After the decision was made to release all the "purifiers."
Conan first had Shut and the others continue using tunnels to rescue several of his companions.
These companions were people he had met during training. After half a year together, they had become quite close. They were also all exceptionally gifted Self Connectors. Once Conan rescued them and brought them to the Orunian Empire, they would surely be willing to join Azure Light and serve Your Majesty.
After rescuing his companions, they went to save the ordinary "purifiers."
Most of these ordinary purifiers were Azure Hand guild members who had made mistakes and been punished by being turned into purifiers.
However, it was also possible that quite a number of them were innocent people who had been persecuted and framed. After all, the Azure Hand guild had existed for tens of millions of years. Its internal hierarchy had long since solidified, and it was all too common for the powerful class to oppress ordinary people at the bottom.
Even Shut himself had personally witnessed it several times: the beautiful wives of certain guild members were forcibly taken by the children of high-ranking figures, their resources were plundered, or they were bullied and insulted simply because someone disliked them. If you resisted even a little, they would condemn you to a place of no return.
Thus, among the tens of thousands of ordinary "purifiers" in this Back Mountain Forbidden Area, a considerable number had reached this point only because of persecution by the powerful.
After entering a certain cave through a tunnel and seeing a purifier chained to the wall inside, Shut was startled.
"Kelunweina, how did you end up here?"
Kelunweina was Shut's old friend. They had carried out several missions together and worked very well together. But more than