Joshua sorted out the items that the third prince had left behind before he left. Halfway through, Joshua noticed that the prince had ied something simir to a four-dimensional pocket on a little blue fat cat.

  In it was a whole load of bizarre relics, and Joshua mao find a ring that could e in handy.

  The ring was called the "Ring of Metamorphosis", or in its more trendy he Ring of Joshua Annerude". The object was ented with magic that could affect the minds of everyone in its viity. As long as he put the ring on, he would look like a different person in the eyes of the people around him.

  Wheh was sughtering the bandits, the vilgers and the caravan members had seeh talking to Joshua. That made it impossible for Joshua to pretend to be a hunter and blend into the group, so he had to find a way to ge his appearance.

  "Hmm... Hmm... Hmm??!"

  As Joshua was w how he should test the ring out, a series of strange whining could be heard. When Joshua looked up, he realized that Ciri was the source.

  His water elemental servant had brought dinner a everything up on a dining table. It was a sumptuous dinner, and for a programmer like Joshua who survived on oodles, the roasted meat, and other dishes oable were indeed vish.

  As for Ciri, the food oable was something that could not afford to eat even once a month.

  Driven by hunger, Ciri's table manners were ent, and even her intellectual mage side was totally destroyed by her puffed cheeks.

  Yet, she looked rather cute for some reason? Adorably dumb in a way...

  "I'd suggest that you don't overeat, Ciri. We have lots of physical work to do soon," Joshua said as he pushed a gss of water before Ciri.

  From the non-stop beating of her chest, she had clearly choked on her food.

  "hysical work? And why has your appearance ged?"

  Ciri took the gss of water, and only after she gulped down its entire tents that she avoided the fate of being "the first mage to choke to death on food".

  "This is just a little trick, but it is not the point. Did you fet about the breakout pn at midnight?"

  Joshua pulled off the ring, and even a novice mage like Ciri could see the difference. Clearly, the Ring of Metamorphosis could only deceive ordinary folk with little magical knowledge. heless, that was more than enough.

  "I have not fotten about it, but you sure are not afraid of trouble."

  Ciri wiped the edge of her mouth with a napkin oable. Ciri only partially heard what Joshua had said earlier as all of her attention was focused on the delectable meal.

  Although she had only heard part of it, Ciri had an idea of what Joshua was trying to do.

  "For the creation of a good movie, this little work is nothing at all."

  paring the filming ditions Joshua had now to those ba Earth, humble would be sidered praiseworthy already.

  A good movie oh would generally take a long time from filming to produ. For example, "Cast Away" took almost one and a half years from filming to its release. Part of that time ent waiting for the male lead's hair and beard to grow to the appropriate length.

  Joshua's only advantage was his memory and the abilities of the actors in this world.

  Joshua could remember every shot of the movie, so he did not o worry about teical questions like what sort of angle he should use to express the se properly. Joshua only o shoot the entire movie ohe only difference was the cast.

  "While I do not really uand what this whole movie thing is about... I do want to see the ending of Beauty and the Demon."

  Sure enough, Ciri assionate about the story. Besides, Ciri had read the script that Joshua left oable, only to see the ending unwritten.

  If it had not been for the fact that Ciri was starving to death, she might have actually fretted over the story and .

  "You'll know how it ends in a few days' time. Time to work now."

  Joshua calcuted the time, and it was now close to midnight. Four hours had passed sinor was sent to the dungeon.

  If Ynor's skills were up to snuff, four hours would be enough to get the vilgers to accept him into their flock.

  Joshua put on the Ring of Metamorphosis again, ged into a det-looking robe, and picked up a somewhat useless staff...

  The staff had been shaved out of a stick by Joshua for four hours, and aside from being a prop, it had no other use.

  Joshua now had the image of an able mage.

  " you not just tell me the ending? Uh... I see."

  Ciri relutly stood up. If earlier she listeo Joshua out of fear for her life, now, she was driven by sstead.

  She had promised the vilgers that she would return to rescue them before she escaped. It was a casual lie, but she never expected to see it through today...

  And her role in the operation was as Joshua's assistant...

  When it came to her own life, the mage could still be trusted. Not to mention, Joshua had promised her a lifetime of meat to eat if she followed him and the ending of the script.

  Joshua actually had experien breaking someo of prison. While it was all done in games, at least he had some prior practice, and that gave him enough mental preparation as well.

  The Royal Capital's prison was indeed very close to the Royal Castle.

  It took about half an hour for Joshua, with Ciri in tow, to see the prison in dim green light beh the night sky.

  "Ciri, rex a little. The denizens of the Demonic Realm are ordinary citizens with minds of their own. They will not harm you."

  Ciri had been tense and nervous the entire way; she was a human, after all! A human sashaying dowreet in the Demonic Realm would attract every pair of eyes in the area.

  She could hear the whispers from the ers of the street almost stantly. The murmurs sounded like "seems tasty" and "smells really good", which sent chills down her spine.

  However, Ciri was not the type to be messed around with. The word timid was never in Ciri's diary, so she had always just rolled up her sleeves, picked up her dainty staff, and put on a face that was ever ready to fight.

  That was the w of the jungle, which she had learned from the jungle. She lear when she fronted a bear once!

  The moment she retreated when they met, that would mean she had lost. As for mere demons, Ciri could simply clobber them down with her short staff.

  Yet, when Joshua reminded her and poi her neck, her will to fight and momentum disappeared instantly.

  A mighty beast would never win against a crafty hunter. No! Not to mention, Ciri was no mighty beast as her strength was about that of a small cat with slightly sharper cws.

  "We have arrived."

  Joshua stopped a few steps before the prison, and a few wardens appeared from the shadows and gave him the go-ahead.

  Weebkun