In the name of the true god

This was a decisive and momentous attempt.

Before the outcome is certain, changing the past and rescuing thirty-nine implicated wizards and resonance sorcerers from prison in one fell swoop is an almost immeasurable challenge.

If successful, Jude couldn't even imagine how much of a commotion he could create by "interfering with the timeline" in the future.

How to change Edmund's fate of being executed?

Planning ahead to overthrow the Holy Church?

Let's get back to the present...

The answers to "How to escape from the heretical prison to the special prison building" and "How to escape from the capital Montorus" have been found. The only remaining difficulty is the middle step: how to escape from the special prison building.

This stage inevitably involves head-on confrontations.

A head-on confrontation will result in casualties, delays, and drag the situation into a worse state.

Therefore, the ideal approach is to completely avoid head-on confrontations.

This way, the divine intervention would result in a complete victory, and the brother Connor and his sister-in-law Steele would not face any mortal danger since they would not encounter a direct confrontation. Overall, it perfectly aligned with their demands.

So... if you can't even win a head-on confrontation, how can you avoid an inevitable battle and safely and quietly take so many people out of the prison?

That depends on Edmund.

"Tell me about the capital's heavy prison, the more detailed the better," Edmund said.

Jude had this in mind, and he even specifically mentioned several important time points: "The Royal Capital Heavy Prison was first built in the 367th year of the Divine Religion Calendar, and then underwent a complete renovation in the 431st year of the Divine Religion Calendar. The renovation mainly consisted of three parts: optimizing the connection between the production labor area and the private enterprise's factory buildings, adding an extra wall, and rationally dividing the chaotic prison area into four..."

After listening carefully, Edmund had already roughly constructed the layout of the capital's heavy prison in his mind: "This prison can indeed be described as impenetrable."

Jude wholeheartedly agreed, but this wasn't the answer he was looking for: "How do you think we can begin?"

“There has already been one prison break, and it’s foreseeable that their security will be even tighter for quite some time to come. It’s absolutely impossible for you to eliminate multiple priests and hundreds of armed guards with overwhelming force and without a scratch,” Edmund said after a moment’s thought. “The only option is to try to avoid them and leave the heresy block unnoticed.”

This line of thinking coincided with Jude's.

Do not hit.

There were no casualties.

The prison was completely unaware, so the so-called "twenty-minute" time limit was no longer in effect.

Of course, this is the ideal solution, which is no different from fantasizing that the Holy Church should directly pardon all "heretics".

If you want to achieve this, there are several key points that cannot be ignored.

First, taking out the two priests on duty in the heretical prison area wouldn't be difficult. But going up from the second basement level of the special prison building, you'll inevitably encounter the armed guards on the first floor. Once you do, a gunfight and alarms are unavoidable.

Secondly, even if the alarm lines of the special prison building are cut off, they can quickly eliminate the armed guards before they can fire their guns, and once they leave the special prison building, they will still be detected by the patrolling prison guards of the prison's "inner ring" wall.

Third, even if they could eliminate the patrolling prison guards on the "inner ring" wall and watchtower beforehand, they would still have to pass through the administration building to leave the "inner ring." The administration building also has the ability to obstruct them and sound the alarm.

Fourth, a miracle occurred: the office staff in the administration building simultaneously went blind and deaf, completely oblivious to the dozens of people swarming around them. Even so, they still kept bumping into the patrolling prison guards on the outer perimeter wall and in the watchtower…

In short, despite the prison's tight security, if they dared to break out, the commotion of an escape would be impossible to conceal.

"I'm thinking..." Edmund offered an alternative solution, "What if we release all thirty-nine implicated wizards and resonance sorcerers from the heresy prison, but instead of sending them upwards?"

"Not going up?" Jude paused, "There's no way down there."

"Let's build one."

"typical?"

"similar."

"That's impossible..." Jude shook his head repeatedly in denial.

How easy is it to dig a tunnel that leads directly to the heretical prison area?

The Royal Capital Heavy Prison isn't stupid. The Heretic Ward is guarded at all times. How could they not notice such a big commotion?

Furthermore.

If the Heretic's Quarters has such a safe escape tunnel, shouldn't the imprisoned wizards and resonance sorcerers have escaped long ago? Why was the tunnel left untouched until now?

Furthermore, spanning twenty-nine years, the success rate of entrusting someone to deliver information was only fifty percent, directly impacting the renovation of the capital's heavy prison, increasing the difficulty by more than ten or a hundred times.

What is the success rate?

Saying one percent is extremely optimistic.

"In 431, the Royal Capital Heavy Prison underwent a complete renovation. This was the best opportunity for us to set up tunnels in advance. As long as we ensured that some of our own people were among the renovation workers and that the tunnels were completed at the same time as the renovation, we should be able to do so without being detected," Edmund said.

I still feel...

"Escape from prison is inherently impossible. Since we are trying to create possibilities from the impossible, many of our methods will naturally not seem feasible."

That makes sense...

It's clearly impossible; trying to come up with a plan that looks hopeful is pure fantasy.

What they need to do right now is try every impossible method and take a chance.

"Let's give it a try then." Jude had no choice but to try anything, even if it seemed hopeless.

"What exactly is the layout of the heresy ward?" Edmund pressed on.

As Jude gestured with his hands, he said, "There are separate cells on all four sides for imprisoning sorcerers and resonance magicians. In the middle is the rest room for the priests on duty, as well as a prayer room specifically for prayer. My brother said that this layout is so that the priests can have a clear view of the cells on all four sides."

Edmund made the decision: "The entrance to the tunnel shall be in the prayer room."

Jude exclaimed in surprise, "Right under the priest's nose?"

"That's the only way," Edmund explained. "The more dangerous the place, the less likely it is to arouse suspicion. Most importantly, only by staying in the prayer room can you have the opportunity to confirm whether the tunnel exists."

"That's true." Jude realized.

If the tunnel really existed, it certainly wouldn't be so easy to discover; otherwise, it's impossible that no "heretics" have escaped until now.

Therefore, if the tunnel were placed in a prison cell, it would be too obvious and would have been exploited long ago. If it were not obvious, the imprisoned wizards and resonance sorcerers would be half-dead and would not have the ability to confirm whether it existed or not.

Go in and see for yourself?

During shift changes, they can only open the partition to deliver food and retrieve sewage bins; they have no way to access the interior.

We can't just poison the priests first and then check if there's a tunnel.

Open the bow without turning back the arrow.

The only time I could glance at the place was during prayer time, which was right next to the priests' lounge. I could easily catch a glimpse of it while playing cards. Plus, with the law of contact on my side, verifying the situation was no problem!