Void Realm, Sea of Knowledge.
"An entire day, and you couldn't find a single companion willing to Prison Break with you?"
Sonia chopped down hard, and the Sword Qi Ripple split into several constantly revolving rings of force, tearing nonstop into the Earth Fortress before her like electric saws. It was the new Miracle she had learned, "Wave Cleaving Slash."
"Yeah."
Ash sighed, shaped his hand into sword fingers, and guided Heart Sword to pierce through the Earth Fortress. But whenever the Earth Fortress was pierced through one layer, another grew out, as if it were endless.
"Not even one?"
"It's not that there wasn't anyone at all, but aside from Igula, whom I bound with the Contract, everyone else refused... or rather, they didn't believe it."
"If Broken Lake Prison has never had a Prison Break before, then they do have reason not to believe you."
"It's not just that," Ash sighed. "Rather than saying they don't believe it for objective reasons, it's more like they subjectively refuse to believe it on an emotional level."
For the entire day, Ash had followed Igula around trying to persuade other powerful prisoners, such as "Diamond" Tiger, "Black Beast" Tuke, and "Lark" Jewell. Before each of them was imprisoned, they had been vicious Sorcerers, and each of their criminal histories could have been written into a thriller novel.
But all of them refused to join the Prison Break operation.
To be honest, Ash wasn't surprised by this. With Broken Lake Prison's high-pressure rule and its almost absolutely sealed-off island environment, it would be strange if the Death Row Inmates immediately believed they could break out. Suspicion was reasonable.
The problem was, the attitude the Death Row Inmates showed wasn't suspicion, but resistance.
They resisted Prison Break.
One had to know that the