"Kael Ardyn, so that's your name. Well, anyways, you should take a rest for now. This prison is worse than any ordinary prison. If I were you, I would have used every single second to rest." said Willy, as he fell asleep.
Kael Ardyn took a rest as Willy mentioned.
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The next morning, guards unlocked the door and called out to Kael.
"Hey, wake up you little piece of shit! If you don't want to get in trouble then move your ass, it's working day!" Exclaimed Guard.
After that, the guard left as the gate remained unlocked for Kael to move on.
Kael went out from his cell, he could see tons of prison cells around, with bloods all over the place, tons of skeletons of probably previous prisoners.
The most horrible sight Kael noticed, were the skinny and unhealthy looking prisoners. Their body looked horrible in shape as if they were being abused. All of them looking half dead, their legs wobbling, and mindlessly moving forward.
They were all injured heavily as well but were forced to move out of their cell and work in prison.
"That's right, you saw something you should not have at this young age. Btw, I am around your age as well. I am 17. And they recently captured me too." said Willy, reaching out to Kael.
"Furthermore, they all are guild members. They are official adventurer like you and me. That's right, they target mostly guild members as if they hold a grudge or something." said Willy.
"Well, whatever. I am here to investigate what these mfs are actually trying to do. They are making us dig deeper into tunnels, to search something specific." continued Willy.
"I hope you could help me with this, I am planning to expose their horrible acts they are committing here. But as you can see, I am afraid I am also trapped for real. Let's go, I will explain more on the way." said Willy, began to move as urging Kael to come with him.
Kael silently walked besides Willy and went upstairs as they could see a beautiful sky but a depressing sight around them.
"Welcome to this hell, Kael. This is the darkest thing they ever do." said Willy.
Kael could see guards giving prisoners almost near impossible tasks, whether the task is important or not is secondary concern to them. The guards seems to be enjoying the sufferings of prisoners.
As Willy said, Kael could tell they are all guild members captured by The Saints.
"The worse part they say is that this is small sacrifice for the greater good for this Valerith Kingdom we live in." said Willy.
One of the guard reached out to Willy and said with a disrespectful tone.
"Hey asshole, I think we told you to teach this new prisoner the rules and regulations and how things works here so he won't trouble us! You are not allowed to wander for long so be quick and get to work! You understood?" exclaimed Guard.
"Yes, we apologise. I will tour him and explain all rules so he couldn't make any troubles." said Willy.
"Good, act like this and maybe you can die peacefully here in prison with an honour that you worked under The Saints till your last breath."
After that, guard left for his duty.
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As Kael and Willy walked around, Willy explained necessary rules. Eventually they witnessed a sight they shouldn't have.
"Please have mercy, not my friend. He can't work any longer! Look at his health, he can't even move an inch." said Prisoner.
"Oh? You siding with your friend there and defying us The Saints? You insolent fool, we provide you with good everyday and you can't even work for us?" said Guard with genuine confusion on why a prisoner is defying them.
"Th-That is not what I meant to say sir! But-"
"But what? If you really are loyal to us then you should be loyal to us even if you die!" Exclaimed Guard with anger and shoved the prisoner harder.
"You and your friends, hereby sentenced to death. Do not resist and follow me to the way toward gallow." said Guard, with a cold voice.
"N-No! Please you can kill me or punish me but my friend! Please!" Exclaimed Prisoner as he begged for his friend's life.
However guards came in and captured them both, leading them to gallow.
"Oh man, this is becoming too common here as prisoners are already pushed to their limits. It's sorry state, looking at their health. But still, this is going too far. They always do this as if we are tools! And I am helpless to help them." Exclaimed Willy with his fists clenched tightly.
Every prisoner including, Willy and Kael, followed along and were afraid that two more innocent life are going to be eradicated.
As two prisoners went ahead and stood there, their eyes were looking as if they wanted to be saved by someone.
"Any last wish? We can atleast grant that one wish of yours as long as it's valid and within our rules." saod Guard.
"I-"
Before the prisoner could say something, the surface where he stood unlocked and he met his demise.
"Oops! My bad! My hands slipped you see! Poor two souls could not got a chance to wish for something." Exclaimed Guard, uttering those words with no weight behind his words. He intentionally did it after all.
"Shit....those fckers." Muttered Willy, gritting his teeth, fists clenched and avoiding to see the sorry state of two deceased.
"Fools, why are you all standing here? Well good you are all here on the other hand. As you can see, if you deny our orders then you will all face the same fate. So move your ass and die peacefully, please we don't want to get our hands dirty so work hard!" Announced Guard, warning everyone not to disobey orders.
"I don't know for how long my companions are going to end up like those two. It's been happening frequently. Anyways let's move on." said Willy, trying to hide his rage as far as he could.
Kael observed this all and came to a conclusion that the The Saints are far more dangerous than everyone thinks.
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To be continued...