I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 67

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Chapter 67

“….”

“Still don’t get it?”

Helios turned his head. Tsk tsk, that’s something you shouldn’t do during battle.

“I told you the 40th Floor would be more powerful.”

40th Floor. This place includes even those chosen by Dart in the space of terror.

It means they appear as enemies in this space with their memories lost.

“Be careful. That’s an enemy now.”

Right. They inevitably appear as ‘enemies’ to their colleagues.

“…Boss is Ged?”

Haira muttered blankly. Just as Brett and Seth couldn’t hide their bewildered expressions and hesitated, tap tap tap. Small footsteps ran out.

“No, Kid!”

At the end of the path the kid was running toward was Ged, who no matter how you looked at him didn’t seem normal…!

“No!”

The child would be torn apart by the Blind Axe and shield that Ged was about to swing!

‘I can’t let him die!’

It was the moment Seth urgently reached out his hand.

Ged stopped fighting and spread his arms.

“Sammy…!”

His thick arms hugged the child tightly as if handling precious treasure.

“My son….”

At the words that flowed from the closed-eyed Ged, everyone froze in place.

“Huh…?”

Forgetting the situation, Haira let out a strange sound.

‘Son? Son? Could it be that the reason I thought I’d seen him somewhere was because he was Ged’s son?’

Damn, my crazy intuition.

But how on earth did such a pretty son come from under that burly, typical soldier-like Father?

Haira felt amazing for sensing the commonality between the father and son.

‘Then will the situation be resolved easily?’

It seemed likely. From what she could see, Ged appeared to have come looking for his son.

Hadn’t they been protecting his son from the Enemy Forces all this time?

Just as Haira let out a sigh of relief, her body tilted backward.

Thwang!

“Haha. Haira, you can’t let your guard down.”

A sly voice was heard.

Haira looked up blankly while sitting on her bottom.

An axe was embedded in the Wall.

‘Just now Ged threw at me….’

If Brett hadn’t pulled him back with shadows, it would have pierced right where his head was located.

It sent chills down his spine.

“How dare you, my son. Kill. I’ll kill them all. Everyone…! Everyone!”

Though Ged had retrieved his son, he still didn’t seem to be in his right mind.

Even though his son Sammy was struggling in his arms, opening and closing his mouth trying to say something and pulling at him.

“Aren’t you trying to take this too easy?”

In the standoff, Helios glanced toward Mint. The standoff didn’t last long.

“…Is that really Boss Ged?”

“Who knows.”

Ged fought well even while holding his son in one arm.

Clang! Claang!

It was impressive that he could engage in such intense combat with one hand.

He hadn’t been this skilled before.

Or had he been stronger when he was Outside? That didn’t seem right either.

Then the only interpretation was that he had become stronger after becoming a boss.

Everyone seemed to be thinking the same thing.

Helios gritted his teeth without taking his eyes off the battle.

“Master, do all prisoners always go through such ridiculous trials?”

Though muffled by the combat, his resentment was clearly felt.

He had to personally kill someone who had been his colleague until this morning. That was the only way this trial would end.

Otherwise, they would die and it would end that way.

“Who knows.”

The difficulty had certainly increased.

Usually, the 40th Floor trial was supposed to involve one of the colleagues becoming an enemy.

However, it wouldn’t create such a realistic space, nor would it show the circumstances of the colleague who became an enemy.

It would simply draw out the potential of the colleague-turned-enemy to its limits.

‘If this is what it’s like after the difficulty was lowered, how bad was it originally?’

The Warden had definitely said the difficulty adjustment was complete.

Despair and dejection could be felt from everyone in the party except Ged. It was exactly what the Tower wanted.

And it was a sight Mint had seen countless times while climbing the Tower.

Mint was curious.

Would Helios break down in the face of this level of trial?

Ged was talented enough that Mint had guaranteed he would reach at least the 70th Floor.

When the Tower drew out his potential to its maximum, he became capable of fighting evenly against his three current colleagues with just one hand.

Even the appearance of that child was surely something the Tower had intended.

