Genius Salsu of the World to Be Destroyed - Chapter 60
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Episode 60
The ghost of a warden from the twisted prison.
They weren’t monsters from the beginning.
Because, at first, they were just normal elf guards.
But at some point, some of them became unable to leave the prison.
No one knew why this happened.
Was it due to some accident, or an administrative error, or some conspiracy?
The elven guards of the Twisted Prison were locked in there for hundreds of years without ever being able to leave.
The dark aura unique to the twisted prison began to consume them, and they became fanatically obsessed with their mission to fight against it.
As for my mission as a guard.
But at some point, time began to wear away at their bodies and egos.
So they became ghosts.
A being stuck between life and death.
A monster that comes back to life even after being killed.
In such a situation, there was only one factor that maintained their form.
My mission is to be a guard at this prison.
The mission is to brand prisoners with a branding iron and guard this place so that those branded cannot leave.
So Youngsoo exposed his bare skin in front of them.
So that they brand themselves with a branding iron.
Cheeeeeee!
There was a loud noise, the sound of burning flesh, and smoke billowing out.
The smell of grilling meat tickled Youngsu’s nose.
If you get hit directly with the soldering iron like this, you will almost certainly pass out.
This was because, apart from the damage, the pain caused by the heat was immense.
But Youngsoo’s expression was extremely calm.
—-
[Skill] ‘Sensation Blocking’ activated.
-Pain OFF
—-
This is because the pain sensation was blocked just before the iron was struck.
Thanks to that, unlike the raiders who came before, he didn’t faint.
However, since it did not block my sense of smell, I could not avoid the unpleasant smell of my flesh burning.
Well, it was still better to smell something bad than to pass out from the burning pain.
Push-
After the support was over, the bastard took off the soldering iron.
A clear earthquake-shaped scar in the shape of a cartwheel remained on Youngsu’s chest.
“Phew… … .”
Yeongsu took down the clothes he had taken off and covered the stigma.
The sensory blockage was not lifted.
Even if I took the soldering iron off, the pain would last longer, and it was obvious that I would faint right away.
‘The moment I pass out here, it’s over. I have to come to my senses somehow.’
Well, anyway, with this I’ve achieved the entry requirements for .
Yeongsu quietly looked at the ghosts of the guards.
Then-
Bam!
The guards grabbed Youngsu from both sides and dragged him into the prison.
Without any further attacks or torture, they simply led Youngsu into the prison.
Yeongsu began to walk down a path that countless other conquerors had been unable to walk, with great ease.
‘There are only two things left in the minds of these ghosts: branding the prisoners, and keeping the branded people inside the prison.’
So it’s like this.
The only people who can be in prison are prisoners.
But even though he entered the prison territory, he was not branded.
He looks like a criminal but he doesn’t have a brand, so let’s brand him and make him a criminal.
After that, let’s take him into the prison and incarcerate him.
This was the algorithm in the ghosts’ heads.
Even the cognitive structure that distinguished races disappeared, so it was impossible to distinguish whether the target of the stigma was an elf or a human.
So, if you were caught by them and branded, you could be escorted into prison with great ease after that.
To be attacked.
This was the most classic strategy for entering the Twisted Prison.
That’s why none of the previous raiders were able to enter the prison.
Because the very idea of quietly taking attacks from the enemy was just too absurd.
And even if you happened to get a brand on your body, it was a problem.
If he didn’t have a sensory deprivation skill like Youngsoo, he would have fainted the moment the brand was imprinted on his bare skin.
Kkieeee-
At the end of the long sewer tunnel, I opened the bars and climbed up, and the interior of the prison finally came into view.
“… No matter how many times I look at it, it’s a structure that I can’t get used to.”
There was a landscape that lived up to the name of the ‘Twisted’ Prison.
* * *
The structure of a prison is inherently simple and linear.
So that it is easy to manage.
But the twisted prison was completely outside these rules.
Because it was literally ‘twisted’.
It wasn’t just that there were a lot of curved surfaces added to the structure.
Everything was twisted here.
The walls were warped, and the cells were placed randomly here and there.
Even the overpasses between the cells were spread out here and there haphazardly.
It wasn’t just the physical structure that was distorted.
Here, even space and gravity were distorted.
There were cells fixed to the ceiling, and guards were able to move around the half-twisted and completely upside-down corridors.
That’s why, even if you get the direction of gravity a little bit confused here, you’ll often end up falling in the wrong direction.
In addition, in the center of the prison was a deep and huge cavity that would kill anyone who fell into it.
In short, it was a prison from which escape was impossible.
So, only the most evil elves were imprisoned here, to the point that even the death penalty was considered lenient.
A mass murderer, a terrorist, or… … .
‘Or a person who conspired to commit suicide.’
For the elves, for whom gods and religion were life itself, those who attempted to kill the gods were unforgivable, extremely evil villains.
So, everyone who had ever planned to commit suicide was locked up here.
It was they who Youngsu came to see.
To be exact, ‘Swas the Murderer’.
‘hmm…….’
Youngsoo looked around and found the cell where Swaus was being held.
It wasn’t hard to find him since I had memorized his cell number.
‘There you are.’
That’s when I found out where Swaus was trapped.
Phew!
Youngsu was thrown into the prison cell by the ghosts of the prison guards.
