Summoned with an SSS-Rank Portal Skill

The mages in the fortress were surprised with the attack. Never were they expecting someone to attack them from inside!

At first, they firmly believed that William was just trying to lure them out of the fortress. But the surprise attack? They never saw it coming.

William had to move. He could see the sparks of the spells that were being thrown inside the fortress.

"Retaliate!" one of the mages said. "Attack them with everything we have!"

The fight really broke out. William placed the explosive sack to the side and moved at a rapid pace toward the fortress.

It was the perfect timing because they were all concerned with the soldiers who came through the sewers. Only a few mages were watching the front gate, afraid that more soldiers would come from there, but when they saw there was no one, they relaxed.

As for William, he ran toward the fortress' walls and climbed it. With his current physique power, it was really easy to do it. There was no barrier as well, so that made it even easier.

Rena was still on the watch tower. She decided to stay there and throw a few long-range spells. If she left the watch tower to go downstairs where everyone was fighting, then the chance of her getting hit and dying was really high.

William not only climbed the fortress walls but he also climbed the watch tower.

When he jumped on top of the watch tower, Rena was surprised. "Damn, it's you," she said. "I was afraid they had reached me somehow."

William didn't want to lose time. "Come with me. We have to move."

But as they were about to move, a few soldiers came through the watch tower stairs.

They were soldiers from the group that was with William. When they saw him there, they were shocked.

"Jailer Brand? How are you here?" one of them said.

For them, William was supposed to be outside causing a commotion at the front gate, and not inside the fortress.

Despite having all of those questions in their minds, the soldiers focused on what they should do, and that was to eliminate Rena.

"We will talk about it later," one of them said. "Let's kill her and go downstairs."

William couldn't let them do that. The soldiers moved toward Rena with their magical swords in hand. William did the same toward them, but he was faster.

With Asura in his hands, William dashed through the soldiers like a skilled dancer, and his sword cut the throat of all soldiers in a matter of seconds.

They weren't that strong, but the real reason for it to be so easy was the fact that they were not expecting William to do that!

In the end, four soldiers laid dead on the ground. Rena was not surprised by William's display of skill. She already knew he was someone powerful.

"So you are a jailer? I am a guard in this fortress! What are you doing here anyway?" she asked him.

"No time to explain," William said. "Let's leave this place."

Rena nodded.

Between the two, William was the one with the strongest body, so he would be the one going down the fortress the same way he climbed it.

Just like during that time to climb the tree, William had Rena in his arms as he jumped down the fortress walls. He didn't want to stay there to find out why they were taking over the fortress.

"What do we do now?" she asked him, concern clear in her voice.

She was also role-playing that character, and she believed that completing her goals was the right thing to do in that scenario. William was also like that at first, but he was not in the mood to keep playing as a weak jailer.

He sighed. "Honestly, I don't know, but we are certainly going to become wanted people. You and I are fleeing from the battle from different sides."

That was inevitable. They would have to run away and keep their identities hidden. Or find the portal to the next floor, which was really hard to find, apparently.

Anyway, William and Rena left that fortress, not looking back at all. Both of them felt bad for the lives of the soldiers who would perish in that fight, but what kept them sane was the fact they might not even be real people.

Could they even respawn? William didn't see a human respawning at that point, but things could change in the future.

What they wanted to know now was where would they go.

"We cannot go to the kingdom I come from, and you cannot go to the kingdom you come from, so where do we even go?" he asked Rena.

He didn't know much information about the other kingdoms that might be near them. Gladly, Rena did!

"We have a prisoner from another kingdom in the fortress," she said. "He's from another kingdom not that far from here. I think we can reach it in like, 3 days if we go really fast or if you tame a beast like you did last time."

"A prisoner?"

"Yes. The fortress is also a type of prison apparently. Some of the most dangerous people in the region are there."

That was a pretty good information to have. William started to ponder that perhaps they were trying to take over the fortress just to get a prisoner from there. Who knows.

But he was not staying there to find out. He and Rena left the area, moving far away from the fortress.

"It will take a while until people from this kingdom know that I am a fugitive, so we might have enough time to leave," Rena said.

The news didn't travel that fast in that world. They didn't have Internet or something like that. So, it would take at least a few days until a big portion of the kingdom knew that she was a fugitive, and that was more than enough time for them!

William wanted to tame a beast to make their journey fast, but he didn't see any. It was another thing that puzzled him. Where were the beasts in that dungeon floor?

Usually, the dungeon floors were packed with beasts, but that one was different for some reason.

Still, according to what he overheard from the soldiers, there were beasts, only in a small percentage. So, he still had the chance of finding one!

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They kept running away for 2 days straight. The kingdom that Rena talked about was slightly farther than they expected it.

She was hoping that they managed to get a horse or tame a beast to go faster, but they didn't find any beast!

As for the horse, well, the news traveled faster than they expected it… Portraits of Rena's face were spread across the kingdom after just one day she fled the fight.

"How did they do this so fast?" Rena wondered.

William could only think of one thing. "They might have a mage capable of teletransporting, or a device to do it. That should explain the fast time."

Due to how difficult it was to teletransport, William didn't even think of that before, but now it seemed that was the case.

That turned their lives into a living hell. They couldn't enter in the cities without everyone recognizing Rena!

They couldn't go to the kingdom where William came from because now he would certainly be a wanted man there as well!

The only thing left for them was to try to be as stealth as possible and avoid entering in the big cities. That made the journey much more slower to them.

Not only that, but they faced another problem, and that was the travelers on the road. Even if they avoided all the cities and villages, they would still find people in the road that would recognize them!

"We really need to get a flying beast tamed," Rena said, "maybe we should focus in just finding it without caring about our journey?"

William agreed with her. It would make things much easier. So, they stopped moving toward the kingdom, and rather moved to the thick forests, looking for beasts to tame.

What they wanted was a flying beast, and for that, it was better to look for them near the mountains. The good part was that the kingdom they were in had a lot of mountains!

They climbed the mountains. It was cold on top of them, but nothing that they couldn't endure.

William and Rena looked inside each cave they found on those mountains, and they didn't see a single flying beast.

It was starting to worry them. Could that dungeon floor have that few beasts? Never did William think that he wanted a dungeon floor packed with beasts again.

"When we need them, they don't show up, how bad…" he muttered.

But eventually, in one of the caves they were exploring, they found a flying beast. Or rather, a big chance of having one there.

The first sign was the bones in the cave's entrance. It was clear that something lived in there.

They really hoped it was a flying one that could make their journey much easier.

Pushing the fear away, they moved into the depths of the cave.