The Rise of the Black Plain
chapter-2747

"Don't be surprised, senior, the Traitor is still alive," said Jailer Deryk in a serious tone.

When the man mentioned the term Traitor, Minos immediately understood that this referred to one person in particular, a member of Uzira's sovereign family, who had tried to usurp the leadership of the continent from her older brother.

There was a deep story behind that necromancer, things that even Minos didn't know. He knew, however, that Uzira's central force had no problem punishing its own family members, including a peak Supreme.

Even restricted by the Cursed Rock's special formations, the Traitor still made her aura reach the entire prison wing where Minos and Deryk were now.

"Impressive." That word escaped Minos' lips, while the Jailer in front of him was not surprised.

"Indeed, it is. Is this your first time feeling it, senior?"

"Yes, I hadn't had the chance to come face to face with her before. She's from the generation before mine and I haven't come this far in Cursed Rock," Minos said as he walked behind Deryk through the jagged corridors of the large prison.

The area they were in no longer looked like an advanced facility, but a large system of tunnels built into a colossal cavern.

As he walked through the area, Minos could see more or less how the Guards and Jailers kept the prisoners. Many of those he saw were injured, probably having been tortured. They had black bags over their heads and some kind of special liquid was dripping down them. Meanwhile, they were kept bound by chains to the walls.

Minos used this visual information on his way to prepare himself for how he would find his woman.

"Lucky you. They say the Traitor was a terrible person to deal with in the high court. I heard rumors that she always got those she had relations with into trouble. Most of them didn't end well, I've heard."

Minos just agreed with what he heard, not getting too invested in the subject. But he was curious about the situation of this woman who had tried to usurp leadership in Uzira.

'If the situation gets complicated, I could involve this person in the rebellion. She would definitely be enough trouble for the forces in this place to have people other than my group as their priority.'

After descending several flights of stairs, walking for almost 30 minutes through corridors and seeing countless prisoners, Minos arrived at the place where he felt he would find his wife.

Jailer Deryk stopped next to a cell in one corner of the area, near a flight of stairs. There he showed with one of his hands into the cell. "This is Abby Miller. She's a necromancer, as you may already know. She has some kind of special power that prevents her from feeling pain, so torture has little potential with her. But try what you will. You have 20 minutes before we have to leave."

Minos looked through the cell and the black bag around Abby's head, seeing how pale she was. Abby had several wounds all over her body and her dark circles under her eyes showed how stressed she was.

Seeing her in such a state was one of the worst challenges for Minos, surpassing even some of the most difficult rooms in the last phase of the True Celestial inheritance.

But Minos knew fully that his lack of control would cause the death of everyone there, not just him. He did his best to control himself, while taking the opportunity at hand to enter Abby's cell and stand face to face with his wife.

As he approached her, he felt no reaction from Abby. She was definitely prepared to endure yet another torture.

He approached her until he was touching her neck hard and asked. "Tell me about Minos, woman! If you give me a hint about him, I'll give you some news about your beloved husband!" he said as tiny silver sparks entered Abby's body.

Abby stopped suppressing her senses as she noticed this burning flame that did not harm her body, readily identifying the same essence that Minos had given her 26 years ago.

Just over 26 years had passed since Minos' advancement to the 12th stage, when he went to the True Celestial inheritance and her group had been sent out of the level 124 soul fragment dimension.

'Abby, it's me. I'm back.' Minos said into her mind, taking advantage of the few gaps he had, while pretending to be hurting her in the midst of his questions.

'Minos! Are you finally back? Is it really you?' Abby almost couldn't believe it, but his flames were unmistakable.

She felt the dormant flame in her body strengthen subtly, just enough for her to notice who he was, but not to the point where it became sensitive to others.

'Join my game while I try to extract information about you. I'm infiltrating this prison while posing as a necromancer who is a member of the sovereign family of Uzira. I'll soon have to leave, but there will be an opportunity to escape before long.'

Abby and Minos engaged in a heated exchange of words, with her proving difficult to take information from, but a little miffed that Barnet had mentioned her beloved husband's name.

Meanwhile, she didn't try to stop him from rescuing her and her sisters from the harem. Abby focused on telling him how they had ended up there and her biggest worries.

'Don't worry about those issues for now. Just be aware that we're going to run away in a few days. Do you think everyone will last until then?'

'Yes. This place is hell, but it has one big weakness. They rarely kill their inmates. The chief aim of this place is to make the inmates suffer and be examples to the community of Uzira.' Abby had seen this clearly in her years there.

'A few more days of waiting won't change anything... But how do you intend to get us out of here? Those damn Jailers boast amid the torture of how strong their forces are. They even have peak Supremes!'

'There's a horde of undead approaching here...' Minos said to Abby's surprise, almost making her lose her composure at that moment.

'By the way, I was wondering if you had anything to do with this group. Did you somehow lure them here?'

'Me? No. I didn't even know there was a horde of undead on this continent.'