Alric attempted to parry the attack however the sheer force was enough to send him flying.

Hitting against a prison cell abruptly stopped Alric’s movement.

He coughed up blood and flashed his head trying to regain his full faculties.

“Well, looks like that is enough playing around for me then.”

Alric drew his sword and wiped the blood from his lips.

“Chains of Gravity…

RELEASE!”

The moment Alric chanted his spell the gravity he had around himself slowly increasing since he was a child was released.

The prison prevented new spells from being casted but it did nothing against spells being broken under the magic formations. Alric’s release spell had been casted long before he entered the prison so how could it be stopped now.

The only issue was that due to the magic formations all along Alric had to expend more mana and focus to maintain the Gravity Chains on himself.

This meant that up until now Alric had to be dividing his focus and mana to this spell. Although under normal circumstances this division was miniscule the magic formations here made it even more difficult.

His gravity Chains took no focus under normal circumstances. He could literally use it in his sleep and by now they had reached six times that of the planet’s natural gravity.

The moment he released his gravity chains Alric felt his muscles expand. Alric smirked at the feeling of raw power in his hands and then rushed forward at the warden once more.

They exchanged blow for blow; the warden's mana armor only provided minimal protection, but made the two almost even in terms of speed.

The Warden was shocked at the turn of events while facing the intruder.

As the fight progressed the attacks of the intruder increased in speed and strength, even causing him to fall to his knee at the impact of the last attack.

It was obvious that even though they were even in speed the intruder's strength was increasing as though he was just getting used to the new found power.

Alric had started to pump the mana inside his body into his kluddes tattoo the moment he would strike or dodge as opposed to continually letting it flow.

It felt like a hose that had been flowing freely that now had been semi-covered, his strength erupted in bursts allowing for more devastating attacks.

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The warden's palm was still shaking, he had successfully blocked the last attack but the sheer force had not only knocked the sword out of his hand but also sent him to his knees.

Without hesitation Alric swung his shadow scourge, the warden without a weapon tried to focus all of his armor at one point. But the brute force of the attack sliced through the magic armor and sent his head rolling.

When Alric looked behind him to signal the inmates who were following him, he saw only dead bodies and limbs that had been cut clean.

Those that came out of hiding were his two underlings and only four inmates who had stayed to watch the fight. Alric was disappointed as he ran. He had planned this break-in years ago when he received his kludde contract, and had calculated it would get him at least fifty men.

But the reality was these criminals were already in a mental prison. The moment they saw a hint of danger they gave up and returned to their cells, only these four from the upper levels decided to continue.

Unknown to Alric the main reason for so few of the inmates from the upper floors deciding to continue with the escape was due to them having relatively short sentences. If they behaved they would all be free men within the next five years or so.

Eventually the group made it to the lowest level of the prison. This was when Alric made eye contact with his pet kluddes.

He hugged Yike and Rike and rubbed their furs. The inmates behind him looked awkwardly at the scene.

The blurred-faced man hugged monsters as though they were puppies, even more strange was how they all took turns jumping and rubbing against him. Eventually the reunion ended and Alric and his group examined the cells.

These cells were filled with cobwebs and prisoners that were inside them were bone thin and obviously malnutritioned. They weren’t what Alric considered when he originally thought of creating an army out of criminals.

These inmates were so thin and feeble that they needed help to leave their cells. But with no one better Alric released them and sent them ahead. He piled those who could not move onto his pet kluddes and sent them forward.

Due to the nature of the magic formations that surrounded the prison no form of external magic could be casted within the walls of the prison, neither could mana be gathered. Unless you casted a spell before you entered or used internal mana it would be impossible to use magic.

Alric exploited these principles to run a muck inside the prison before his internal mana reserves were depleted. The final phase of his plan was the escape.

He had sent his four pet kluddes to dig a way out near the prison. If they got too close they would trigger another set of alarms.

Alric and his team broke into the prison from above ground while his kluddes invaded the prison from below ground creating chaos. The four pups each set off the alarms from four different sides and went almost unnoticed.

By the time the army arrived and was on the tail of the escapees they discovered the giant hole in the lower sections of the prison.

The army entered and walked a few meters into the tunnel and saw there was a fork in the path.

The commander, after careful thought, decided to split his troops and continued.

However after only five more minutes of walking the commander came across another split in the road and once again he was forced to split his troops.

After an hour of walking, the commander that started with thirty odd soldiers following him had now been reduced to only two men, while the others explored the other tunnels.

The commander continued to walk only to encounter another fork in the tunnels.

“SCREW YOU!!”

The commander roared in frustration, tired of all the dirt and debris. If he got his way he would have lit the entire tunnel ablaze but his orders were to bring the culprits alive.

The commander shook his head and decided to walk forward regardless of the slip in the path, he wouldn’t face the unknown by himself.

“I swear when I catch them they are all as good as dead!”