Shadow's POV:

“Arkley, is everything ready?”

“A few second more, Master Shadow.”

“Tell me if it ready.”

“Yes, Master Shadow.”

Wearing a trench coat, I pulled out my spy glass and surveyed the whole situation around the sea. On the surface of the sea, I could see a lot of waves and ripples, and also some occasion small explosion. I knew that the explosions were coming from Dancchi, the other member in charge of making distraction. At one glance, it looked enough to just let her do it. But I did not want to take any chances.

“Master Shadow, everything is loaded and ready to go.”

A slight metallic sound came from behind me, but I kept my eyes on the surface of the sea around the prison. “Aim every cannon at the sea around the prison. Make it so that it hit in a random place.”

“Understood, Master Shadow.”

“As for the ballista, let them be ready to shoot at enemies that may attack us from the sky.”

“Understood, Master Shadow.” Arkley then tapped his metal mandible as to response to his master’s order. Then the deck was filled with various sounds of engine and gear moving around. “It is ready.”

“FIRE!”

Sounds of explosions came after I issued that firing command. The ship shook after each cannon released their load toward the sea. Thick cloud of smoke covered the whole deck, making visibility close to nothing. When the smoke dissipated, a figure of me still holding onto my spyglass could be seen. A small smile decorated my face.

Below the airship, various explosions courtesy of both Dancchi’s skill and also my ship's bombardment could be seen. Pillars of water reached the sky as each explosive round detonated inside the sea. It was truly a scene of chaos.

“Load the next one!”

“Yes, Master Shadow.”

Just after that, I finally put back the spyglass. I then leaned onto the railing while looking at the chaos below.

“Let’s hope the distraction is enough. Go release him quickly.”

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Biel's POV:

Using my Mind magic to create many parallel minds to watch over the details and using analyzing magic, I studied the Death magic in the Prison and noticed that it was a variant type of the spell "Vrash's Wrath". It's a problematic spell where its formations and effects change depending from each caster and each target. But its weak point is that if the spell wasn't used by a powerful and wise Death magic user, its formation will have holes. I start to use my own Death Force to flicker within the formation, bringing it in and out again while searching for its holes. After some minutes of scanning a good part of the whole formation, I found that not only were there holes, but there were also some parts of the formation that were relatively weak. So, I created more parallel minds to start to flicker with these parts and slowly alter them.

Whenever I find one hole, I made a parallel mind and used it to start to inscribe a small magic formation that will be inserted in the hole which will be used to corrupt the rest. After some more minutes, I finalized the analyzed information and confirmed that all the weak parts were altered. After that, I created formations to fill all the holes. I touched the prison while swirling black runes and magic formations surround the prison and me. All that I have to do now was wait for the others to finish their preparations.

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Bathy's POV:

Yup, it as I suspected.... I have absolutely no clue on what I'm doing. I mindlessly stared at the seal for a couple of seconds and wondered what the hell it was, the only clue was the faint familiarity I felt with it.

Probably because of the fact that the seal and I have both demon and divine parts. Hmmmm.... If only I took the time to study seals. So far, all I know was that a seal was basically a lock, and all locks can be bypassed. So all I have to do was find the correct combination? Simple enough but well, I don't know where to start.

I can sense that the seal has something to do with blood however, so I started with that. I nicked my arm with a summoned sword and manipulated the blood to appear next to the seal. There was a definite correlation between the blood and the seal as they both started vibrating slightly. I used my aura to infiltrate into the seal and after exploring, I found that inside of it was basically a three-dimensional maze - four floors. But, something wasn't right. The hell was the point of the maze without a door or anything?

I thought about it for a couple of seconds and in that time, Biel seemed to have finished her seal. I sighed internally and continued thinking. It was a maze, it resonated with blood. Maybe if I guided the blood through it? That wouldn't work, the blood was corporeal and the seal's maze well, wasn't.

