The dark and damp space was mixed with the smell of sour and erosive minors, and there were torches planted on the walls of the corridor every ten meters away, which could not illuminate this dim place at all. It was a place cut off from the rest of the world, and there was a deathly silence except for the occasional crackling of torches.

"A... Answer... Answer. ”

The sound of ticking water, like the pendulum of a clock, trickled down from the roof of the cave and onto Elpa's head.

Perhaps the cold droplets did their trick, and Elpa slowly woke up from her stupor.

"Hmm!"

With a snort*, Elpa tried to move his sore neck.

"Don't move!"

Another voice sounded in the darkness, one full of worry and fatigue.

It was then that Elpa realized that he had been bound with a special collar on his limbs and neck, in addition to the thick shackles. This collar is fixed inward with a circle of toothed blades, and as long as Elpa's range of movement is slightly larger, the blade will sink deep into the skin.

"It's... Be... Where?"

Elpa, who had just woken up from a coma, didn't seem to understand what was going on, and her dry throat made it difficult for her to even speak.

"Earth....... Prison. ”

Elpa tried to twist her neck, trying to keep every movement slight. In this way, the action could have been completed in one second, but it took Elpa more than three minutes to complete.

In fact, it is already fast, Elpa's body is still in an absolute sense of powerlessness, if it is someone else, if you don't want your neck to be cut off by a blade, you can only honestly stay in the same position and remain motionless.

If you don't pay attention, you will send yourself to the western sky.

After two or three minutes of straightening and lifting his neck, Elpa looked in the direction he had just heard the sound.

"Herara, why are you?"

Elpa's eyes, which could see through the night, were completely different from what she had expected. The person in front of him was not half-hung and tied up like himself, but in a special iron box similar to the "Iron Maiden".

Since the lid on her head was open, Elpa was instantly recognizable as Herara. The weakness caused by the excessive bleeding and the pain of the wounds all over her body made Herara's voice change a lot.

Herara saw that Elpa was fully awake, and barely managed to squeeze out a smile on her pale face, perhaps because the smile touched the wound. made her can't help but "hiss" the cold air.

"You're finally awake, and it looks like I'm finally able to rest for a while. ”

With that, Herara closed her tired eyes.

This scene made Elpa almost go berserk, and his otherwise peaceful body writhed and struggled wildly, not caring about the wound caused by the blade on his skin.

In this way, even the steel skin with the three-headed dog caused dozens of shocking wounds when Elpa struggled frantically.

"Herara, Herara. Little pull, little pull. Wake up, don't sleep, don't scare me, okay?"

Elpa searched for all the words about Herara in his head, kept calling, kept struggling to get close to her, in short, he wanted to wake Herara up, hoping not to fall asleep.

I was afraid that Herara would never be able to open those eyes again.

Outside the cage, the hallway was as quiet as ever, and there were no guards or anything else called for Elpa's howling wolf.

"It's noisy, I haven't slept for three days, can you let me sleep for a while!"

The corners of Herara's eyes twitched, and she said through gritted teeth.

Indeed, because he was worried that Elpa would do anything excessive when he came from the coma center, Herara had been trying to get himself awake for revenge since he went down to the dungeon, in order to remind Elpa.

When Elpa woke up, her tense nerves relaxed, and Herara immediately felt a feeling of exhaustion hit her.

But as soon as he closed his eyes, before he could relax, he heard Elpa's cry full of worry. It's still the kind of energy that doesn't open your eyes and isn't ready to stop.

It's a little angry, but she understands. Elpa is concerned about it, because of his current state, Elpa has completely lost the judgment that a commander should have.

"Uh, you're not dead?"

Seeing Herara suddenly open her eyes, Elpa asked very thoughtlessly, still struggling with the posture she had just faced.

"Phew, you're dead!"

Herara replied with a hint of arrogance.

After confirming that Herara was really fine, Elpa began to force herself to calm down. Only after calming down can we objectively analyze the current situation and find a way out of here.

Indeed, in Herara's race, that wound was nothing at all. But what really happened before, where did the others go?

Where do you choose?

As Elpa thought back and pondered these questions, Herara spoke.

"We were betrayed. ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"Shortly after handing over the princess's escort mission......"

Shortly after the handover was completed, the Duchy's troops suddenly accused our personnel of openly attacking the escorts, and fled the scene after the attack failed. Although it is not explicitly named, all the fingers are clearly pointed at Elpa and another colleague. Because these two people were not present at that time, and their whereabouts are unknown.

While everyone was arguing with each other over this matter, the princess's guards attacked without warning. More than half of the unsuspecting team members were beaten into a sieve by the crossbows in an instant, and they were eliminated on charges of attempting to murder the princess and framing the captain of the guard.

After listening to Herara's narration, Elpa felt a little incredible. As far as he knew, the guards of the imperial capital did not have the ability to instantly annihilate their own subordinates, even if it was a sneak attack.

"Are you sure the Guards did it?"

"I don't know, although they are dressed in the garb of the guards, their aura is different from that of the guards. But what the difference is, I can't say for a while. ”

"Since I can't describe it, let's put it first. With that, Elpa began to close her eyes, taking in everything around her.

However, everything ...... No.

"It's useless, the other party seems to have used drugs that inhibit our abilities, and now you and I can't do anything. ”

After listening to Herara's words, Elpa gave up what he had just done. He looked at the wound on his wrist, indeed, the wound left by the struggle. It doesn't heal as quickly as it used to. Even after all this time, blood continued to flow from the wound.

"I don't know what's going on with Anna's side? It stands to reason that I should have contacted my side a long time ago. Elpa muttered to himself.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Herara suddenly shouted in surprise. This made Elpa a little puzzled, and wondered, what was going on with this guy's surprise?

"It's Anna, it's Anna. The aura on those people was very similar to Anna's. ”

Perhaps sensing that Elpa didn't understand his own words, Herara continued,

"It's the unfamiliar faces of the Guard. ”