Three Hundred and Ninety-Seven, the Beginning that Has Been Hidden for 8 Years

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"Crack...crack..."

The gravel rolled and fell from the surrounding walls and ground continuously, causing crisp and crisp sounds.

Thick smoke and dust covered the surroundings, and diffused towards a pothole leading to the outside that appeared at an unknown time, exposed to the outside sunlight, rising along the tower of Paradise, and blowing into the sky .

Noah, who was standing in the messy and bumpy passageway as if he had been attacked by an explosion, patted the clothes stuck to his body, flicked the dust away, and then looked around.

"Well…"

I saw that Hugh, Simon, Woolley, and Millianna were lying on the ground in the front, back, left, and right of Noah, and their bodies were all dirty, with He groaned in pain, and moved his body with difficulty.

The particularly obvious trauma was mainly due to the impact in the body, and now the whole body has fallen into a state similar to paralysis and pain, and it is difficult to stand up.

Seeing this, Noah frowned.

"Is it too hard? How do you ask questions like this?"

Just after finishing this sentence, there was a loud noise from the other side of the passage.

"It's over there!"

"That's where the explosion sounded just now!"

"Quick! Go and have a look!"

"Go and have a look!"

Accompanied by such a sound, a burst of chaotic footsteps also came without rhythm, making Noah's brows more and more frown.

Looking at lying on the ground. Hugh, Simon, Woolley, and Milianna, who were still struggling to move their bodies, Noah pondered for a while. sighed.

"Forget it, let's wait until we ask clearly before acting."

Saying so. Noah was about to walk towards Hugh, Simon, Woolley, and Milianna, but his footsteps suddenly stopped. He frowned again, raised his head, and looked above his head.

Looking at the ceiling with nothing but stones, Noah suddenly smiled.

"So that's the case, has it been discovered?".

Leaving this sentence, Noah acted as if nothing happened. Withdrew his gaze.

So, when all the soldiers gathered towards this side came to the scene, not only Noah, Lianxiu, Simon, Woolley, and Milianna disappeared, leaving only a group of soldiers A messy, chaotic scene.

...

On the top floor of the Tower of Paradise, Gerald, who was sitting on a throne-like position, looked at the crystal ball on his armrest, and met the eyes of Noah who suddenly raised his head reflected on it.

Look at the smile on the crystal ball. Withdrawing his gaze, Gerald stretched out his hand to Noah, who took Hugh, Simon, Woolley, and Milianna away, and touched the crystal ball. The above image suddenly disappeared.

"Sure enough, the guy who can drive such a golden beast can't be a simple person, who can easily defeat Xio, Simon, Woolley, and Milianna. If you add the golden beast, it seems. My side It's also a little dangerous." Gerald showed a rare troubled expression and hesitated.

"Do you want to call 'him' back? "

This idea just came up but was denied by Gerald.

"There are more important plans over there. You can't give up because of an accident, let's see the situation again."

...

Here is an empty room in the Tower of Paradise.

The room seemed to belong to an ordinary soldier. Not only did it not have any decoration, but there were also beds lined up one after another.

Obviously, this is not a room that belongs to anyone alone, but a large room similar to a dormitory where a large number of soldiers live.

"Boom!"

In such a room, Hugh, Simon, Woolley, and Milianna were tied up with thick ropes that they did not know where to find, and they were roughly thrown on the ground with their buttocks on the ground.

"It hurts!" Milianna felt as if her butt was not her own, tears welled up in her eyes.

"Damn it!" Although Xio also felt the pain, he struggled like a rebellious teenager regardless of the situation.

"let me go!"

"!" Even Woolley exclaimed, and that voice actually contained a little despair.

"It's not gorgeous at all! It's not handsome at all!"

Only Simon, sitting there obediently, just kept looking at Noah, his eyes flickering.

After the battle just now, although the group of four did not suffer any obvious damage, their magic power was basically exhausted, and they were in a state where they could no longer use magic.

And magic power is equivalent to life force.

When the magic power was exhausted to the point that they couldn't even use magic, Xio, Simon, Woolley, and Milianna felt that they had no energy in their bodies. Except for Xio, basically no one wanted to consume their energy and struggle.

Therefore, instead of doing useless work, it is better to buy time to recover the magic power. In that case, an ordinary rope will not be able to trap them.

This point, Simon understands, Millianna understands, and even Woolley who has been yelling understands, so they didn't do anything. Only Xio seemed to be completely unable to accept the fact that he was defeated, or he was really unwilling. Constantly struggling.

Looking at these four people, Noah cast his eyes condescendingly, without any emotion in his voice.

"Say! Why do you say that Erza betrayed you!"

Xio glared at Noah viciously, and even Miliana pouted her mouth with an angry look, ignoring Noah's inquiry.

",, Don't you know that negotiations are generally based on mutual compromise?". Woolley responded to Noah, but he showed a handsome smile as if he was a movie actor who deliberately played handsome.

"You let us go first, then we can consider answering you, how about it?"

"Is that so?" Noah laughed, laughing so much that the four of the captured group felt chills.

"That is to say, if you don't give you some punishment, you won't answer my question obediently, right?"

"Punishment?" Huo, Wuli, and Milianna were shocked, and expressions of fear appeared on their faces.

As slaves in the tower of paradise under the rule of the magic order that believed in black magic in the past, Milianna and others must have been tortured at that time.

Now, after eight years, encountering this situation again must have reminded them of what happened at that time, and this is why they feel fear?

The only Simon who remained silent sighed, raised his head, and looked at Noah.

"Elusha, like us, was once a slave in this tower."

Hearing this, Noah's face sank.

Sure enough, was Erza also a slave here?

"Simon!" Hugh yelled.

"Okay, Hugh." Simon said to Hugh expressionlessly.

"There's nothing to hide, is there?".

Hugh gritted his teeth immediately, snorted coldly, and turned his head away.

"Now, all the slaves who are still in this tower are the slaves who were captured from other places by the people of the magic order eight years ago." Simon said in a deep voice.

"The same is true for Erza. She was captured by those members of the magic sect. We met at that time."

Under Simon's telling, Noah finally gradually learned about Erza's unbearable past.

Erza, Hugh, Simon, Woolley, and Milianna are all slaves who were captured here by the magic sect who believed in black magic, trying to build the "R system" through labor.

Including that Gerald, the same.

Without enough food, poor sleep, and being abused from time to time, Elusa and the others have been living in this hellish place, driven like tools, doing coolies every day.

It is conceivable how cruel this is for children.

But where there is repression, there is resistance.

By chance, Hugh, who was still a child at the time, proposed an escape plan, but was discovered.

Xio, who was questioned by the members of the Magic Order, did not have the courage to stand up and admit that he was the one who proposed the plan. As a result, Erza was arrested and tortured as a scapegoat.

It was at that time that Erza lost an eye.

And taking that time as an opportunity, the slaves of the Tower of Paradise rebelled and began to riot.

Originally, that riot would have ended in success, because Erza awakened magic in the process, thus defeating all the magic soldiers.

However, at this time, an accident happened.

Hugh, Simon, Woolley, Milianna and others who were waiting to escape on the boat were told something by Gerald who suddenly appeared in front of them.

Erza, immersed in the power of magic, betrayed. (to be continued...)