I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 36

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Chapter 36

“Do you know something?”

“Master doesn’t know anything~.”

“….”

“Hyeong, at least a hint…!”

“Boss, like Seth said, could you give us at least a hint… wouldn’t that work?”

“Boss doesn’t know anything.”

At my expressionless rambling, I could see Ged’s Group quickly giving up.

Why don’t you ask a bit more? There are other versions too.

Soon after, a completely different animal emerged from the hole.

“Snakes?”

They were real snakes. Not just one, but an overwhelming number that writhed together.

Huh, this level seems pretty normal?

“Ugh, what’s this? Smoke?”

“Don’t breathe it in! It’s deadly poison!”

Surprisingly, Brett was the first to notice the poison and shouted.

Though they were facing poison-spewing enemies for the first time, they remained calm like a party that had grown by using crises as stepping stones.

‘Their response ability could be considered intermediate prisoner level?’

As always, I leisurely stepped back to watch.

‘Was I worried for nothing?’

The wheat field scenery that seemed stained with blood was a bit concerning, but this was manageable.

Sure enough, the party steadily reduced the number of snakes.

And it was time for the boss to appear.

“…What is that?”

“At least it doesn’t seem to be a scarecrow!”

“I can tell. Will you be okay, Ged?”

“Yeah. I’ll try to block it!”

“Haha, this is kind of creepy.”

It definitely looked human-like, but something like a mannequin appeared with a completely white face and no eyes, nose, or mouth at all.

It didn’t look difficult to deal with, but the problem was the numbers.

Not just one, but an overwhelming number that made everything in sight appear white. It created a chilling scene.

“Mommy, mommy… where are you?”

“Daddy! Please save me. Daddy!”

“Waaaah!”

“…What is this?”

They just lacked facial features, but otherwise looked like precisely crafted humans.

When these faceless beings began making children’s voices, everyone stiffened.

Among them, one entity raised its hand high and shouted.

“Comfort me! Mommy!”

“Comfort me! Comfort me!”

“Don’t hurt me!”

“No!”

“There’s a bad kid among us!”

“There is!”

“Find them!”

Only Helios and Brett maintained their composure. Helios turned toward Haira.

“Whatever the case, we need to take them out. Haira, can you make it so we can’t hear the sounds?”

“Huh?”

“I think you could use Bewilderment on our people.”

“I’ll try.”

Helios and Ged’s Group soon moved swiftly.

Though the childish crying and voices continued, they calmly reduced their numbers as if they couldn’t hear anything.

Since Haira’s ability didn’t work on me anyway, I could hear everything clearly.

“Mama?”

There was one particularly grating sound, but it soon disappeared cleanly to a disc I created.

‘Is this the end?’

Though it was quite grotesque for ordinary people, it didn’t seem particularly strong.

In fact, all the floors Helios and Ged’s Group had passed through seemed more difficult.

It was when the last standing entity fell to the ground.

“Did we get them all?”

“Bro, cha, I saw it in a book, that’s a Forbidden Spell…”

“What, Seth. What kind of books are you reading?!”

While everyone was looking at each other with relief and chatting, I suddenly shot up from my spot.

“…Tsk!”

In an instant, my body was standing in front of the party. My eyes met Helios’s. He looked puzzled.

“Master?”

“Sorry about this.”

“What?”

Without time to explain, I grabbed and threw Helios.

I heard the sound of discs appearing equal to the number of people, striking and sending Ged’s Group flying.

“Agh, brotherrrrr!”

“Kyaaah!”

“Sorry, everyone.”

I waved my hand halfheartedly.

“Good children should rest now.”

“Cough, gasp, that’s too much! Why did you only throw Boss by hand!”

“Well, our princess is precious.”

“Who’s your princess!”

Good hearing. I can hear Helios getting angry from all the way over here.

I leisurely picked at my ear while staring ahead.

Whoosh!

A viscous liquid grazed my cheek.

As soon as it hit the ground, hissing sounds erupted as the earth melted away.

‘Poison? Acid?’

Judging by how it was melting, it was both.

‘This is insane.’

