Chapter 52

Chapter 52

I Became a Prisoner Trainer in the Dungeon.

Episode 52: Trade With The Barony (1)

The battle with the humans was not my part.

Just as Akamondu, the chief steward, captured the Gentia party, I only interrogated and trained those captured by him and the Vampire Corps soldiers.

However, there was a problem with the current policy.

‘The more prisoners are killed, the more psychological burden Eris continues to feel.’

Eris had been a virgin, but she was not just an innocent fool.

While she was happy that she survived, she was also saddened by the deaths of those who died here.

Eris also knew.

That once captured by the demons, there was no way but death.

Rather, it was stranger that she survived.

However, just as the prisoners tried to test us again when we loosened up a little, Eris could not help but think differently as she lived.

The fact that she survived.

The guilt that only she survived.

Dalia and Gentia survived by becoming vampires, but all the other prisoners were killed, and she survived as a human, so she felt indebted.

That guilt did not come from committing a crime against anyone.

That guilt was also a symbol that Eris was a kind-hearted (former) virgin, and it was also the reason why I wanted to somehow corrupt Eris into a vampire and keep her as my exclusive pussy.

Sometimes, just surviving was a crime.

The information given to Eris was limited, but depending on how I released the information, Eris’s guilt would deepen further.

‘The adventurers are coming here to save Eris.’

Why did adventurers come into the Vampire Corps’ new seedling dungeon?

Even though they knew that Eris’s group had already disappeared there, why did they step into the land of death beyond a portal?

In the first place, why was the Gentia group captured?

Before the Gentia group came in, why were a group of adventurers all massacred by Chief Steward Akamondu?

‘They came in to save Eris and were captured.’

It was all because we leaked information.

We hadn’t been able to send Eris’s letter to the Alvatea County yet, but we have leaked information to the Gilberte Barony that ‘she might be alive’ through her belongings.

‘If Gilberte’s bastard is alive, Eris Alvatea may also be alive.’

Well, it was a kind of prank.

‘They’re all dead and only Eris survived, but the Alvatea County will want at least Eris to be alive.’

The Gilberte Barony could also put the Alvatea County in debt, and confirm the death of the bastard to make the inheritance issue more certain.

‘Baron Gilberte judged it to be a profitable business.’

Putting Count Alvatea in debt.

Eliminating another heir, the bastard.

Baron Gilberte continued to send adventurers to get that truth.

Even if the adventurers died and he had to pay compensation.

‘Chief Steward Akamondu is still leaking information.’

Limited, but information was leaking out.

-Hehehe, I’ll spare only one of you two.

After killing 8 out of 10 adventurers, leaving 2 alive, he sat cross-legged on the corpses, as if enjoying a bad hobby.

-Amazing. Amazing. You have an amazing desire to live, just like that Gilberte? Gilberk? that bastard. Just like you want to survive in prison by killing all your other colleagues!

-……!!

-Go. The fun is over. Today, I’m going to test how long he can endure by pulling out that arrogant guy’s fingernails. Hehehe….

In the form of, the prisoners were now running away with some information.

-We’re continuing to act like this. Is this helpful? Trainer?

-Is it acting?

-……Hehehe!

All the adventurers who come to our side were captured and killed or taken as prisoners, but before taking them as prisoners, we made some adventurers escape to leak information.

‘There is a way to tell them more directly that she is alive.’

I had thought about that too.

-Ugh, how did I become a prisoner…. Ah, you!!

-Shh. Be quiet.

-How did this happen…!

-I had no choice to survive. Besides, you, do as I tell you. Then they will lose interest in you, and they will use you as a ‘messenger’ to save you.

-Me, a messenger…?

-Or you’ll die.

-Yes, yes!

In the way to make Gilberte act.

-I did as you said, Trainer.

-Good. I’ll spare you today.

-Thank you!

If Gilberte’s bastard was alive, if he was captured as a prisoner and contacted in prison, and then released the prisoner with the information that ‘Gilberte’s bastard is alive!’?

He will immediately deliver the fact to the Gilberte Barony.

And in the process, the fact that he saw Eris being dragged somewhere as a prisoner will be conveyed to Count Alvatea.

To do that-

‘There is no justification to release the prisoner.’

We could not release the prisoner.

‘This is a problem I cannot do anything about. The Demon King’s army’s compensation standard for prisoner release is based on the Demon King’s army.’

Prisoners were sometimes released after paying compensation.

However, the amount of compensation was so high that only a very small number were released.

To talk about it in terms of modern people’s sense of money, about 5 billion won?

Of course, that amount was an amount that people with median income among modern people could not reach even if they earn a lifetime.

In the first place, as a salaried worker, I barely managed to save a few hundred million won, let alone 5 billion won, by desperately saving money for several years.

But 5 billion won?

‘It’s just telling you to die. Or it’s telling you to borrow money from people around you and bring that money to save you.’

If you could not pay about 5 billion won in release money, it was your fate to just die quietly.

‘Even that is based on commoners, and nobles are more than ten times that.’

