397.Chapter 390 – Ranchi’s One Mind, Two Minds

Chapter 390 – Ranchi’s Double-mindedness

Ranqi thought about it, it seems that Duke Morotian wanted this meeting to be relatively private, that’s why he didn’t make a big arrangement or go through the academy route to apply for it, but instead, he asked the warden to privately pass the message on his behalf.

“Who asked you, the Empire’s busybody, to always be a god?”

Warden Bakas shook his head and joked, and up to this point, also observed Ranchi’s expression, not knowing if he would agree.

If he agreed, Duke Morotian Berenhard would logically owe himself a favor, and if he didn’t, he would certainly not offend Rocky McCarthy.

Bakas all the way to speculate on the mind of the man beside him, only to feel that he is full of the mystery of the superior, not the slightest bit to see what he is considering in his deep thinking eyes.

Ranch finally stopped and stood with Warden Bakas in front of the large crimson double-opening doors near the end of the corridor.

“No problem, Warden Bakas has asked, I’ll make time even if I’m busy, why don’t you see me waiting for Mr. Berenhard in my office after we finish talking about our partnership project today?”

Ranqi gazed at Warden Bakas with a gentle expression, like he was telling Warden Bakas that he would definitely give this face.

“…… really flatters me, then I will give Duke Morotian Berenhard an answer first, and then we can start talking freely?”

Warden Bakas was slightly stunned, then revealed a smile in salutation.

He felt very comfortable talking to this Governor Lodge McCarthy.

Compared to the highly respected Duke Morotian Berenhard, Rocky McCarthy still respected the man in front of him more, and also prioritized business talks with him first, followed by Duke Morotian Berenhard.

“No problem, Mr. Bakas, this way please.”

Rancic smiled as he raised his hand and pushed open the heavy doorway, signaling Warden Bakas to head into the VIP meeting room.

Although Rancic had no reaction on the surface, he was pondering in his mind what the purpose of Duke Morotian Berenhard’s visit was.

He had actually been finding it strange as to whether Crowleys and Sidor had lied to him, or whether this Duke was still under false pretenses.

Anyway, a meeting and chat later on would be enough to find out the true nature of this Duke-sama.

As for this moment, his mind was mostly on the other side of the city, located on the western outskirts of the imperial capital of Helom, and the silence at times wasn’t meant to make Warden Bakas feel superior, but rather manipulating two bodies was just a bit of a distraction.

……

West side of Imperial Helm.

In the suburb of Helm, there stands a huge four-sided building, surrounded by the strict Proteus Imperial troops, although the various Helm style buildings nearby have their own unique charms, but in the contrast of this prison building, they all look quite inferior.

The walls of the prison are dark gray, as solid as cold iron, covered with dense ancient magic spells, cold light surrounds the building, emitting magic fluctuations that can make the skin of visitors feel tingling, forming an impenetrable protective barrier.

However, this part of the ground was only the tip of the iceberg of this underground world-like prison.

There were a total of seven floors in Helm’s Prison, excluding the base floor on the ground, the negative one to the negative three floors were the outer floors, and the negative four to the negative six floors were the inner floors.

For the average student of the Protoss Royal Magic Academy, just looking at its existence from afar, there was an invisible sense of oppression and terror sweeping around them. Therefore, the vast majority of third year students would not choose the Helom Warden Examination for their Topstone Diploma Program.

Only by using the Empire’s legitimate documents and procedures, and passing through several security checks, can they enter the interior of the basic level of this Helmholtz Prison.

In the outer boundary of the building, many figures wearing special uniforms of the Imperial Army are inspecting, they are not ordinary Imperial soldiers, but the sergeants of the magical agent force, anyone who comes and goes, as long as there is a slightest crack and suspicion, they will be locked by their sharp eagle eyes and probing magic.

Everything is only because of this building Helom Prison’s internal incarceration of many extremely dangerous imperial felons.

At one time, in order to prevent the Church of the Resurrection or the lawless elements from targeting the inmates in this prison, the vigilance here was even a bit higher.

Now that the Church of the Resurrection has become a legitimate organization, no matter which branch, in the current crisis point all need to maintain a good image of law-abiding, and even more need to assist the imperial military, to prove their willingness to cooperate.

With this group of ex-professional terrorists fighting other criminals, the frequency of violence and crime in the empire began to plummet in a short period of time.

Early this morning, on the fortress-like outside of Helom Prison, Huberian and four other figures had made their way through the building’s layers of security, the shadows of a few people being dragged out under the early morning sunlight, laying straight down on the wide road until deeper inside the building, where the shadows were also as if wiped out, becoming a completely confined space.

Several of them wore the Proteus Royal Academy of Magic school emblem on their internship model prison guard attire, belonging to the co-branded prison guard clothing, as long as they chose the subject of “Helom Prison Guards Examination”, no matter whether they passed or not, alive or dead, they would be given a set of clothing as a souvenir.

“……”

Huberian looked back at the somewhat distracted black-haired girl with green pupils.

The Great Love Poet, who had changed into her human form at the moment, was physically controlled by Ranch.

However, Ranchi needed to control both sides of the body that were in different scenarios at the same time, and sometimes this side of the Great Ai Poet would look a little distracted, almost falling or bumping into the security gates when walking, and when she lost her balance, she needed Huberian to grab her arm and lead her to walk properly.

It took nearly half an hour of security checks and check-in verification before this group of five students finally made it inside the labyrinthine foundation floor of Helmholm Prison.

In the intertwining of light and shadow, the foundation floor of Helmholm Prison slowly unfolded its ancient and heavy curtain, which seemed to be a forgotten space, with every corner immersed in the construction and boundaries in the style of the Magic Realm.

Stepping into the wide hall, what meets your eyes are the intricate crystal pipes and magic-guided instruments spreading on the towering walls, and occasionally you can hear the muffled echoes of magic operations in the distance; these legacies of the magic world civilization emanate a deep and never-ending light, and seem to be telling a story about power and destruction.

Beneath the dangerous mechanical constructs was the final security checkpoint, and the core area of the foundation layer that Huberian was arriving at at the moment – the giant dark purple mirror.

For Huberian, who had often challenged Shadow Worlds and Artificial Shadow Worlds in the Southern Continent, she was familiar with the structure of such things.

The Demon Race had adopted a magical engineering shaped like the Artificial Shadow World’s Void Gate, connecting the prison’s base level to the underground levels with this sole interface, and the passage of each level downwards had to conform to the prison boundary’s rules and regulations, or else it couldn’t be broken through by any other means.

The base level is merely a preparation space for the trainee guards participating in the test, and they can check out of the prison at any time, and the work of the police officers on this level is also on the clerical side, without having to come into contact with the prisoners.

Entering the negative layer, with the danger of the examination will really begin, each down a layer, will be much more dangerous and can not be reversed to return to the previous layer, can only go all the way down, in the negative three or negative six layers can choose to end the examination and return to the basic layer.

Today is also three more, there is a chapter behind

(End of chapter)