I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 70

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Chapter 70

The place where Ged took Helios was a little distance away, where the party was lying down.

Everyone was in terrible condition due to pushing themselves to their limits while facing Ged.

Soon Helios awkwardly joined them in conversation. And Ged’s group smiled.

If she listened carefully, she could probably tell what kind of conversation they were having, but Mint chose to turn her head away.

She lay down on the grass just like that.

“Just create a new correct answer.”

A different answer from her own. But the same choice. Mint had chosen to destroy the floor on the 40th Floor.

And she had passed through without killing anyone.

She closed her eyes.

‘They’ll grow closer.’

As much as the Tower drove prisoners to extremes, the prisoners had a strong tendency to stick together with their colleagues.

Through this incident, Ged’s group would unite solidly around Ged.

And the trust that Ged’s group showed toward Helios would become close to loyalty.

It wasn’t bad.

‘From the 41st Floor onward…’

The Tower mocks the prisoners.

Because it had also prepared trials that would drag prisoners into a quagmire as much as they united.

By the way.

‘Why are there so many innocent guys in that party?’

First of all, not only Ged but Seth as well.

Well, it wouldn’t be surprising if there weren’t such guys in this vast prison.

Helios was really lucky.

‘No, did he instinctively attract only guys like that?’

Of course, he would have weeded out the heavily sinful, vicious ones at her level.

‘Such a well-prepared feast, even with colleagues, chew it thoroughly and eat it.’

Make sure to reach the summit, Male Lead.

Mint slowly opened her eyes.

“…Guard, is it Garret?”

In her opened field of vision, she saw someone looking down at her.

Guard uniform. Sergeant rank.

“Get up. There’s someone looking for you.”

Mint got up slowly but calmly.

Is the Warden looking for me?

‘That can’t be right.’

Mint took off the mask of the lax prisoner she had worn until now and put on Garret’s face.

“Who is looking for me? Could it be Sergeant Steven, my mentor?”

The guard glanced at Mint.

“Insolent bitch.”

A sharp pain swept through Mint.

‘Elemental-type. Lightning element, I suppose.’

Even though she could have easily deflected it, she let herself take the hit. When Mint trembled, the guard smiled wickedly.

“Bitches like you need a good beating.”

He approached and tapped Mint’s cheek with his fist.

Mint quickly assumed an at-ease position and quietly lowered her eyes.

“You’ll find out when you get there.”

The guard, now in a good mood, threw her the answer like he was doing her a favor.

“The Guard Captain is waiting.”

The guard turned his back. Mint’s face instantly contorted.

…Has what I feared finally come?

She muttered to herself.

I’m screwed.

* * *

I glanced toward where Helios was.

I naturally shifted my gaze so the turned guard wouldn’t notice and stood up from my spot.

“Should we depart immediately?”

“Are you trying to talk back?”

An irritated voice came back.

At the same time, I felt the pain of electricity coursing through my body once again.

‘This guy has bad habits.’

It wasn’t strange. Just as the prisoners were violent, so were the guards.

There were even worse ones.

For example, there were guards who would torture prisoners whenever they were bored, using trivial excuses.

“Hehehe, you bastards are trash that wouldn’t be strange to die anyway, right?”

It wasn’t wrong.

Ged and Seth were exceptions, but the guys who gathered here had committed acts worthy of coming to the worst prison.

“Don’t talk back again. Making a newcomer like you shut up forever wouldn’t be difficult at all. Got it?”

“…I will correct myself.”

This would be the right thing to say.

I spoke while recalling when I made a mistake in front of Sergeant Steven.

It seemed to be the right answer.

‘As expected, he’s different from Sergeant Steven.’

In front of the person I was going to see now, clumsy imitation wouldn’t work.

I clicked my tongue inwardly, but I wasn’t particularly worried. It’s not like I hadn’t thought of this possibility.

It just feels fucking annoying.

As I walked, I could feel the fallen prisoners glancing at me.

Among those gazes would be Helios’s and Ged’s group as well. I definitely felt Helios’s stare.

Well, leaving him alone for a bit shouldn’t cause any trouble.

As long as no one dies, everything should be manageable.

