Lucien had been in prison for 5 days, it was 4 days ago when a high ranking city officer visited him. Lucien had unintentionally got emotional during the conversation, but he had regained his composure.
Lucien originally planned on laying low and spending his time here peacefully until his trial, but today they were moving him from the city guard jail cell to the city prison in the serious crimes block. In that place he would have to fight to establish his dominance if he wished to survive with the rest of the murder, an serious crimes convict.
Lucien munched quietly on a hard piece of bread, he heard a guard approaching his cell.
"Hey kid, it's time get up"
He unlocked the cell, Lucien stood up,
"hands"
Lucien extended his arms in front of him, holding the bread in his mouth
The guard handcuffed his wrists, he led Lucien holding the chain extending from Luciens handcuffs.
Lucien was led outside to a large prisoner carriage transport outside with thick wooden posts enclosed with thick steel bars, with 20 city guard's escorting. There was 5 other men inside who were chained to a bar each and were spaced out between each other. They were of varying ages and sizes but they all had the air of someone dangerous and crazy.
The guard glanced at Lucien, -is a child really going to ride with them?What are they thinking?! This kids going to get eaten alive in there even if the carriage has magic applied to suppress aura user's mana! But orders are orders, and this kids not ordinary either, the scars on his hands and body, I don't feel any aura but those eyes of his are terrifying -
The guard shook off his thoughts, "its just a job" he muttered to himself shutting the door to the prison carriage.
"It's closed have a good trip!" He shouted to the carriage driver
"Thanks" The guard replied sarcastically
Lucien sat in a corner with his back against the bars, he was watching all the men who were eyeing him now. Lucien made use of his bangs to hide where his eyes were looking as he kept his head downcast.
All of the men inside were quiet for the first few minutes of the ride but eventually someone spoke it was. The larger and more muscular man of the bunch with red tattoos over his body, "I think I speak for the rest of us but why are you here boy?"
The other men glanced and nodded as they sat chained to a bar spaced apart,Lucien contemplated whether to speak or not.
"Murder"
The man chuckled, "so am I, how about the rest of ya'll?"
Lucien got the sense this man was a bandit and someone accustomed to being strong, - a dangerous opponent-
"Murder"
"Murder"
The lanky and dark skinned man both answered, Lucien noticed the dark skinned mans accent was Marcellan, the large union of lords from the south. Now only a man in his 20's who was somewhat good looking hesitated answer.
"Well?"
"I think he's embarrassed! keke"
"Why? We're all criminals here! Even the child!"
The man hesitated, "well erm its uh rape"
The carriage was momentarily silent, before it erupted in laughter.
"Haha well there's always one!" the large man chuckled "well who was it?"
The handsome man relaxed a bit as the other men seemed to be laughing, "well it wasn't just one...."
The large man laughed even harder, "HAHAHA! What did I expect?! Well then tiny man how many was it?"
"Yeah how many?!" The lanky man also seemed interested
But the dark skinned man was silent
The handsome man chuckled, "9"
"9! wow tiny man you are a piece of work for sure!" The big man laughed, and the rest awkwardly laughed as the man looked at them.
"Well then let's play a game!"
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40 minutes
They arrived at the prison, a group of large stone buildings just outside the city walls. The guards unlocked their restraints, and opened the door.
"Get out ! Get out now!" the guards were wielding wooden batons, there were 10 extra prison guards in addition to the 20 guards from the transports escort.
The guards swarmed them, as they walked out, one of the guards who had a golden pauldron on the shoulder. "Hey get the mana restraints on the big guy and the lanky guy first they're 3 star aura users! Escort the rest into the vetting room!"
The lanky guy made a move attacking the guards he emitted a force that was superhuman crumpling the guards helmet as he punched the mans head.
"Subdue that man!" A swarm of guards beat down him at all sides beating down on the man.
Lucien was escorted roughly by a pair of guards, he heard he commotion of screams and yelling as guards from all around swarmed the courtyard.
Lucien sat a half hour later in his prison uniform in a room large room, with the 4 of the 5 other convicts. In front of the guard with the golden pauldron from the courtyard, he stood on a small platform, with a dozen guards behind him.
"Well you bastards had one hell of an entrance, I can pleasantly say your compatriot was killed in his attempt to escape." He looked at them, searching their eyes for a reaction.
When he got none he continued, "well unfortunately he killed 4 guards and injured 8 others before he was killed. Since the one responsible is dead and I'm not kind enough to let this go, all of you are going to have take responsibility for this. So 20 hits each, and no head shots understand?"
The guards behind him nodded, responding in unison "yes sir"
"Good, take them straight to their cells afterward"
He said before he left, the guards smiled taking out their batons.
"I get the big guy"
"Sure, I get the Marcellan"
"What about the kid?"
"Meh why don't you take him"
"ah I can' t hit a kid!"
"Just do it!"
"Fine"
Lucien simply laid down on the ground and turtled up, closing his eyes before the beating started.
whap!
whack!
Lucien grit his teeth, -it doesn't hurt as bad as I thought, is the guard taking it easy on me because I'm a kid. Well I'm not going to complai-
"urgh!"
The rest were screaming in pain, Lucien curled up even more, -I can endure this!-