I was left speechless.

What the hell is this?

‘There’s absolutely no way the lower floor guys could block this. Even the upper management would get poisoned. What kind of bullshit is this?’

The Tower, consisting of 100 floors total, had its own stages.

As if they didn’t want people crowding on one floor, there was a proper difficulty distribution.

But this is where the top floor rank, the ‘Boss,’ comes into play.

The Boss can control the Tower’s overall difficulty and the entities and materials that appear in trials.

In other words, if they wanted to, they could make the entire Tower’s difficulty incredibly high.

Like right now.

‘How the hell is Helios supposed to deal with something like this?’

The fallen mannequins were moving like living people, wriggling as they fell into the holes.

And soon after, a massive entity emerged from the hole.

It was a snake.

Moreover, a snake that spewed thick poison just by existing.

‘Thank god this is only the 29th Floor.’

From the 30th Floor onward, the trial themes change.

Even if the Boss can adjust trials, they can’t change the main theme set for each floor.

So while they can make a snake appear on the 29th Floor, they can’t change the pattern of ‘animals’ appearing and a ‘boss’ emerging that continues from the 20th to 29th Floors.

“But you know, there’s something strange about this…”

“What would that be?”

My Kia surrounded the snake, forming a massive dome-shaped hemisphere.

Without hesitation, I stepped inside and suddenly recalled what Sergeant Steven had said.

“No, it’s not something for a junior to worry about. It seems the prisoners on the Tower’s upper floors have been causing a commotion lately.”

“Is that so?”

“Yeah, it’s not common for multiple people to die outside the Tower.”

The Tower’s difficulty that had changed drastically.

The fact that multiple people had died on the upper floors above the 80th Floor, where no one had died even when I was there.

Everything pointed to one thing.

“…Just what kind of crazy bastard became the King?”

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“Still no, no news from the Boss?”

A woman in her mid-thirties fidgeted restlessly, biting her nails.

She had a gloomy appearance with bangs covering her eyes, and the pupils visible between them were unfocused like those of a blind person.

It was Doris, a prisoner on the 92nd Floor who could see anything with Kia.

“Don’t ask me.”

“If, if you don’t know, who would know… The Twins said they don’t, don’t know either.”

“I don’t know. There’s no news! Just how far did she go this time that she’s not coming back?!”

The person who answered Doris’s question was none other than Deril.

“Damn it, what is she doing. Time has passed and a new Boss has already been chosen…”

For Deril, who shared the same cell as Mint and considered herself her right hand, this current situation was nothing but strange.

“What are those guard bastards plotting? Has anyone talked to the Warden?”

In front of Deril were several prisoners. They were all prisoners staying on the 90th Floor or above.

If there was a common trait, they were all stained with blood without a single uninjured spot.

While most shook their heads or remained silent, a giggling sound was heard.

Doris, the most timid among them, flinched and trembled.

“Kyah, so you were here?”

Hissss. It was a sound that sent chills just by hearing it. The sound of walls and floors melting away from acid and poison.

Turning their heads, they saw a bob cut woman with pink hair giggling.

Ramona.

A prisoner who, like Mint, had shared the same cell.

And the new ‘King’ who had recently changed.

“Everyone’s been avoiding me so thoroughly.”

She always said incomprehensible things, but they thought she genuinely followed Mint.

“How disappointing.”

But now, looking at the countless fallen on the ground, it would be hard to say such things.

“Did you think I wouldn’t know if you hid in the Tower?”

“…”

“Oh right, do you like the difficulty? I tried to make it fun.”

“…”

Deril ground her teeth.

“A difficulty designed to kill everyone?”

“Oh my. It’s just set according to the floor, if there’s a strong person, it comes out strong.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. You’ve overturned the entire system the Boss created.”

“So what?”

“…”

Even with Deril’s interrogation, Ramona remained nonchalant. Here was the reason why they couldn’t carry out Mint’s last order to guide the new prisoner.

One side aiming for the Boss position, the other side trying to stop such Ramona.

“Unfortunately, the Boss who would have something to say isn’t here.”

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