An old orc stepped into the room and sat down in front of the warden.

"You've been imprisoned in a dungeon for 20 years?" The deputy warden flipped through the prisoner's information.

"Yes...... Mr. Deputy Warden, I recognize the mistake I made......"

The deputy wardens looked at each other and rejected his request to be released.

"Well done! Orcs are like that, they never know the wrong ......"

There were aristocrats in the audience who said, and there were still people whispering that the dungeon had such a rule? They thought the guy thrown into the dungeon would die in a few days.

As the old orc walked out of the room, they saw the high wall that was said to have risen miraculously in just one week.

The prisoners are called Old Orc Freeman, and those prisoners are humans, as well as centaurs, elves, and gnolls, which are familiar to the De Chaso mercenary group.

As the carriage carrying the new prisoners drove up the walls, the prisoners gathered around to bet on who would be the first to break down: they would get the price of their impulses in the dungeon—endless remorse for the rest of their lives.

The prisoners in the dungeon thought of themselves and fell into a sad silence.

The first lesson the dungeon guard teaches the new prisoner is the cruelty of the dungeon, when a new prisoner yells after being unbearable in the darkness of the dungeon, is dragged out of the room by the deputy warden, and beats him to death in the midst of the noblewomen's "oh mystery". The remaining new inmates were silent.

The next day, Andy and the prisoners went to the cafeteria to eat, picked out maggots, and old Zoren asked them to feed the young birds they had picked up the other day.

The aristocrats found it vivid, the prisoners found it unreal, they had no separate cells, no canteens, no brown rice, not even maggots.

The story continues. Freeman gets to know Andy and knows that he was sentenced to prison for the murder of his wife and adulterer, but he insists that he is innocent. Andy struggles in the dungeon, where he struggles to adapt to the dirty work of the dungeon, sometimes fending off the onslaught of vicious criminals – but there are three of them.

Andy refuses to throw in the towel, so he always resists when trouble comes to his door...... Sometimes you win, but most of the time you lose.

The aristocrats are boasting that they will slit the throats of their attackers with daggers, the prisoners are laughing, and Lady Mia wonders if she should let the children continue watching.

Andy's suffering continues until the turn of the day comes: the dungeon has to pick a group of prisoners to clean the walls, which is the only chance they have to see outside.

Whether it is a nobleman or a mercenary, a child or a prisoner, they all hope that Andy will escape from the dungeon at this time. But Andy escaped in a different way: on a high wall, the deputy warden complains that one of his goods has been lost by a caravan and a large sum of money has been lost. Andy tells him that the caravan's cargo has signed a contract to pay three times the compensation for the lost goods, and promises to help the deputy warden get it back, just for a beer......"

The prisoners sat on a high wall, overlooking the vast city of Beta, as if the city and freedom were at their feet, each holding a glass of beer. The sun shines on their shoulders as if they are free.

Andy sat not far away, watching them enjoy their beers with a strange smile on his face. This smile is the same as that of many viewers in front of the magic image: a smile of relief and beauty.

It's as if everything is starting to get better, life in the dungeon no longer makes the audience feel depressed, and the nobles no longer chatter, but concentrate on the silence of the story.

Andy meets the three brothers again, and he is beaten half to death, but they don't succeed again. Then the deputy warden broke the legs and ribs of the three brothers. The deputy warden then introduces Andy to the warden and asks him to make fake accounts for the warden.

Sheltered and appreciated, Andy discovers that the Warden has a Philosopher's Stone from The Fall of the Mage Tower, and he secretly takes the Philosopher's Stone away, and then locks himself up on the second floor to show The Fall of the Mage Tower to all the prisoners in the square.

This time, the prisoner audience can finally say: they have indeed experienced it.

The price for this is Andy's imprisonment for a week, but he's still liked by everyone, the prisoners, the jailers, the deputy warden, the warden, they need Andy's smart brains. Andy also insisted on applying to the City Lord's Mansion to open a library in the dungeon. Except for being in the dungeon, Andy never seems to have lost his freedom.

But a bad news came: the old Zolen, who had been released from prison, died, and died by suicide......

Freeman, who has also been locked up in the dungeon for decades, empathizes: "Old Zoren can't get out of here, he doesn't fit in with the outside world. The high walls in the dungeon are fun...... When you first came in, you hated the walls around you; Slowly, you get used to living here; Eventually, you will find yourself having to rely on it to survive. ”

Life must go on, Andy came to the dungeon in the tenth year, insisted on applying to the city lord's mansion in the sixth year, and got a response: Lady Winter sponsored the dungeon library.

Annan tilted his head slightly at this time, and saw a trace of curvature on the hazy and noble side face of Lady Winter.

Time is measured in years, and Andy seems to be used to life in the dungeon, just like Freeman.

But there is one bird that should not be kept in a cage, because every wing of its wings is stained with the radiance of freedom. Andy finds the real murderer of his wife and adulterer, but refuses because the warden is worried that the fake account will be revealed.

As the audience worries about Andy, the magical image reveals the truth at the end: a tunnel that Andy has been digging with a pickaxe for nineteen years.

On a thunderstormy night, Andy crawls into the tunnel, burrows into a manure pit, and smashes rocks in front of the fence as thunder falls. Every thunder and knock seemed to ring in the hearts of the audience.

Eventually, when a filthy Andy climbed out of the cage leading to the outside of the dungeon and stretched out his arms to face the pouring rain, the cheers in the auditorium thundered.

The story continues, and when he applied for release from prison in his fortieth year, a relieved Freeman said, "I feel guilty all the time for what I have done...... It's not because I'm here, and it's not because I'm here to please you. Looking back, how I wanted to say something to that stupid young man who committed a sin, to tell him how I feel now, to tell him that there are other ways to solve the problem. But I can't do it...... You veto, I'm giving up. ”

As a result, the application was unexpectedly approved. But Freeman is different from Andy, who always had hope, his hope has long since been extinguished, he has experienced everything that old Zoren has experienced, and when he is about to end his life like old Zolen, he remembers Andy's letter, goes to the address mentioned in the letter, and finds a letter with the address and a passage fee under a fence.

Under the watchful eyes of the dungeon's inmates, the future lords of Starmoon Bay, mercenaries, and nobles, Freeman trekked to what Andy called the Land of Freedom, called Starmoon Bay. On the beautiful and dreamy blue sea and white sand, Freeman saw Andy, barefoot and sleeves pulled, jumping from a small wooden boat, walking towards him.

(End of chapter)