My body didn’t age much due to the effect of the time acceleration magic being only for my mind. With 16, almost 17 years of age, I would be regarded as an adult. I didn’t feel much change though.

My looks almost stayed exactly the same as before. Perhaps I grew a bit. I was neither tall nor small and even with all that physical training, I wasn’t that muscular. My muscles were still visible though. Overall, I’d say I actually looked quite normal; on the outside.

“Let’s go outside shall we?”(Sepp)

“Yes. I haven’t seen the sun in quite some time.”(Me)

I put my faked smile back up the way it was before and we went up the stairs.

Even if I created an artificial small version of the sun in my pocket dimension, it was nowhere near the real deal. I was looking forward to see and feel the real sun again.

We went in one row and I had to be in the middle of it. After we started to climb up that dungeon like prison, I heard a lot of noise. I closed my eyes and concentrated. The noise turned into shouts and screams. They mostly consisted of men and most of them had a vulgar tone.

“The noise is coming from the other prisoners. It’s always been like that. They just won’t shut up.”(Sepp)

Sepp noticed my behaviour and answered my question right before I could ask.

“They are the worst scum of the country, so they are being locked away in the deepest… second deepest part of the dungeon.”(Lucy)

Eh. So Arthur just locks his troublemakers away?

I suddenly remembered something.

“Shouldn’t we like put up some hoods or something like that to cover our appearances?”(Me)

“Nah. It’s annoying. The prisoners won’t be leaving here anyways and everyone else in the castle knows us, so… I prefer not to.”(Lucy)

“I see. Aren’t you quite famous then?”(Me)

“Your foundation was a crucial factor for that, but yes the nightmare is known around the world and in the past year we even got accepted as the sixth main continent.”(Lucy)

Even though it was something trivial, I picked it up. If my little island became a main continent, than it should provide enough space for a few thousands of people to live in, which meant that it grew bigger.

“So the black continent kept expanding?”(Me)

“It did. A lot.”(Sepp)

Lucy seemed proud and stuck out her small chest.

“It is almost the same size as one of the five main race’s continent. We even have problems, because we have too much space.”(Lucy)

I already ran some simulations in my head regarding the continent and as my mana pool got bigger, the land should have expanded as well, after all, in some way I’m somewhat similar as it’s dungeon master. If I get stronger the dungeon would as well.

“What about the other races? Before, you said you found Spirit?”(Me)

“Arthur helped out a lot. We had a conference with all the other kings. Because more and more strange things started to occur even in their countries, they agreed on a temporary alliance, until the danger is over.”(Lucy)

One of my small goals was achieved with just that. It seemed that in the end I wasn’t really needed. The fear of what is about to come and a little bit of authority was more than enough. It was still fun to create my own force though.

“Haha. Isn’t that the little princess?”

“That damn dog is here as well.”

All sorts of insults were thrown at us when we passed through the other cells.

“What’s your problem kid?”

That shout was directed at me. I just ignored it and kept going forward. The shouts got louder though. I still kept up my smile, even though it became really hard given the situation.

“Don’t mind them. It’s always like that.”(Sepp)

If it were always like that, Sepp would have had a hard time bringing me my food all the time.

“Hey you! Come here for a second.”

One of them winked me over to his cell. Sepp wanted me to ignore him and continue, but I was interested to what he wanted to do, so I went over to that cell.

“What do you want?”(Me)

I stood at some distance away from him.

“Come a little bit nearer. It’s something I can’t say out loud.”

I did what he wanted, because I had nothing to fear. I had many barriers casted around me. When I stood face to face with him, he spat at me. Without the need to react, his saliva disappeared right before it could even touch me.

A vein popped up on my forehead.

The other prisoners didn’t see what happened and thought that I was disgraced by this fellow. They all started laughing aloud. The only one who saw what really happened made a puzzled face.

When I turned around, I saw that Sepp and Lucy had pale faces. They knew my character and that I wouldn’t let it slip just like that.

“Say… They won’t leave here anyways. Is it important when or how they die?”(Me)

Even though there was a loud laughter, my words reached the two of them. I had to restrain myself to the fullest, but it wasn’t really useful. I still struck both of them who heard me with fear.

“N…No it’s not.”(Sepp)

“Then it is best you two go ahead.”(Me)

Both of them silently went up ahead of me. I still kept up my smile until the two of them were out of sight.

“Haha. Boy what ya gonna do? You killing us? Don’t make me laugh even more. Haha.”

Let’s start with the culprit.

I casted a sound barrier.

I stood face to face with the one that spit at me. This time around, I let some mana burst out though. The whole room instantly went silent. He was surprised and stumbled backwards until he fell onto his butt.

“I’ll start with you. The others will have to wait a bit.”(Me)

I flicked once. His right arm was gone.

“One.”(Me)

Followed by a loud and painful scream, I continued my little torture in a bored monotonous voice. I flicked again and his left leg was gone.

“Two.”(Me)

As soon as the scream got louder, the other prisoners started realising what was just happening.

Snip. Now the left arm and the right leg were gone.

“Three, …four.”(Me)

Tears weren’t enough, that guy even pissed himself because of the pain.

“You are really soft. Where did you find the courage to do something that stupid? At least you gave me a reason to kill everyone down here.”(Me)

He opened his mouth and wanted to say something.

Snip. His head appeared in my hand. I held it near my ear.

“Oops. What did you want to say? I couldn’t hear you.”(Me)

I waited a bit and acted like I was waiting for an answer.

“Whatever.”(Me)

It disappeared into the void as well. I put up my smile again and nicely asked a question into the whole room.

“Who’s next? We still have 244 seconds left to play.”(Me)

Everyone turned away. No one wanted to be next. I continued my onslaught for quite a while.

…

“A… Are you finished?”(Sepp)

Sepp and Lucy waited for me upstairs.

“Yes. I cleaned up the trash. As predicted, it took me exactly 300 seconds.”(Me)

I said with a satisfied smirk. Both of them looked down to where I came from with a grave expression. I twitched my shoulders and went ahead. I opened one of the castle’s doors and went outside.

“Sigh. It has been a long time since I left the castle.”(Me)

I said after taking a deep breath and taking a glance at the sun.