Magellan paced indecisively around his office, looking utterly frazzled.
He had never expected there to be a Devil Fruit Ability user among the enemy capable of easily digging tunnels, one who had burrowed all the way from Level One to Level Six and rescued the major criminal Teach in one go.
Impel Down's supposedly impregnable layers of defenses had become nothing more than decorations before the enemy.
And with such underground-traveling abilities, the enemy possessed tremendous mobility, to the point that Magellan could not even determine where to intercept them.
Finally, a call came from the surveillance room:
"Warden Magellan!"
"The enemy didn't return directly to Level One through the tunnel. They attacked Level Five, Freezing Hell!"
"Th-they're releasing the prisoners on Level Five. The riot has already begun!"
"I understand."
Magellan nodded slightly and immediately made his decision:
"All personnel, move out!"
"You must suppress this riot below Level Five!"
"Yes, sir!"
The guards were all somewhat panicked, but Magellan's powerful image, deeply rooted in their hearts, still allowed them to maintain basic composure.
However, not long after Magellan led the guards out, another call came from the surveillance room:
"W-Warden Magellan!"
"The prisoners from Level Six have all escaped!"
"What?!"
Magellan's vision darkened as he hurriedly asked:
"Didn't you say the Whitebeard Pirates hadn't released the prisoners on Level Six?"
"W-we're not entirely sure either."
The surveillance room guards' voices trembled from nervousness, and the news they reported made it even harder for Magellan to breathe:
"But they've already been freed from their cells, and they're climbing through the tunnel left behind by the Whitebeard Pirates toward Level One!"
"This..."
Magellan's expression was as ugly as if he had swallowed two pounds of day-old arsenic.
The vicious criminals of Level Six had crawled through the tunnel to Level