Kyle yanked the chains around his wrists with frustration.
“I can’t use my mana…. Ugh…”
He was already angry because even though he could sense Bia through their link she wasn’t replying.
‘Just stay safe for a while.’
He mumbled inwardly and looked at his empty fingers.
“Damn, my hard earn gold coins and thousands of mana stones, those ancient books, and my (S)-Rank sword! Everything is gone!”
He shouted with frustration, Professor Oliver gazed at Kyle and blinked his eyes. He smiled thinking maybe Kyle was joking to light up the mood but then Alec hissed as well.
“My sword is also gone! It was even more precious than yours!”
Alec humped and cursed inwardly. He was already poor but now he was dirt poor just like a beggar.
Kyle shot him a glare.
“What precious? Your old sword was just a piece of long metal. One of the storage rings on my finger was supreme grade!”
“I am gonna kill all those bastards who dare to steal from me!”
Kyle was fuming. It was the first time he suffered such a big loss! He looked at his shirt, the ordinary-looking broach was still there.
‘Why the hell did they leave it? Wasn’t it better to take it as well!’
His eyes darted to the stairs at the end of the prison cells. He touched the white earring present on his ear.
‘It’s seemed because of my cold body they didn’t focus on me that much.’
Professor Oliver was stunned and he wasn’t alone who found Kyle’s words unbelievable. A supreme-grade ring wasn’t something anyone could easily have!
Carcel looked at Kyle and Alec and shook his head with a sigh. The atmosphere that was previously too tense and eerie was now relaxed because they bickered.
Kyle took a deep breath. The chains tied around his wrists clicked as he approached the metal bars. He looked at Alec and Carcel with an unknown expression.
“I am dying for a while. Make a ruckus big enough to alert all those people present at the end of those stairs.”
He whispered slowly with a serious expression. Alec blinked his eyes.
“How?…”
Kyle waved his hand and lay down on the ground.
“It doesn’t matter. Just do as I say. I am the only person who can fake death due to my special condition. If someone died they would probably discard the body because it would root.”
“Shout with everything because I don’t want to stay in this place even for a second. Also, Bia….”
Kyle’s voice turned into a whisper when he said Bia’s name.
‘I can sense she is not far. I need to find her.’
He closed his eyes, his body was already cold coupled with the earring it wasn’t hard for him to act dead.
The others looked at Kyle’s body. They gazed at each other with serious expressions. It was a big gamble. If they got caught no one would be able to survive.
Linzi’s nervous voice rang out as he gazed at Kyle.
“Can’t we wait for the Academy reinforcement? It’s too dangerous.”
Kyle shot open his eyes and looked at Linzi with a cold gaze.
“What if they didn’t appear on time and we all died? Can you take the responsibility?”
Linzi shut his mouth and didn’t dare to make eye contact with Kyle.
“Huuu…”
With a long breath, Kyle gazed at the ceiling and shut his eyes once again.
Alec was the first one who started shouting. He cursed and called the ones who tied them here heartless bastards. Soon, the whole area was in chaos with metal chains bagging here and there while the students cried out their lungs.
Carcel yanked the metal bars with force and kicked the nearby wall.
“You bastards, save him! He is dying! I will kill you all!”
His voice was thunderous as he shouted again and again. Some of the students were even spotting nonsense because after cursing the kidnappers and their entire generations they were out of words.
Among all of them, there was a person who was chanting the last lecture he heard in the classroom.
Jenny looked at Blane with a speechless expression. She shook her head and started chanting a lecture as well.
Meanwhile, outside the underground chamber.
Two tall black-haired men were standing in front of the stairway leading underground. They looked at each other while holding their ears. One of them cursed.
“Can these kids fucking shut up for even a second?”
“Man, they have gone crazy.”
The other replied and then looked at the stairs.
“Should we check them?”
The first man shook his head with a frown.
“No, we aren’t allowed. Wait I will go and inform the Boss.”
He left and after walking for a while he knocked on a door.
A red-haired individual opened the door and stared at him with a yawn.
“What happened?”
“Boss Larry the kids are shouting nonstop. They are saying someone died down there!”
Larry frowned and gestured for the man to follow behind him while calling two more men.
He approached the stairs with the four men following behind him.
After descending, he grabbed his ears with annoyance because the voices were too loud.
“What the fuck is wrong with you all? Want to die!”
Larry shouted with anger and finally, the individuals in the prison cells turned quiet.
Alec grabbed the metal bars and gazed at him with moist eyes.
“Save my friend! Or else I will kill you even if I have to die together with you!”
His voice sounded emotional. Jenny’s acting was even more superb than Alec’s as tears welled up in her eyes.
“Save him, please… I can’t…”
Her voice choked midway as she slumped down on the floor with ragged breathing.
Alec was stunned. He gazed at Carcel and the others with a knowing expression.
‘She over did it!’
On the other hand, Kyle’s eyebrow almost twitched when he heard Jenny’s words. He calmed his troubled heart.
‘I am dead….hu hu…’
Everyone watched as the familiar masked man, Larry walked up to Kyle’s prison cell. He opened the metal bars with a key and stepped inside.
“Who is this kid?”
He spit on the ground and kicked Kyle’s body but when his foot touched Kyle’s stomach his eyes widened slightly.
“So cold! Don’t tell me these kids were telling the truth and he is really dead?”