“…Sigh, Master. Is there no other way? Other than killing?”

Mint didn’t answer.

This floor would be meaningless unless Helios cleared it himself.

If he was going to aim for the Summit, he shouldn’t be looking for answer sheets at this level.

“Hahaha, Ged. You’ve completely lost it, haven’t you?”

“Ged, we’re not enemies!”

“Shut up, shut up. Everyone, everyone! I’ll kill them all! Everyone…!!”

While Brett faced off against Ged, Haira used Bewilderment to slightly slow down his movements.

Whenever a brief opening appeared, Helios looked around his surroundings.

The furniture that Seth had floating struck Ged’s body and shattered.

“…Master said so. That there would be floors where a separate method for clearing exists.”

Helios thought.

The enemies in the wasteland were far too numerous for them to handle alone.

Right. As if shouting that coming here was useless.

This building stood tall and clearly visible from afar. Even though all the other buildings were completely destroyed.

They had been lured here.

‘The solution isn’t far away.’

He recalled the day they solved the trial on the 1st Floor where countless rats appeared.

“…Master, please answer just one thing.”

At Helios’s respectful tone, Mint chuckled while standing behind him.

“Wow, playing dirty now.”

It was as good as an affirmation and acceptance.

“…Among the trials in this Tower, are there trials with no solution?”

Ged’s hand axe grazed Brett’s forearm. Even that alone sent blood splattering everywhere.

Brett let out a hollow laugh.

“If you were this strong, why didn’t you show some of that power before? Ahaha.”

Behind Brett’s voice, gradually sinking into resignation, Mint’s voice could be heard.

“There are no trials that can’t be solved.”

Mint looked at Ged, who had become like a fanatic, and recalled the distant past.

“Kill them, kill them!”

“But, they’re colleagues. How can we kill them!”

“Kill them!”

Back then, Ramona and Deril were beside Mint. The two who had been roommates until she became Boss, and even after.

Everyone else chose to kill their colleagues who had become enemies.

Ramona lent her support simply because Mint’s decision seemed interesting.

“Hmm, Mint. My lovely junior. Why did you stubbornly refuse when there was an easy path?”

“The Tower doesn’t want prisoners to die. It just wants to torment them to the point of death.”

“….”

“So problems with no answers? It doesn’t give those. Because prisoners would give up if there were no answers.”

Mint had answered Ramona’s question like this on the 40th Floor.

“I hate doing what that damn Tower tells me to do.”

I ultimately had no choice but to select the worst answer, but what about you.

Helios pondered deeply.

The time for hints was over. Now if he didn’t join the fight, Brett’s arm would be blown off.

‘There is an answer.’

The Tower doesn’t give trials without answers. And it wants the prisoners to suffer the most.

It instigates and deepens their dissolution, resignation, anger, and conflict.

In this situation, what would plunge them into the greatest conflict, anger, and despair?

Ged seems to cherish his son.

Enough to appear in a place swarming with enemies. Enough to hold him preciously even while attacking with a crazed expression.

“Kill the son.”

Helios reached his conclusion.

The boss of this floor isn’t Ged, but his son.

“What? Wh-what kind of nonsense is that!”

The conversation between Mint and Helios was heard by the party excluding Ged.

They only caught parts of it while focused on combat, but they understood the gist.

“Ahaha.”

Brett let out a short laugh.

“Right, if we kill just one, we don’t have to kill Ged, is that it?”

Brett’s face, drained of laughter, took on an eerie light.

Brett wrapped his body in shadows.

He targets the child.

The moment he was about to step forward.

Thoom!

Telekinesis Kia crushed him down. Brett turned his head with a frown.

“Seth…! What are you doing.”

“N-no, no way. Wh-who are you trying to kill, Brett!”

“Cut it out! It’s better to kill some brat we just met today than to kill Ged.”

“I-is killing a child that easy for you?!”

Since Haira was using all her strength to stop Ged’s movements, Brett hadn’t suffered fatal injuries.

“Does some child we don’t even know matter? Then should we kill Ged instead?”

Seth bit his lips.

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