Chapter 1033
After the meeting, Siegfried headed straight for the prison.
In the capital of the Proatine Kingdom, Preussen, was a large prison known as the Aoji Prison[1].
The Aoji Prison housed not only criminals from the Proatine Kingdom but also war criminals and prisoners of war captured from enemy nations during wartime. It was one of the most notorious facilities on the entire continent, and that was because the prison was not an average detention facility.
It was essentially a labor camp.
The prisoners were forced to work in the mana stone mines located in the mountain behind Preussen. They were also forced to manufacture war supplies, industrial materials, and even do just about every form of backbreaking labor imaginable.
Most people would think that being subjected to such harsh labor would kill the inmates sooner or later, but there was one problem with this notorious facility—it had notoriously good welfare.
The Proatine Kingdom did not allow the inmates in the Aoji Prison to simply die off. Far from tormenting or torturing them, they provided them with balanced meals and regular rest.
While this sounded like a humane way of treating inmates, they were actually fostering an environment where the inmates would have no choice but to work. As a result, the inmates spent the rest of their lives laboring in good health and would only be freed from it the day they died.
This was a fate that some might find even more excruciating than death itself.
They were forced to work every single day, endlessly, until their mouths ran dry with exhaustion, only to be nursed back to work the next day.
It was an endless cycle of hell.
“Ughh...!”