Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, Vol. 3 by Sazane Kei

Author:Sazane, Kei [Sazane, Kei]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2020-04-28T07:00:00+00:00

2

It was slowly growing dark.

This was the time of day when the madder-red sky seemed as though it were ablaze as the sun sank behind the tall buildings. The shadows of the twisted spires grew long and stretched across the plots of grass.

One of them was Orelgan.

Even among the prison spires characteristic of the thirteenth state, Orelgan was a place that housed only the most wicked of criminals. The site was surrounded by cold iron fencing, and the windows were adorned with bars.

“It’s not any different from Imperial cells. But the prison seems a generation older than anything in our country.”

They were three levels underground.

Concealing himself in the shadow of a protruding wall, Jhin muttered in a stifled voice.

“Cramped passageways and walls made of stone. The lights are reinforced glass. The cells are made of steel, and just one set of doors weighs over sixty pounds. Opening even one is a pain in the ass.”

“…Right. I agree. They’re not using a mechanical authentication system,” whispered Captain Mismis into his ear. “In the Empire, the doors would be automatic, and if the prisoners had escaped, they would know from the surveillance cameras. But they don’t even have those. Right, Nene?”

“Hmm.” Nene brought up the rear of their three-person line, glancing around the basement floor from the darkness. “I think it would break them.”

“What’s that?”

“I mean, the surveillance cameras would have to be in corners of the ceiling. Like there. But everyone in here is either a witch or a sorcerer, right? Cameras are easy to spot, so any attempted escapees would have broken them already. With their astral power.”

“Oh, right…!” Mismis agreed.

The prisoners could unleash astral power. Even with the Empire’s anti–astral power weapons, signal jamming could interrupt waves of astral power for only two or three seconds max. There was no way to render astral attacks entirely useless.

Which was why these prisons simply had to be strong and durable.

“I guess they can’t use automatic doors, either. A strong astral attack would be able to break through a weak mechanical barrier, and they could make their escape. If I oversaw the surveillance here, I think I’d make it this way, too. A thick stone wall wouldn’t be vulnerable even with fire- or wind-types,” observed Nene.

There was another side to the communications engineer. While she had been enrolled in officer cadet school, she had been scouted as an engineer by the Department of Suppression Weapons Development at the capital. If she hadn’t met Iska, Jhin, and Mismis, she probably would have become a top researcher there.

“Which is why this prison spire was built underground?” asked Mismis.

“Pretty much. It’s hard to imagine, but this works better than making it reach the sky.”

The spire rose five stories above the ground but stretched eleven stories underground. That was the way the Orelgan prison spire had been built. The only way to move around the floors of the entire structure was by stairway. Those stairs were limited to those designated for common use and the emergency exit.

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