Then, what if I extracted the essence out of my blood and guided it through? It was plausible. So, I tried. Extracting the essence was easy, but as I got further into the maze, the maze started changing and becoming more complex...something it didn't do when I originally examined it. Eventually though, after some time, I made it to the end. Remembering the warning about having to unseal the seals at the same time, I left a piece of my aura to restrain the essence from moving as I came back to my senses and waited for Khaos to finish preparing for his seal.

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Khaos's POV:

As I see the others get to work, I decided that I might as well get started as well. I closed my eyes for a while as I mentally and spiritually prepared myself. After a while, I opened my eyes and immediately activated my Eye of Odin. Coupled with my ability to sense essence, I scanned the prison and saw traces of Gen's life essence mixed with the essence of the prison itself. I must admit, the essences have been blended real well.

Slowly, I raised both my hands and begin manipulating the two essences with my Essence Manipulation skill. Sweat trickled down my temples as I concentrated on the job. Slowly, I divided the mixture of essences into two distinct parts - Gen's life essence and the Prison's Earth Essence. Then, while keeping these two essences separated, I moved the Earth Essence as close to the surface as possible and Gen's life essence as close to the core as possible. This way, the life essence will be as close to Gen as possible.

I looked at the others to make sure they are ready. On a count of three we will begin unsealing. Hopefully they know that immediately after unsealing, Gen will be exposed and his body will be very weak to the pressures of the sea. I can quickly equip my Divine Touch mask to heal Gen and recover his stamina but it is better if we can leave the sea as soon as possible.

Anyways, I nodded towards the others and raised a hand...3...2...1....

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Biel's POV:

Seeing Khaos's signal, I made my countdown as well...3...2...1...0....

I push my hand into the Earth Prison and make a grabbing motion, sinking my fingers into the rocks and calling the curse on it. With a pull, I tore the curse off. At the same time, the flaws on the magic formation that I corrupted shone bright and started to activate all the formations. However, the Runes and Circles that were floating around the prison rushed toward it and connected themselves into the formation. While I pulled my hand back, I brought out a dense black fog that whirled around me as a maelstrom. The formation shone with intense black light, but then, the parts I made and corrupted started to shine with a dark gray light.

Instantly the gray light started to expand, turning what was once black runes into gray ones. Then they collapsed...destroying the formation...and making the magic erase itself. I opened my mouth and sucked the destroyed magic towards me. As the ominous black vortex rushed into my mouth, I closed my mouth and absorbed the contents.

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Balthy's POV:

Seeing both Biel and Khaos unsealing their portions, I rapidly unleashed the aura that was holding down the essence. What followed after was fairly anticlimactic as the door simply burst open, unlocking the seal completely. My disappointment was cured, however, when I saw a large amount of Demon/Divine essence coalescing behind the door. I stared at it peculiarly before understanding what was going to happen. I was only momentarily surprised before I used my own blood essence to encase the Demon/Divine essence as one layer. I wrapped that with my aura, effectively making two layers for extra protection. I gritted my teeth as it exploded and my face became pale. It harmed me a bit. Feeling that it may be useful in the future, I merged my aura and essence with the Demon/Divine essence and stored them for safekeeping.

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Khaos's POV:

3...2...1...0.... As soon as I finish counting down, I made a pulling gesture with my hands. As my hands pull outwards, the Earth Essence expands and the Life Essence contracts. After some extreme breaking point, all of the Life Essence was sucked into the prisoner while the prison exploded outwards, debris flying towards me and my fellow adventurers. Not wasting a single moment, I rushed towards the weak body in the center of the explosion and placed Lady Luck's Warmth on Gen's face. Then, I swallowed the potions Shadow gave me that lets me breathe underwater and see in the dark. Next, I wore the mask Divine Touch which will help speed up the recovery of Gen's health and stamina.

Alright! It's time to head back up. Hopefully Shadow knows we're done and teleports us back to the ship.