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Zion didn't know how to answer this, so he shut his mouth and kept fiddling with them. He frowned. This shouldn't be the time to escape without finding out about the guards' schedule. So he kept the pins back in his pockets and sat on the ground as he leaned back on the wall. "We should wait."

"Why?" Lia couldn't take it anymore. She had started to hate these prisons now. "You already know I had been living in prison for quite a while in the Vanne kingdom, don't you? I hate it! Can't you help me escape?"

Zion got a headache. He really didn't want to deal with this kind of princess, so he ignored her and closed his eyes in an attempt to have a peaceful sleep until he could figure out the schedule of the soldiers. But Lia wasn't done with him. She glared at the adjacent prison and said in anger, "Help me escape! Right now, or else I will use my sword and kill you!"

"Help yourself." Zion acted cool as he crossed his arms over his chest. "But I don't think you'll be able to use magic here."

"Oh really?" Lia suddenly realized how stupidly she behaved in anger. She could have used her hidden belt and escaped! She didn't think twice before dragging out the sword from her belt. She had specifically created this belt such that it would be easier to keep the sword. Even dragging it in and out shouldn't be difficult. So she wasn't worried whether she would be able to keep it inside at a faster speed if the guards were to arrive all of a sudden.

After that, she used several hand signs as the sword illuminated, but before she could use another set of hand signs, the Qi that had transferred to the sword was sucked away. She frowned and looked at the sword in her hand. Did someone just suck away her power? But who? Before she could reply, the guards opened the door all of a sudden. She hastily put back her sword on her waist and pretended to be asleep in her cell.

The guards came toward her cell and glared at her. "You dare to pretend. Who was it that used magic just now? If not you, was it your ghost who cast a spell?!"

Another guard's eyes squinted as he said, "Didn't I tell you she would use magic? Now look at what happened. We have to check her thoroughly again."

The guards were about to check her when the human, who was shut adjacent to Lia's prison, took out a hand clock and threw it at the soldiers' feet. Then with a frightened expression on his face, he glanced at them. "I think….I think it might be this clock. My master had purchased this magical clock for me. I was just playing with it…."

This magic clock was another one of the elf products that they would make and sell in the Viridis kingdom and outside just meant for the kids to play. It would speak out the time with a simple click, and it made Zion remember the speaking clock in his smartphone. Since it was created out of magic, no one would doubt whether or not he actually used it.

Let's say if someone had sucked away the power of the magic clock, it wouldn't mean that it's power would have been exhausted. The elves would create these products effectively while making sure that it had inexhaustible power. So the magical materials created by the elves would only stop working if they broke apart. Magical powers, on the other hand, would never be exhausted and would only vanish in thin air if the material became too old to be used.

Such a product had created a sensation across the world, which is what made the elves' products so famous.

As for why he purchased that magic clock behind Lia's back….

That was a simple story. It had been a few days since he had stepped inside this kingdom and had gotten a small break, so without giving Lia a heads up, he took her money and purchased a bunch of things. He didn't know why he was even getting these stuff when he wasn't one of those people who liked shopping. But he did have a hunch that those strange magical things would certainly help him someday, and today, that hunch proved to be right.

The guards took the clock and stared at it for a moment before stuffing it inside their pockets. They could see traces of magic on its surface, so they didn't doubt the slave's words, and glared at him. "Did we give you permission to play? Do you think this is a playground for you?!"

Zion acted pitiful like a human who was really afraid of getting scolded.

The guards saw the human's frightened expressions and felt satisfied for some reason. They scoffed and left the prison while shutting the iron door behind them. Just when they left, the detective's expressions returned to normal, and he coldly glanced at the adjacent prison. "Now, you owe me one."

Lia pursed her lips and glared at her right side as she stuck her head to the iron bars of the prison. Then, spoke through her gritted teeth. "You did it on purpose!"

"So?" Zion shrugged. "I just wanted to let you know that you can't always win, and having so much pride isn't beneficial for your mental and physical health."

"You-" Lia didn't have words. Before today, she never thought that her human slave could be so shameless and black-hearted! She glared at that spot one more time before she walked inside and leaned against the wall again. After that, she opened her mouth and said, "You better stay inside this cell as long as you can. When we leave, I'm going to show you who's the boss here!"

Zion sneered in his heart and refused to say another word. He didn't know why even he was bickering with this dhampir princess, but since he didn't have his system, he might as well treat her as his entertainment.

Now that he thought about his system, he frowned. Just why did 007 suddenly go for an upgrade? Did the Methu man figure out something about the black-cloaked man and decided to increase the security level? He was sure that the system would have told the man everything about what had transpired in the Vanne kingdom, so it wasn't strange that the Methu man called the system all of a sudden.

The question was, what was it that the Methu man figured out? Was it also related to the destruction of this world?