The magic cards I made are absolutely flawless!

"Quiet."

Upon hearing Dekan's command, Elaine found herself speechless.

It's like having your throat stuck.

Dekan withdrew the silencing spell and then looked at the remaining paralysis potion.

I gave Elaine a boost of her dosage.

It made it impossible for her to even speak or blink.

She is now merely a doll with a conscious mind.

"Alright, just listen to me obediently from now on."

After speaking in a low voice, Dekan stood up and ignored Elaine.

Dekan wouldn't waste time dealing with ordinary, low-quality thugs; he'd just take them down.

If time allows, Dekan would likely give a good military training session to any good villain before taking them down.

The best villains, such as the Destroyer Bishop Evans or the Corrupt Bishop Fahim, not only kill but also destroy their spirits. After torturing them, they are made to die by the very methods they once loved to use on the innocent.

As for Elaine, it's difficult for Dekan to define which level she belongs to.

She was far less guilty than Evans or Fahim.

It doesn't reach an excellent level.

However, her obsession with manipulating people's hearts was something Dekan had never encountered before.

Therefore, Dekan believed that she could definitely bring him some new fun.

"Cornelia, if she had ambushed you just now, could you have dodged it?"

As Dekan walked, he suddenly asked.

Regardless, this is the question that has been on his mind the most since just now.

"Yes, I don't completely trust her. I'm always on the verge of a fight."

Cornelia turned around and looked at Dekan seriously as she answered.

It was clearly mentioned in the manual that Dekan wrote for her.

After getting separated from Dekan, don't trust anyone, no matter how innocent they seem.

"Phew, but I'll find you as soon as possible."

Dekan breathed a sigh of relief and nodded in satisfaction.

"Hmm. By the way, where's Teacher Cat?"

"Cornelia meow!"

The cat teacher popped out from Dekan's collar, and Cornelia waved her paw.

"Well……"

Cornelia looked at the cat teacher with a pitiful expression.

Because she had been staring at the cat teacher for so long, the cat teacher showed no intention of jumping on her.

"Meow, Cornelia, it's too cold outside, meow. I'll come here after I get past this floor!"

After saying that, Teacher Cat crawled back into Dekan's cotton-padded coat.

For a moment, Dekan had the urge to grab it and throw it over to Cornelia.

But I'm still too lazy to bother with it.

The main reason it's clinging to me so much right now must be that I generously threw out a huge sum of 50 demon points on the third floor to rescue it.

When it finally realizes its true worth, there will be quite a show to watch.

"Okay, let's quickly do some makeup next."

Dekan took out a palette of paints and quickly turned the three unharmed individuals into battle-damaged ones.

Although he couldn't master Mir's disguise skills, having consulted Mir and being skilled in drawing, he could still manage to make the three of them look like they had just gone through a fierce battle.

They then found the bodies of the two reconnaissance team scouts.

However, Dekan and Morion each carried one of the two corpses back to the camp.

And so they got closer and closer to the camp.

While we were still some distance from the camp.

At Dekan's instruction, Morion stacked the corpse he was holding onto Dekan's hands, and then Cornelia delivered several more stabs to Elaine.

Dekan looked at Elaine on the ground and said:

"Alright, Morion, go and pick up Elaine. Be as careful as if you were carrying a hero."

"what?"

Morion frowned, as if he was very resistant.

“Cornelia, drag the Faceless Igna along. My hands are full. This princely job is yours.”

Dekan nudged Morion with his elbow and said.

"Tsk, prince? More like a gigolo. Don't think I don't know, you even planned to have me seduce Countess Lislina last time."

Morion clicked his tongue, reluctantly untied the ropes binding Elaine's feet, and then picked her up.

Elaine was terrified.

Although she had never seen this young man with pear-wood hair make a move.

But she felt that even if she were in this state of being unable to move, she wouldn't have enough lives to survive in this guy's hands.

Holding him, I felt no sense of security whatsoever.

There was only an inexplicable fear.

She tried desperately to struggle, but her body was numb and she couldn't move.

"Alright, alright, how could we let you become a gigolo... Watch your expressions, from now on we need to make our expressions more serious, like we're going to school or work."

Under Dekan's guidance, Morion and Cornelia quickly understood how they should return to camp.

Then.

The group finally returned to the camp.

First, it alerted the temporary guard team stationed outside the camp.

The scene that startled everyone in the camp was a shock to them.

……

"What... what is this?"

"What happened to Elaine?!"

The people in the camp could not believe it.

This nightmarish prison warden has now turned into a corpse!

Moreover, Elaine looked like she was on her deathbed.

She still had a sliver of tenacious vitality left.

But even the strongest mage in the camp, Ryan, had examined her.

Her injuries were beyond the healing magic to save her.

Perhaps only an eighth-rank priest could save her life.

However, it is impossible to find an eighth-rank priest in this prison.

She's beyond saving.

Instead, the gray-haired girl and the pear-wood-colored young man that Cornelia brought back were no longer the focus of everyone's attention.

Everyone wore expressions of sorrow and despair, and there was a deathly silence.

It all happened so suddenly; they were like a group of helpless children who had been hit so hard they couldn't accept reality.

We can only watch as time slowly slips away.

Every second that passed in the camp felt like an invisible blade, tearing at their will and devouring them, leaving only endless darkness.

They felt no joy at the warden's death.

She simply stood beside Elaine, tears welling in her eyes.

"Cornelia, what's going on..."

Finally, the mage Ryan shifted his gaze from Elaine and looked at Cornelia, asking her a question.

He looked ten years older in an instant.

"When we got to the bodies, we found two new companions. They had just arrived on this floor and encountered the warden, but they weren't as lucky as me; no investigation team pointed out the warden's characteristics to them..."

Cornelia lowered her head and murmured.

This is the acting method that Dekan taught her. She's not very good at acting out expressions; she just keeps her head down and that's it.

"and then?"

Despite his despair, the mage Ryan couldn't hide his eagerness as he asked.

If it were any other time...

Even when new prisoners are brought in, they encounter the warden.

There will definitely be investigators nearby who will point out the warden's characteristics to them.

But it just so happens to be today.

Two members of the investigation team were poisoned.

"Then, in order to save them, Elaine started leading me in a direct attack on the warden..."

Cornelia continued her story.