

“What a... terrible prison. ”

How long will it take for the body to decompose? Kettler and the Arphor Knights have been trapped here for a long time.

What a terrible punishment. Moreover, they said they came in under false pretenses.

“Isn't it unfair? ”

“Unfair? That feeling no longer exists. Actually...... there's only one thing we want. ”

Hyun-seok looks back at Kettler. Kettler said a few moments later.

“Pardon.”

Hyun-seok nods. I understood enough. The death penalty will give them back their freedom.

The freedom to die.

“What are you going to do? Are you going to rob the rest of the prison? ”

I thought about it for a moment and nodded at Kettler's question. Once I could, I didn't have to let it go. I will take all the Dark Stones inside.

“Then do me a favor. Will you take us out when you're done? ”

“Outside? Out of jail? ”

“Right. Prison itself is meaningless, isn't it? ”

He looked around without answering. There was absolutely nothing in this prison.

‘First...... I have to collect that blocking pillar. ’

I thought I could keep it with the Dark Stones.

The fossil separated the blocking columns and placed them in the container box.

Then I went to the cell next door and repeated the work of separating the dark stones, collecting them, and pulling out the pillars of the blockade.

The number of prisons was enormous. So it took me a long time to get around all the prisons.

Anyway, after finishing everything up, he goes back to Kettler.

“Are you here to take me up? ”

Hyun-seok glanced at him and said.

“I can't believe it's hard to trust you. ”

“I thought I was telling you the truth. ”

“It's hard to believe the words themselves. ”

Surprisingly, Kettler easily accepted the words of Hyundai.

“Surely humans are hard to believe. So you're just gonna leave us here like this? ”

Hyun-seok looks carefully at Kettler, shining his eyes. I still can't get my mind right.

“Can you let me know who you are? ”

The red light that flowed from Kettler's eyes became brighter and stronger.

“Know me? It's not going to be easy because you have so many cars. ”

Hyun-Seok was only able to come up with one hypothesis. If there were too many level differences, it was obvious I couldn't use my mind.

“So that's what I'm asking you to do. Can you do that?”

“Well... it won't be impossible. Let's do it.”

At the end of Kettler's words, red light gushes from his eyes, blinking at a tremendous rate.

“Okay, that's enough. Give it a try. But I don't know if I'll be able to figure it out without my body. I'm sure there's something different about the soul. ”

Soul fighting? ’

Hyundai wondered if that was the level of obscurity.

‘I can't fathom whether I know what's on my mind. ’

Regardless, Hyun-seok tried to think again. Nor did it make it easy.

However, the more I focused, the more I felt the possibility.

I wonder how focused he was. Soon I remembered my name.

[Kettler]

Got it!

Hyun-seok cheered. It's finally working. And then I looked at Kettler with these crazy eyes.

If it is this hard, even if I let my mind be at ease, how great a level should it be if it is not.

‘Anyway, shall we read more information? ’

Hyun-Seok focused on Kettler's name while trying to calm his mind.

The information was spreading.

End

kang-hyun Kim