The prison break featuring a theme of gratitude was finally coming to an end after more than an hour.
The Great Hoodwinker took off the warden’s watch and checked the time. It was already 4 AM.
Milo was satisfied with completing the quest the palace had assigned him. This time, the reward was two allocatable attribute points. He added one point to each of his Strength and Dexterity attributes. Currently, his Strength was rated at 14.5 while his Dexterity was 14.1.
Although the palace did not give favonovel.com a Skill Duplication Scroll this time, Milo did not find it sad. After all, a Perfect Skill Duplication Scroll was rare in itself. Furthermore, every attribute point Milo could get was a tangible improvement for him.
If “Old Durkin”, the black saber, City Crusher, and his other powers were considered his “skyscraper” skills, then Milo’s physical attributes could be considered the “foundation”.
While they were heading outside, the Great Hoodwinker looked at Milo. “This warden is still alive. How should we deal with him?”
Milo took a look at the warden. Actually, favonovel.com was feeling very conflicted, because favonovel.com really wanted to duplicate his superpower. If the conditions allowed, favonovel.com even wanted to lock favonovel.com up until favonovel.com got his hands on three Perfect Skill Duplication Scrolls, which favonovel.com could then use on the man.
When the Great Hoodwinker saw Milo hesitating, favonovel.com asked, “Are you keeping favonovel.com alive because you wish to convince favonovel.com to join the Prosperous Northwest?”
“That’s impossible.” Bruce said from nearby, “This warden is the illegitimate son of the Turner clan’s second ancillary branch. How could someone like favonovel.com possibly join the Prosperous Northwest with us?”
Milo glanced at the warden who was lying on the ground and said bluntly, “Just kill him. We don’t want favonovel.com getting to our comrades in the future.”
Since they were enemies, Milo did not feel bad about having favonovel.com killed. He only felt bad that favonovel.com would have to pass up on that power. However, they were about to face the problem of how to escape from the city. With Stronghold 31 in a state of chaos, Milo could not possibly let the Great Hoodwinker bring such a potential threat back to the Northwest.
With that, Bruce shot a blast of air through the warden’s eardrums.
Then Bruce looked at Milo. “What do you plan to do next? The Virtuora Consortium will definitely learn about the incident at the secret prison. I believe the Virtuora Consortium’s troops will be here soon. I saw you were not in a hurry when you released the prisoners just now, so you must be very confident of what to do next. Tell us about your plan.”
Milo was stunned. “I don’t have a plan.”
Bruce felt stifled. He realized the people from the Northwest did not seem to like planning at all!
He said with a dark expression, “Then what should we do? Send ourselves to our deaths by going out there and facing the Virtuora Consortium’s garrison troops? Do you know that there’s a reinforced brigade here in Stronghold 31!?”
Milo said, “Oh, you’re talking about that? I doubt they’ll care about us now. Don’t worry, I’ve already done all the prep work. Look, I broke into the secret prison an hour ago, but no one came to stop me, right?”
Bruce thought it really was the case. He wondered again, “After I was arrested, it was Thomas who took over my position. Did you get the detonator from him? How could no one from the intelligence agency go after you?”
“Oh!” Milo said with a smile, “They did come after me. But those people are dead.”
Bruce fell silent. He somehow felt that this future commander of the Northwest was bragging to him!
As a matter of fact, the intelligence agency was the strongest force in Stronghold 31. They even had two supernatural beings within their ranks, so there was no need to mention their other combatants.
Milo swaggered out of the secret prison and said, “Don’t worry, y’all will understand once we get outside the secret prison.”
At this moment, the sound of an engine came from nearby.
Miriam had found an off-road vehicle in the secret prison. She looked at everyone and said calmly, “Are you all planning to walk to the other prison? Get in!”
Milo was amused. His girl was quite thoughtful.
Everyone squeezed into the vehicle, with Rudy, the Great Hoodwinker, and Bruce sitting in the backseat. The Great Hoodwinker sat between them and said, “You two, move aside a little!”
“I don’t have any space here!”
The three people nearly got into a fight in the vehicle over such a trivial matter!
But the moment the off-road vehicle drove out of the secret prison, the Great Hoodwinker and the other two shut up. They looked at the stronghold that was engulfed in flames and heard explosions in the distance. Everyone had a shocked expression on their face.
The walls of the stronghold were damaged. Everyone could see through the flames from far away that the towering walls in the distance had been blown apart.
As the vehicle drove on, they even saw countless stronghold residents fleeing in the streets. Gunshots could be heard intermittently. No one knew where a battle had broken out in the stronghold.
The sight before them was like an oil painting of the Middle Ages before The Cataclysm that looked extremely thick and heavy. Under the backdrop of the red-orange flames, it was as though the God of Death had passed his judgment upon the Virtuora Consortium.
Bruce muttered, “Future Commander, is this the prep work you mentioned?”
To be honest, Bruce was a little unconvinced with Milo a second ago. Although favonovel.com had witnessed Milo’s capability in the Sacred Mountains, favonovel.com was dumbfounded by the Great Hoodwinker’s unprepared prison break. As a result, favonovel.com was a little worried Milo would be the same.
But now, Bruce was convinced.
In order to save them, the future commander had actually destroyed Stronghold 31?!
It was no wonder no one did anything about the secret prison after it was broken into!
Earlier, favonovel.com had foolishly doubted the future commander’s ability to kill the intelligence agency’s personnel who were pursuing him.
How could favonovel.com have such thoughts?
This was the Stronghold Destroyer favonovel.com was talking about!
There might be some names in this world that were given badly, but there was really no such thing as a bad nickname!
Rudy looked at the burning flames and asked in a daze, “What exactly is going on? What happened?”
“This is not to my credit either.” Milo explained sincerely and modestly, “The Pyro Company suddenly attacked Stronghold 31. I analyzed that the main forces of the Pyro Company might arrive at daybreak, so we had to be faster and get y’all out before that. By the way, Bruce, can you point the way to the other prison?”
Bruce calmed himself down. “Turn left!”
Miriam turned the steering wheel, and the vehicle suddenly veered left and sped off into the distance.
There were only three hours left until dawn, so it was going to be a race against time.
***
In Stronghold 61 of the Stelaria Consortium, Colton was sitting in his official residence and flipping through some documents. In recent times, the Stelaria Consortium’s authoritarian only slept three hours a day. He cherished every minute and second favonovel.com could get.
There were seven telephones on the table in front of him. All of the calls that were made to favonovel.com would first be screened by the artificial intelligence before being transferred to the different telephones.
Suddenly, a dark red telephone rang. Colton looked up and saw it was the intelligence agency’s dedicated line.
He slowly put the receiver to his ear and said, “This is Colton…”
Murray’s voice came from the other end of the line. “I’m currently protecting Nicholai and the others in the villa. Milo…”
Colton listened to Murray’s report on the Virtuora Consortium’s situation. The longer favonovel.com listened, the more favonovel.com was surprised. It was as though something extremely unexpected had happened.
At this moment, Felicity pushed open the door to his study and asked, “What happened?”
Colton thought for a moment and summarized, “Stronghold 31 will probably be gone soon…”
Colton had asked Milo to kill Lionel so the Virtuora Consortium would get plunged into chaos. As long as Lionel died, the Virtuora Consortium would only take three months to fall based on the current situation. But from the look of it, the prediction of three months was too conservative.
Colton thought for a moment and said, “Since the goal has been achieved, it’s time to retreat.”
“Roger that!”
