Chapter 423 Imprisoned

Chapter 423 Imprisoned

(Three Hours Before Halagax Informed Alex and the Team of the Quest)

'What is the deal with this bastard,' Halagax thought as he looked at the man before him.

"My name is Klaed, and I mean you no harm," The man said, taking his hands out of his pocket to calm the tense situation.

"What do you want?" Halagax questioned, killing intent pulsing from his cold eyes, with his curved daggers ready to defend, as he could sense the man was a threat.

"Your unique shapeshifting ability is perfect for what I require for a particular task, so I need your help, for which I will pay you very handsomely," Klaed said, a smile spreading on his face as he sensed the diminishing killing intent.

"I am listening," Halagax said, knowing he most likely had stumbled on a quest.

"I want you to get prisoned in the Dungeon on the Main Island, reach the Fifth underground floor, and after escaping the cell, shapeshift yourself into a woman,"

"You then need to reach the end of the floor and place a key that I will give you on the end wall, which will shift aside, revealing a hidden floor with a small number of prison cells, and in one of them, you will find a dying man, who is your target,"

"The success of my plan depends on several tasks that must be executed with precision and punctuality, and if you adhere strictly to my instructions, we should encounter no issues," Klaed stated, offering only vague outlines of his plan.

'10 Million points as the reward,' Halagax thought, his heart rate raising as he looked at the quest. Diiscover new stories at novelhall.com

'This quest surely involves bringing the city down,' Halagax thought as he shifted his eyes back to the man before him, contemplating what he should do.

'The task will not be as simple as he presents it as the dungeon will have guards and taking a prisoner out who is prisoned in the special area would be anything but easy and would be impossible without outside help, and creating a ruckus,'

'As I can't hide my location from my team, so even if I hide that I went to the dungeon because of the quest, they are bound to suspect when the ruckus is created, and with that bastard in my team, I can't be certain if he wouldn't come to soil my work,' Halagax thought, his mind calculating the risk involved in the plan.

The cells were designed to confine individuals with strength up to the Sixth rank, with chains that bound the inmate continuously, devouring their mana and vitality, which acted as torture for the prisoners.

In the dark confines of the prison cell, Alex sat with his right arm extended above his head, chained to the wall, with his feet likewise bound to the ground, leaving him with minimal mobility.

'At this rate, it will take me at least ten more hours before I can break free of these chains,' Alex mused as he sensed the dense darkness eroding away at the chains, keeping his arms and legs in place.

Alex had tried using brute force on the chains, but the more pressure he placed on the chains, the stronger their suction of his vitality and mana became, which was used to, in turn, strengthen them, making his attempts a failure.

Alex had only used the Ruler Pride skill to push his stats above 200K when trying to break free with brute strength instead of going all out because he didn't desire to have the Dragon Might skill on the cooldown in a critical situation.

Alex was using the Nihility Purge skill to slowly erode away the magic runes, keeping the restraints active, and he was comfortable wasting time because even with chains keeping him bound in place, his senses were free to roam not only his level but even two of the floor above him and he could sense most of every ongoing thing.

Alex could sense his four crew members, all of them using their own means to break free but making no progress, and seeing Halagax make an effort to break free, it seemed he made an honest mistake in a hurry to make sure they ended up in the dungeon.

Alex could sense that besides the protectors standing at the entrance of each floor, no individual was free, and from what he could sense, not a single inmate was trying to break free on both the third and fourth floor, which was unusual if Klaed and his group had hired multiple individuals.

Alex knew the quest they received from Klaed was not a fake because Zero recognized it as a quest with clear instructions, and the first objective was to search the cell numbered twenty-

ninth on the fourth level of the dungeon.

So, at least the story of the clan weapon and its core was true, and there was something to be found in the cell on the fourth floor, but Alex couldn't help but sense that something was off, and Halagax knew more than he was letting them know.

Alex scanned his surroundings every few minutes to not fatigue his mind with keeping the mana sense active, but even as minutes turned to hours, he found no abnormality.

After more than ten gruelling hours, Alex successfully disabled the restraints on his arms and legs, crushed them with brute force and did the same with the steel bars, finally being free to leave the cell.