Prison Overlord Breed
"Breed ..." Hammer Lock recognized the voice immediately. He withdrew from his battle with Gu Ding and looked warily in the direction of the newcomer. What he saw next made him even more worried, because Breed was not alone; there were twelve powerful figures standing behind him.
Breed appeared to be in his early twenties, handsome with a sickly pale complexion and a thin build. He looked like a harmless, somewhat malnourished, and sedentary young man who didn't like going out much. But no one would have guessed that Breed, with such an appearance, was actually the undisputed number one bully at Rioben Prison.
Before his arrest, he was already a 13th-tier powerhouse, a monstrous talent capable of slaying demigods, with a bounty of 70 billion Universe Coin. Wherever he appeared, the entire high command of the Fei Mei Universe's military headquarters would be mobilized. After his arrest, he was sentenced to 5000 years in prison by the Federal Court. 5000 years is the maximum lifespan for a demigod, meaning that even if he later becomes a demigod, he would remain in prison until his death.
The twelve men behind him were all powerful figures in the prison, each a peak thirteenth-tier expert. Even under the suppression of the Magic Restriction Chains, they possessed terrifying Combat Strength far exceeding that of the others. These twelve men were all subdued by Breed through force and became his subordinates. The shortest tenure had been over two hundred years in service to Breed, and their loyalty was beyond question.
"Oh, it's Warden. Long time no see." Breed greeted him cheerfully. He didn't think anyone on this planet could stop him from leaving, so he wasn't in a hurry at all.
Hammer Lock didn't respond to Breed's greeting, but instead looked at Gu Ding not far away. "Do you know what you've done? This prison holds over 88,000 criminals. All of them are at least level 10, with over 6,000 at Twelfth Order and over 200 at level 13. Do you know how much destruction they would cause if all of them escaped?"
Gu Ding was speechless. His original intention was simply to leave this planet, but he had ended up causing such a huge commotion.
"I was wondering why someone escaped before us. Turns out this guy is the one who freed us." Breed's gaze fell on Gu Ding, and he looked him over carefully. "Would you be interested in joining our team? You seem quite talented. We don't lack fighters, but we do need someone like you."
"Sorry, not interested." Gu Ding gave a direct negative answer. Even from this distance, he could smell an extremely dangerous aura emanating from those thirteen people. These people had definitely been steeped in a long period of killing.
"No one can say no to our boss." A Scarface behind Breed took a step forward, but Breed stopped him with a hand.
"Cecil. This is outside the prison; some rules will be rewritten once we escape. This guy gave us our freedom, so we owe him a favor. What did I tell you before?" Breed glanced sideways at Scarface.
"Avenge every wrong, repay every kindness!" Cecil's gaze fell on Gu Ding, and the murderous aura he had been exuding was finally suppressed.
"Young man, you've given us our freedom, so we can grant you one request without expecting anything in return." Breed completely ignored Hammer Lock's presence. "Tell me. What do you want?"
"I don't need anything," Gu Ding refused the other party's help. The moment Breed appeared, Sea Emperor sent information about him and his followers directly into Gu Ding's mind. He knew these people were ruthless and essentially the same kind of people as those from the Dark Magic Domain; Gu Ding had no interest in cooperating with them.
"Don't you want to escape?" Breed could tell from Gu Ding's expression that the other party didn't like him and his group. The other party was probably also Interstellar Pirate, but his ideology seemed to be different from his own.
"I have my own way of escaping." After saying that, Gu Ding looked at Hammer Lock. If Hammer Lock blocked his way, it would indeed be difficult for him to escape.
Breed seemed to have noticed something, and with a swift movement, he appeared between Gu Ding and Hammer Lock. "Brother, you can go now. I still have some scores to settle with our warden."
Gu Ding didn't really want to owe a favor to someone like Breed, but considering he had previously freed these people, he figured this wouldn't count as owing a favor either. He pushed off with his legs and dashed wildly toward the door.
Hammer Lock lashed out with the chain in his hand again, trying to intercept Gu Ding. But Breed suddenly made his move. He seemingly slowly extended his left hand, and the chain that was originally wrapping around Gu Ding was suddenly stopped in its pursuit. Breed then seemingly effortlessly clamped the chain between the index and middle fingers of his left hand.
Gu Ding had already dashed out of the prison gates and was fleeing frantically into the distance, oblivious to the horrifying scene unfolding before him. Gu Ding knew all too well the terror of the Hammer Lock chains; without Sea Emperor's unlocking, he had no chance of breaking free.