Eris’s release money would be about 100 billion won.

Wasn’t that just saying that the release money was just a formality!

Was it a showy administration to show that the Demon King’s army was acting humanely towards humans?

-If you ask, yes, it is.

The release fee was essentially just a pretext to destroy the target that paid the release fee through one person.

If the Alvatea County paid a release fee of 100 billion won, Eris could be saved, but the entire county would be greatly shaken.

Even worse, they will be pointed fingers at for trading with demons.

So, in reality, even though there was a release fee, there were almost no cases where release actually occurred.

However.

No matter how high the release fee was.

Even if the bail that was paid to be released was as expensive as real jewels and gold.

First of all, it was possible to attempt ‘negotiations’ with humans under such a pretext.

‘We must use the Gilberte Barony to bring out Count Alvatea.’

To some extent, the fruit had ripened.

The rest was just a matter of devising and implementing a plan.

“Secretary.”

“Yes, Trainer.”

“There is one thing I want to ask.”

“Please speak.”

So, I decided to move more actively to secure new corruptors.

“Can we take over the Gilberte Barony?”

“……Excuse me?”

“……No, the analogy was inappropriate.”

I quickly changed my words to the flustered Lilith.

“I’m wondering if we can dominate the Gilberte Barony with military force.”

“No.”

Chief Steward Akamondu stated firmly.

“If the demons of the Demon King’s army could freely exert their power in human territory, humanity would have already fallen into the hands of the Demon King’s army.”

If you asked why Chief Steward Akamondu was answering me directly in front of me, it was because he came to the training room to see me in person.

“You know why, don’t you?”

“I only know that it is because of the goddess’s territory.”

“Yes. To be more precise, the problem is the ‘goddess statues’ installed throughout the human territories, including the Gilberte Barony. Demons cannot properly exert their power within the barrier where the influence of the goddess statue is spread.”

That was the world.

“When the Demon King actually conquers human kingdoms, he makes destroying the goddess statue the top priority. Or he fights while risking great damage in a weakened state by the goddess statue.”

“Regarding the Gilberte Barony….”

“The physical distance is too far, so after teleporting, too much mana is lost, and even if we go through the seedling dungeon, the power of the goddess statue reaches inside the dungeon.”

Chief Steward Akamondu shrugged his shoulders.

“The reason I’m telling you all these secrets is because you are in the Vampire Corps. You know what happens if you betray us, right?”

“Of course, I know very well.”

Top secrets of the Demon King’s army that could not be obtained during my adventurer days.

“Even high-ranking demons are weakened in the area of the goddess statue. About that much…about 1/10 of their original strength? Or more.”

“…….”

“Keep the secret strictly.”

“Yes.”

Chief Steward Akamondu acknowledged me enough to tell me such things.

“Anyway, the Vampire Corps alone cannot covet the Gilberte Barony right now.”

“…….”

“Shall I tell you bluntly? I can easily play with a dozen high-ranking knights here with one hand, but if I leave the dungeon and go in front of the Gilberte Barony, I can barely win against one high-ranking knight with a 60:40 chance.”

“In many ways…the goddess statue is the problem.”

“Well, it is possible to destroy the barony if we gather all our forces and fight, but the damage will be too great. The bleeding will be too much.”

It was a matter of efficiency.

“Why, do you have a good way to destroy the goddess statue?”

“It’s not that. But what I’m saying is that we should create a trap in the Gilberte Barony to send soldiers to the dungeon more reliably than now.”

I pointed down.

“The prisoner unit you sent earlier, the Kite group, were quite powerful even among adventurers.”

“That’s right.”

“Yes. They were practically the second-best force in the Gilberte Barony.”

Based on Gentia’s information, I organized the backgrounds of the prisoners.

“Despite the fact that they are presumed to have been all killed, the Gilberte Barony wants to create a justification to send soldiers here with all their might.”

“What kind?”

“Just capture one prisoner and keep him alive.”

I took out a quill pen.

“We will write a letter of ‘prisoner release’ on his body and send it.”

“…Whose?”

“Jake Gilberte, and Eris Alvatea.”

“……Eris is the woman you are training, but wasn’t that guy named Jake already dead?”

“They don’t know if he’s dead or alive, do they? Not yet.”

“……Are you going to sell a corpse?”

“Chief Steward.”

I pretended to wipe my face with one hand.

“Until it is observed, they don’t know if Gilberte’s bastard is dead or alive, so we can sell it.”

“…….”

“And to confirm that.”

“More adventurers. More women.”

The ratio of women, virgins, was low?

“Instead of 5 or 10 people coming in, we need to make about 100 people come in.”

Increase the absolute number.

“Then we can secure more virgins, right?”

Twitch.

Chief Steward Akamondu’s ears perked up.

“More virgins?”

“Yes.”

“…So, what do you want?”

“There are many things, but ultimately, it comes down to one.”

I rubbed my fingertips together.

“To secure more virgins who are easy to train and turn into vampires.”

For now, 3 people.