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Chapter 17 - There Are A Number Of Them?

He suddenly felt lucky that when he was captured it was just him, if another six had been captured as well, by now he would have died.

 

"What exactly is the next game?" Bray asked inquisitively.

 

"Hah, the guards call it the race of death..."

 

"Race of death?"

 

"It's like this, we will have multiple world beasts chasing us while we dodge obstacles that can come from anywhere.".

 

"Wait, world beasts?" Bray looked at Sloven curiously, this was the first time he was hearing about the world beasts.

 

"Yes, world beasts," Sloven replied calmly. At this moment, it looked as though he was talking with an old friend, and his tone was calm without any hint of nervousness.

 

"There are other races that can never get the same form as us, these races are called world beasts. Most of them have a unique way of increasing their strength, while most if not all of them drop something that looks like a bead, a core we call it."

 

"A core?" Bray raised an eyebrow at Sloven, "What exactly is a core? What does it do?"

 

"A core can normally be absorbed, but there is a high demand for it because there are three certain cores that can enhance an ability by one level."

 

"Enhance an ability by one level?" Bray looked stupefied. What sort of core was it that it could enhance an ability directly by one level?

 

"Yes, it is quite surprising, but that is the truth, there have been a couple of people over the years that have lucked out and ended up lucky."

 

"You mean..."

 

"Yeah, you guessed it right."

 

Bray thought for a moment, his gaze flickering. Damn, I will really like to get my hands on a bunch of those cores, then I will not have to kill others in order to get an enhanced ability.

 

If he could get his hand on that ability-enhancing core, he would definitely be set for life, unfortunately, throughout the years, the pattern for dropping that kind of beast core could not be determined.

 

Seeing that Bray was enticed, Sloven nodded lightly. He dug his hand into his robes and then took out an old paper, "This is the map I was able to get my hands on, it seems to be a detailed map of this place."

 

Bray's gaze turned strange before he collected the map. At this moment he had felt that something was extremely wrong, this wasn't the same Sloven he knew, it wasn't just a matter of not being nervous anymore, it seemed as though Sloven had been planning his escape for a while.

The problem, and one of the flaws he had revealed, was the fact that he directly took out a map and handed it to Bray. Where could one get a detailed map of this dungeon here? It wasn't possible to get it, they were prisoners! How would they be able to move around while studying this place?

 

Despite having all these thoughts, Bray didn't reveal any change in emotion, he just calmly went through everything as though he were unbothered, collecting the map from Sloven.

 

As his gaze turned to the map, his eyes widened in surprise. This piece of paper looked like something someone had scribbled on the paper, another case was that it wasn't just one person that had scribbled on the map.

 

There were a couple of names written on the map, it seemed as though they had prepared it for someone to take it and continue the mission of escape, as though they didn't want their dream of escape to die with them but rather to continue to live on in the next generation.

 

Bray looked at Sloven, at his moment, he couldn't hide his shock.

 

Seeing his expression, Sloven awkwardly coughed lightly, "I found this a few days back when I was going through the things in my cell."

 

"That is a detailed map of the prison," he immediately changed the topic, "although there are still numerous places not recorded, one can still use this as a guide to escape this prison."

 

Bray nodded. Sloven was right, one with enough strength could definitely use this map to escape from the prison, System, make a copy of this map using the shop.

 

[Creating…]

 

[Analyzing details of map.]

 

[Finalizing process…]

 

[Done.]

 

[Automatically added to the storage space.]

 

Nice. Bray had an idea that Sloven would probably use this map to be ahead of him in most things, so he had created a copy in order to not be bound by the other party map.

 

His gaze then turned to the map in his hand to study it, if he gave it back like that, Sloven would definitely feel that something was wrong. Although he acted timidly after talking at length with him today, Bray discovered he wasn't actually as stupid as he seemed.

 

In fact, he was quite wise, and if one chose to underestimate him, he would definitely be in for a loss. Aside from that, Sloven also possessed an S-grade ability, of course Bray hadn't forgotten this fact yet.

 

Suddenly, as soon as his eyes landed on the map, Bray's eyes widened and bulged out to a certain extent, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Right on the map, if what this map had written down was true, then his chance of survival had just been reduced to a mere 1%.

 

Written on the map were some scribbles, this was done towards the edge of the map, he could see a big round circle that encircled the whole map paper, and written right there were the words beginner prison.

 

There was a peculiar red dot. Bray guessed that it was the location of where they were staying, does this mean there are other prisons like this one? Bray wasn't too sure, he immediately turned and asked Sloven, since he brought the map, surely he had an understanding of the prison structure.

 

"This outer description, is it right? This is just one of the many world prisons." Bray asked frantic.

 

"Yes, there are in fact a number of them."