The royal palace, underground.
In this place housing the Magic Library and various other important facilities, there was a prison.
This was where the kingdom specifically held important criminals.
Only the most heinous criminals, those who could basically never be allowed to walk free or even survive, could be imprisoned here, making it one of the most important facilities beneath the royal palace.
Naturally, the place was managed year-round by trusted royal personnel. Though there were no guards, dozens of high-grade magical barriers and spells had been deployed here, turning it into a sturdy cage that no one could invade and no one could escape from.
Naturally, very few people came here in ordinary times. Sometimes, no one might visit even once in several years.
Today, however, Shien arrived here under Roxie's guidance.
"The Old Demon Race members are being held here."
Roxie pointed at the prison grounds ahead, which were shrouded in layers upon layers of barriers. Her tone seemed to have returned to normal.
Clearly, after Shien's dimensionality-reducing strike, Roxie had accepted her fate and faced reality again, no longer intending to oppose him at every turn.
Naturally, Shien would no longer make things difficult for this pitiful slacking Princess.
He had already gotten plenty of benefits from her. Since that was the case, he should forgive her when it was time to forgive her.
"So this is the place?"
Shien looked at the barriers before him. Rather than asking Roxie to open them, he directly used Teleportation, passing through the layers of barriers and entering the interior.
A second later, Roxie barged in from outside as well.
"Are you crazy?" Looking as if she had nearly been scared to death, Roxie complained to Shien irritably. "This place doesn't just have barriers. There are also Magic Traps specifically