Screech! Bang!
The agonizing sound of iron-barred door hinges warping, bending, and shattering under extreme pressure continued to echo endlessly, followed by the loud crashes of thick iron plates falling onto the underground prison floor.
Shhhk!
A sharp hissing sound cleaved the air. Microscopic sands, possessing incredibly heavy mass due to high-level gravity magic manipulation, continued to shoot at bullet speed toward the ranks of the Victoriaz Kingdom soldiers.
"Aaahhh.....!!!"
The soldiers' screams of agony sounded piercingly loud and harrowing as the high-pressure sand grains pierced their armored uniforms, tearing through flesh, and shattering their bones like a deadly hail of bullets.
Kaydan kept running down the prison corridor without slowing his pace even slightly. The gray-haired youth ferociously used a deadly combination of his sand magic and gravity magic to attack every soldier blocking his path, simultaneously destroying all the prison cell doors he passed on the left and right sides of the corridor.
"If you still want to live, get out of this place right now!" Kaydan exclaimed in a loud voice that echoed throughout the block, directed at all the captives still cowering inside their cells. "If you still have any strength left and can fight, rise up and fight with me!"
Disregarding their backgrounds, level of crimes, or who the people he had freed from behind the iron bars actually were, Kaydan remained resolute in carrying out his husband's absolute command to destroy all the prison doors he passed in order to create massive chaos.
All the captives who heard the youth's call for liberation seemed to receive an injection of new life. They flocked to push their way out of the prisons whose doors had been destroyed.
With long-pent-up anger from being tortured in that filthy place, they immediately joined in and began fighting with bare hands or makeshift weapons taken from fallen soldiers, standing by Kaydan's side for one common goal: freedom.
With dozens of prisoners joining Kaydan's side, the formation of soldiers trying to hold back the rampage in the corridor began to be pushed back significantly.
"Damn it!" cursed one of the soldiers with a pale face holding back panic, deflecting a rock thrown by a prisoner. "Their numbers are increasing!"
"Fall back! Pull back the line!" shouted another soldier acting as commander. "We must immediately report everything happening down here to—"
Thud!
The soldier collapsed onto the floor before he could finish his sentence.
His body had been brutally pierced by a barrage of dense sand that Kaydan launched at him from a distance.
The soldier's body was now full of gaping small holes as hundreds of incredibly heavy sand grains had struck and penetrated his body in a fraction of a second.
That horrifying sight successfully shattered the remaining morale of the existing troops. Total panic began to engulf the guard soldiers. Their combat morale was completely crushed, leaving nothing behind. The arrogance they usually displayed when torturing bound prisoners was now gone, entirely replaced by the basic instinct to survive.
The remaining soldiers began to turn around and run back, away from the crowd of rampaging prisoners. However, the captives had no intention of letting them escape just like that.
Boom!
A massive explosion of fire magic, blinding the eyes and deafening the ears, suddenly erupted from the front lines of the prisoners.
Inside that long underground prison corridor, which was only about three meters wide, the destructive force and heatwave of the explosion echoed and multiplied due to being trapped in the narrow space.
Thick smoke billowed densely. Two soldiers lay sprawled on the floor with their bodies scorched black, groaning as they lay dying. However, amidst the chaos, moans, and billowing smoke, several soldiers at the very back of the line had managed to escape toward the access stairs leading up.
Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the prison block in that underground corridor, the unfortunate youth who had just been rescued kept stepping forward, penetrating deeper.
Right behind him, Arvin, still in his invisible form, continued to calmly follow the youth.
From the front, which was still shrouded in dark shadows, the echoing sounds of many armed soldiers' running footsteps could suddenly be heard hurrying toward the two of them.
Arvin remained completely silent, carefully observing how the youth in front of him would react to facing all the approaching enemies, while staying on high alert to protect him.
What are you going to do with the number of soldiers coming here? Arvin wondered curiously, anticipating the show before him.
Slowly, from behind the dim light of the wall torches, the silhouettes of several uniformed soldiers became clearly visible.
"You!" exclaimed one of the soldiers in the front row with his eyes wide open, recognizing the face of the youth in front of him.
It was the depraved soldier who had earlier just tortured and raped the youth in the cell. "How did you get free from those shackles?!"
The youth was completely unwilling to open his mouth to answer the soldier's shocked exclamation. Instead of speaking, the youth stared ahead and slowly began to raise his right hand.
Instantly, dozens of soldiers lost their footing on the world's gravity. They all floated in the air, their bodies held helplessly as if pulled by an invisible force from all directions.
Arvin, still using his invisible magic, immediately smirked in satisfaction. He nodded in understanding as soon as he saw the power possessed by the youth he had just saved.
So that's how it is... Arvin thought, feeling greatly relieved as well as amazed by the extraordinary potential of the power he had just seen. The combination of his pure telekinesis magic and Kaydan's gravity magic will be a highly deadly combination. Their abilities are very compatible and will complement each other perfectly if the two of them work together.
In front of Arvin, the youth sharpened his gaze, then moved his outstretched hand to the right with a very swift and hard swing.
Whoosh! Bang!
The bodies of all the soldiers floating helplessly in the air instantly shot quickly to the right, until finally, their bodies crashed against the prison wall very hard, producing the sound of crushing bones.
However, the youth did not stop there. He stretched his hand straight ahead again. Under the influence of his telekinesis magic, all the iron swords belonging to the soldiers that had previously fallen and lay on the floor now vibrated and began to lift, floating into the air with their sharp points aiming straight at the targets.
And with a single jerking motion of his hand downward, the swords floating in the air instantly shot sharply downward.
Zeb! Zeb! Zeb!
The swords pierced the heads of all the soldiers. They died instantly.