The moment everyone was teleported into their respective cells , they were shocked to see the state in which they were teleported in.

The event prison escape was in a bit of a modern setting , as opposed to mediaeval setting of the general Omega. The prison was high tech , and very hard to escape from.

All competitors were teleported to floor one of the prison , and contrary to the practice breaks , here not all inmates were players. There were Npc inmates of various species here , and that made the escape that much more tricky.

Should any of the NPC rat on someone trying to escape , or threaten to rat unless they bring them along , one would be in a bind.

Everyone was spawned inside isolated cells with one window the size of one's palm on the ceiling , and one window on the thick metal door that barred the prison cell.

Additionally , the prisoners were bound by handcuffs both on their hand and their feet. Simple walking was difficult in the cell. The difficulty of the event was unlike what anyone expected .

Even if one somehow removed the bounds around their hand and feet , the metal door barring the prison cell was solid. Unlike the practice run , where it was bars , here reaching the lock?from the inside , was impossible.

Most players including SMG , that had the lockpicking wire stuffed under their tongues had the same idea about how to escape , that was to first unbound themselves from the cuffs and then somehow get the guard to open the cell door , then when the guard is least expecting it , stealthily take the guard out to ensure freedom.

This was not a bad idea , but this was not a full proof idea either. Should the guard get suspicious , or should the silent take down fail , it would spell doom for the participant.

There were three guards patrolling floor one , and many NPC inmates mixed alongwith players. It would be extremely difficult to get out of here unnoticed. SMG grit his teeth , he had freed himself from the bounds , but was not finding any openings to call over an isolated guard. He would have to take a chance , and he hated the fact that he had to gamble at the very first step of the competition. Should he be busted , it would end before it even started for him.

However , he was loosing valuable time here , he had no idea about what the prison layout was , or how much time he would need to escape the prison .

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Martin Tyler : well the prison escape event has started Aaron , and well it looks like trouble came early for the participants in this competition eh. Just escaping from the cell and the first floor , is astronomical in difficulty !

Aaron Smith : Absolutely Martin , what is to be noted here is that , cuber corporation announced while announcing this event , that should nobody be able to successfully escape the prison , then nobody would get a medal from this event. There is no guarantee that there will even be a medal in this event.

Martin Tyler : Well said Aaron , we may have a single medalist or maybe only two medal winners total. The matter of time taken to clear the event only comes into play if someone actually clears the event.

Aaron Smith : Well 30 minutes had passed since the event started Martin , and yet nobody has escaped from their cell. 23 contestants have removed their constraints though , however everyone is waiting for some opening to capitalise on the advantage.

Martin Tyler: It's one of those situations where the first to act looses Aaron , if one or two guards divert their attention to a certain inmate then the others would surely capitalise on the opening .

Aaron Smith : We see movement Martin , one of the contestants from Europe , Andrew , who is free of his bounds has called for the guards.

Martin Tyler : He is coughing violently , and I assume has bit his tongue , soo that blood is pouring from his mouth , making it seem like a medical emergency he is trying the guards to open up.

Aaron Smith : well , he better be carefull , because he has the attention of two guards on him. Not one. However the other guard has been attracted by the player from Mexico , Josè , the notorious prison escapee. All the guards are distracted now Martin , let's see if something interesting happens.

SMG was carefully observing how the situation unfolded , and understanding how it worked.

José managed to take down the solo guard , and make a run from floor one?, however , Andrew who drew the attention of two guards , was busted.

While josè made a run , all the other inmates started to scream that a prisoner was escaping , however since the other guards were busy with Andrew , he managed to flee detection.

It was a brilliant move by Josè , and it gave SMG a lot of inspiration. SMG picked up on a critical point that others missed , and that was that only two other guards were left. Which meant that atmost two more people could use the guards to open the door to escape.

Thinking quick on his feet , He started to bang on the doors of his prison cell , calling the guard out. SMG called extremely vulgar insults to the guards , who was instantly taunted and started to walk towards SMG's cell with a tazer In hand.

The other contestant from Country G , the one that taunted Jhonny at the start of the event , drew the attention of the other one. Both were successful in taking down the guards , and were free to escape floor one.

The other inmates kept screaming at the top of their lungs , however nobody who was free from their cell was stopping for anybody else and no matter how much they pleaded , they went onto try escape the prison.

With all three guards down , there was currently no way to escape from the prison cell.

One hour into the event , with one inmate dead and three escaping floor one , the others started to get desperate. Everyone except Jhonny English ofcourse , who was busy perfecting the penguin walk in his chains.