After Norton and the thief Kijad had more or less finished discussing the matter of joining the Wizard Civilization's camp, Saine's visitation time with Lina also came to an end, and he was forced to make his way to the central hall of Atlanta Interstellar Prison.
According to prison rules, Saine could visit Lina again in three months, though the allotted time would still be only one hundred hourglasses.
A three-month interval... that was not even enough time for Saine to make a round trip to the Wizard World.
So he simply did not leave Atlanta Interstellar Prison and instead settled down nearby.
There were visitors like Saine every year.
There were also quite a few offending knights and magicians in the Wizard World who, unwilling to become Black Knights or Black Magicians, voluntarily came to Atlanta Interstellar Prison and requested imprisonment.
It was wartime now, so Wizard Civilization was not overly harsh toward this group of powerful beings.
Usually, they would be imprisoned for a period before being released. Afterward, they would have to fight bravely on the front lines of the Civilization Battlefield and use military merit to wipe away their crimes.
For example, during the time Saine had been visiting Lina, he had met a demigod-level female magician named Gina.
She had come to wait for her Brother's release from prison.
Gina's Brother was a Level-4 Knight. Because of unfair distribution of Spoils of War and other issues on the front lines of the Civilization Battlefield, he had clashed with another Level-4 Knight and injured him.
Based on the injured party's condition, as well as the fact that the other party later gave Gina's Brother written forgiveness, Wizard Civilization reduced his prison sentence from the original two hundred years to fifty years.
Gina had spent the past