I turned off my concerns and stared ahead.

Even knowing that the gaze persistently following behind me belonged to Helios.

“You don’t need to change clothes.”

The guard who came to get me introduced himself as ‘Sergeant Robson.’

Unexpectedly, he was a sergeant rather than a sergeant. His rank was surprisingly high compared to the power he possessed.

The strength I could sense was weaker than the guard who had appeared claiming to be the General Administrator of the Lowest Grade Floor.

Well, considering who I’m going to meet now, it’s not that strange.

‘The Guard Captain.’

If we’re talking about the owner and reigning emperor of this prison, it would undoubtedly be the old man Ralph, the Warden.

But when it comes to the guards themselves, the story changes.

Due to the closed nature of the prison, the power that guards possess is beyond imagination.

And the guards are divided into those who follow the Warden and those who follow the ‘Guard Captain.’

They were split exactly in half and opposed each other.

In other words, this Guard Captain who summoned me is the king of the faction opposing the Warden.

‘The king of prisoners, the king of the prison, and lastly, the king of the opposing faction.’

Thus, Niflheim is said to have three kings.

Of course, the last one, the Guard Captain, has a somewhat ambiguous position to be called a king, but his influence cannot be ignored.

Since they need to be able to suppress prisoners, as guard ranks rise from non-commissioned officers like staff sergeants and sergeants to commissioned officers like second lieutenants, they also possess powerful military force.

They’re probably at the level of a military force better than most noble knight orders and private soldiers who use Kia.

‘If I were the emperor, I would have been wary of these bastards.’

Maybe they feel secure because they’re stuck in a corner at the edge of the world. Or perhaps they just don’t care.

The guards’ military power would certainly become an enormous threat if they advanced to the capital.

‘Not my concern though.’

I don’t know about other things, but I know this much.

The Warden’s guards are generally more relaxed people with relatively loose hierarchical relationships. Sergeant Steven is a good example.

On the other hand, the Guard Captain’s guards are what you’d call ‘by the book.’

They strictly follow regulations and absolutely cannot tolerate insubordination.

It might seem like this side maintains better discipline, but there are also more lunatics on this side.

‘Since their leader is crazy to begin with. Of course.’

Finally, I arrived at a place.

A giant door came into view.

“Go ahead and enter.”

I politely bowed my head to the guard.

“Thank you for showing me the way!”

“Ahem.”

A sense of superiority crossed Sergeant Robson’s face as he guided me.

‘That bastard is definitely a parachute hire.’

The moment I entered through the door.

I clenched my fist and then opened it.

A very faint trace of Kia that flowed from me seeped into Sergeant Robson’s body.

What this meant, Robson would only find out when he entered his room this evening.

‘He should also know what it feels like to be roasted by his own Lightning Attribute.’

You’ll become an even more excellent guard, senior.

I entered inside with an expressionless face.

It was an office bathed in light.

Though it looked like an ordinary noble’s office, anyone who knew how difficult it was to see ‘ordinary’ in this prison would think otherwise.

‘How luxurious.’

Everything was gilded. However, it wasn’t excessive, creating a sense of heavy dignity.

But.

‘The smell of blood.’

My sensitive senses told me.

That until just an hour ago, a corpse or someone injured badly enough to be mistaken for a corpse had collapsed here, bleeding profusely.

“Raise your head.”

I was looking at bloodstains that had seeped between the polished marble when I slowly raised my head.

Before my eyes sat a man.

Hunched shoulders and back. Despite having the bright window as his backdrop, his jet-black hair seemed impervious to any light.

A complexion as pale as someone sick, with only his lips red as blood.

Deeply sunken eye sockets and long, narrow eyes. He had a gloomy impression.

Snake-like eyes and face.

However, his long eyelashes made him look rather pretty.

Tsk, this one truly had the face of a gigolo.

That bastard’s name was ‘Hades.’

He was the one who played the villain in this novel.

‘Though calling him a villain…’

Since all the male characters in the novel were either ‘corrupted men’, ‘crazy psychopaths’, or ‘pleasure killers’, it was a meaningless title anyway.

“…New Guard Garret, sir.”

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