A solitary confinement cell so narrow that it was impossible to even lie down straight.
There was no bed, no blanket, no window, no toilet, not even a light.
Clank.
After locking Youngsu in the cell, the guards locked the cell’s iron door and disappeared somewhere.
“hmm…….”
Yeongsu watched the backs of the guards walking away.
I was thinking of just sitting in this cell until they were out of sight.
“Swaus… … .”
A time when I was trapped in a past game.
Swaus was one of Youngsu’s powerful companion NPCs.
Moreover, he is also well-versed in elven techniques.
‘The elves have many magical skills that humans don’t have. In order to easily destroy them, we must recruit Swaus.’
Swaus, the pretender of the murder.
He didn’t intend to kill himself from the beginning.
Because he had risen to the rank of archbishop.
That position was absolutely not one that could be reached through trickery or deception.
Swath’s faith was genuine.
The problem was that the faith was too deep.
Swaus was curious about everything about the gods, so he began to study secretly.
About the 13 gods served by the elves, how they exist, what kind of graces they bestow, and in what way.
The position of Archbishop is one where one can access all the documents and materials stored in the cathedral if one so desires.
Thanks to this, his research became incredibly detailed and deep.
At first, it was a chaotic research stemming from deep religious beliefs, but as the days passed, the topic of the research began to converge on one point.
Why should we believe in God?
This is a problem called .
Surprisingly, this was not a question born of doubt about faith.
Rather, Swauss believed that at the end of this study, we would find beautiful and exquisite reasons to believe in and worship God.
I believed that I could completely wash away any doubts that might have existed in the hearts of the believers.
The beginning of this study was religious, and the motive was good.
There was no problem.
Rather, it was to the point where I felt a sense of sublimity.
But there was one thing that Swauss had not considered.
It was just greed.
Those who want to take Swaus’ place bypassing him, those who want to wipe out Swaus’s faction for their own glory and shame.
As their desires were tightening around Swauss’s muscles by the minute, the incident occurred.
-What on earth is this blasphemous writing?!
-Killing God?!
-How could a priest write something like this… …!
Someone had taken some of the research material from Swaus’s drawer and made it public.
It contained all sorts of research on God.
Even about how to kill a god.
Of course, the content on Salsin was only one page out of a vast amount of material spanning thousands of pages.
But those who coveted Swaus’s position began to exaggerate the contents of that one page.
Of course, it is true that the mention of murder was a serious offense.
But mentioning one page in passing among thousands of pages was by no means a crime worthy of being locked up in a twisted prison.
-I just wanted to know. Is it such a great sin to want to know more about the one you love?
Despite these cries, Swauss was eventually locked up in a twisted prison.
Even his family and subordinates.
‘Stupid elf bastards.’
Youngsoo knew.
Swaus had not plotted murder, nor was he an elf capable of plotting it.
But ironically, after being locked up in prison, Swauss ended up transforming into someone who really wanted to kill the gods.
Fraudulently accusing him of attempted murder actually made him the real murderer.
‘That’s why I came to pick you up myself.’
Youngsoo glanced out the door.
The guards were far enough away.
Just then, I was about to leave the cell.
Tsk tsk tsk… … .
Large raccoons crawled out of the corners of the room and from the ceiling.
They are at least three times larger than the Earth’s raccoons.
These raccoons were the only source of food and water available to the prisoners in the twisted prison.
However, the venom of the fox causes suffering that can lead to death to the ingestor.
In addition, the foxes had a habit of biting prisoners and sucking their blood.
In the end, you either starve to death or get poisoned and struggle to survive.
The prisoners of the twisted prison were condemned to this easy choice of death.
But that didn’t apply to Youngsoo.
Because no fox could approach Youngsu.
Because of the unicorn horn necklace that Youngsoo wears around his neck.
This is because the raccoons, being powerful venomous creatures, felt intense pain from the purifying energy emitted by the unicorn horn.
“I guess I’ll have to open the door.”
Youngsoo placed his fingertips over the lock on the iron door.
—-
[Skill] ‘Unblocking’ activated.
—-
Clank.
The thick door that had never let any inmates out before swung open helplessly.
Youngsoo went out of the cell.
‘The patrol cycle of the Okjol Ghosts is about 4 minutes and 15 seconds. We have to convince Swaus and take his men out within that time.’
Swaus and his gang consist of ten people in total.
All ten of these people had to be taken out within 4 minutes and 15 seconds.
In fact, it was a nearly impossible operation.
Persuasion, liberation, unity, and escape for 10 elves.
Because I had to do all this within 4 minutes and 15 seconds.
But Youngsoo was confident.
Because I already had all the strategies in my head.
‘Then the first thing to do is… … .’
Navigating safely through gravity-twisted corridors.
To do that, we had to figure out the direction of gravity, which operates in a different direction in each hallway.
Hundreds of corridors connect cells and walls, like bridges.
It seemed difficult to figure out the direction of gravity in corridors that I had not directly walked through.
But Youngsoo had a way to find out without having to step on it himself.
Youngsoo activated one of his skills towards the hallways.
—-
[Skill] ‘Origin of the Forest’ activated.
—-
Shhhhhhh!
Countless flower pollen began to scatter on Youngsoo’s forearm.