This terrifying attack was effortlessly neutralized by just two fingers, but then, something even more astonishing happened. With a slight exertion of his two fingers, Breed caused the chain to shatter into pieces and vanish into thin air.
"Huh?!" Breed also somewhat surprised by this. "This chain isn't a physical object? Nor is it formed from your internal energy. Could it be...?"
Just as Breed was about to guess the answer, a jet-black chain appeared in Hammer Lock's hand, with a fist-sized spherical hammer at the end of the chain.
"It seems my guess was right. Those chains were just a derivative of this demigod artifact. No wonder you were able to hold your own against a demigod for over ten minutes when you were at the Twelfth Order. I thought you were a prodigy, but it seems I really overestimated you." Breed's smile carried a hint of disdain.
"Breed, I know you're One-Star Prodigy capable of fighting across three major tiers, and I admit that in the entire Fei Me Universe Country, prodigies are few and far between. But in the Universe Sea, your talent is only first-rate, not top-tier. At least the prodigy level of that boy just now completely exceeded your imagination." Hammer Lock knew that the other party had always been arrogant about his strength.
"Young man? You mean that guy from earlier? He doesn't look like a young man at all." Breed's interest in Gu Ding grew even stronger. "Could he be the legendary Five-Star Prodigy who can fight across seven major tiers?"
"His appearance was a disguise; he's actually just a fifteen-year-old boy. According to our calculations, if we only consider Combat Strength, he can fight across six major ranks, making him Four-Star Prodigy. But if we take his Taboo Power into account, he's the king of prodigies, Seven-Star Peerless Prodigy!" Hammer Lock's words completely stunned Breed. "Seven-Star Peerless Prodigy possesses terrifying, heaven-defying luck, and is secretly protected by gods. That's why I didn't go all out against him; I knew I couldn't kill him."
Breed swallowed hard, his fingers trembling slightly as certain images from his memory were unleashed by the stimulation.
In the scene, a boy who looks to be sixteen or seventeen years old points a finger at his forehead. In that instant, his body is completely paralyzed, and he clearly feels death approaching.
"He's really weak. I'm only at the eighth level, and he's at the tenth level. He can't even withstand a single ordinary attack from me, and he can't even dodge." In the end, the young man didn't kill him.
"You are a five-star prodigy, while he is just an ordinary One-Star Prodigy. He will only be able to fight you once he is at least four major ranks higher than you." A girl holding an umbrella walked slowly over.
"It's a pity that no seven-star prodigy emperor has appeared in nearly 100,000 years. I really look forward to a clash, even if I lose, it would be an honor." The young man's eyes flashed with a fiery fighting spirit.
Breed slowly closed his eyes, taking several deep breaths to calm himself down. He still clearly remembered the scene when he encountered the Five-Star Prodigy, and it was because of that encounter that he withdrew from the Universe Sea and returned to the Fei Me Universe Country.
"Breed, you've got two more things wrong," Hammer Lock continued.
"First, when I intercepted that demigod, I hadn't yet obtained this demigod artifact. The difference between 13th rank and demigod is comparable to the Combat Strength gap between two major ranks, and at that time I was only a Twelfth-Order Gene Body. Before that battle that spanned three major ranks, I had no idea that there was such a thing as a prodigy. It wasn't until after that battle that my superiors informed me that I was a One-Star Prodigy. It was also after that battle that I received special training from the Federal Government and became the true warden of this prison."
"Secondly, the chain in my hand is not a demigod artifact, but an incomplete divine artifact. But even though it is incomplete, its power is still far beyond that of a demigod artifact."
"Therefore, no one can escape this prison today! Even a true demigod will be suppressed by me!" Hammer Lock's lips curled up slightly, and the black chains rushed out wildly, instantly transforming into a giant sheet that enveloped the thirteen people at the same time.
Outside the prison, Gu Ding had already escaped quite a distance, Hammer Lock hadn't caught up, indicating that he must have been stopped by Breed. Looking around, Gu Ding spotted a bathroom and quickly dashed inside.
After entering the cubicle and locking the door, Gu Ding tore off the human skin mask and put on another face that looked like a student's. Then he changed his wig, clothes, socks, and shoes, and even put in color-changing eye drops to dye the irises of his eyes blue.
After leaving the stall and checking himself in the mirror, finding nothing amiss, Gu Ding walked out of the restroom and headed towards the port.