Authors note: Sorry if it`s passed schedule but please give me plus one or two days since I write it on my portable console, since my laptop and phone is trashed right now until I have bought a new one I have to type it down word for word. Enough of the pathetic excuses and here is the chapter. Well please enjoy and tell me your thoughts about this fiction, I want to improve my writing and welcome reasonable criticsim. Thank you.
Timothy Incenum was a small time slave trader, living in Gringallos. Since he operated the only slave shop in this relatively small town. He had cunningly monopolized this line of enterprise in these backwater regions, by bribing the city lord to keep other competitors away from snatching his massive profits. He even payed straying bandits to capture innocent travellers.
Slaves are common in the Ehrental empire, they didn`t possessed any rights or required any payment. The only thing guaranteed to them was food to sustain their lives, that prescribed the imperial ruler regarding the slave treatment.
Anyone could suddenly become a slave maybe tomorrow or the day after tommorow, who knows. The trivial reason for someone to fall into slavery ranged from debts, crimes to being captured and sold in foreign lands by anyone, who sought the quickest way of gaining the glittery gold.
Without the means to protect oneself, many abided the humiliating treatment of being abducted and sold as a slave.
The despicable Timothy had succesfully established his slave bussiness in this city, after many years of investing into bandits and the town lords treasury, now the harvest of his lifework stood before him because his shady enterprise began to flourish.
But now he helplessly floated above the ground and struggled with his hands and feet to get away from a mere child. He orginally wanted to capture that good looking boy and sell him for a fortune and it would have surely gotten him quite a sum, instead his greed led him to an immeasurable misfortune.
The ugly fat bellied slaver thought, that the boy would have been an easy prey and it was regardless to him of whether the brat belonged to nobility or not.
Once he had become a slave the youths belongings would have automatically transferred to him and the kid would have been just like any other slave.
Aluzar arrived standing behind the levitated Timothy and grinned a baleful smirk, he repeated with an authorative tone his question,
“I asked you a question you fat bug, don`t make me repeat myself again. Otherwise you will not be left unpunished like those bodyguards or slaves you sended to enslave me, ugly vermin !”
The young boy drew a circle in the empty air with his index finger and the floating slave store owner turned around, facing the handsome youth who showed a displeased look,
“Dirty excrements like you don`t have the right to look down on me !”
He pointed his finger down to the ground and Timothy slammed down, the telekinetic force made him kneel on the dirty floor while restraining him from moving away.
The Slave trader sweated cold drops from his skin, he tried to break free from this strange power holding him down, but couldn`t twitched an eyebrow. He stammered, pleading for his life while his forehead kissed the floor and unable to even look up to his suppressor,
“ P-ple-please ha-have me-mercy I-i w-was bl-bli-blinded b-by gre-greed you-young m-ma-master. Spa-spare m-my li-fe a-and I-i w-will g-give y-you e-everything y-you w-want, you-young m-ma-master”
Aluzar snorted in disdain and stomped on the back of the kneeling mans head,
“ Insolent fat maggot, know that I can take everything I want from you, understood !! You can`t give me anything because your powerlessness is incapable of protecting your useless material wealth from me. Your insignificant life is only there to be used as a stepping stone, nothing more. ”
The small elegant shoes pressed on the unsightly Timothy as if he was squashing an ugly insect and inside the slave trader hopelessness and anger boiled up in him, making him shout while his tears and snot dripped down on the ground,
“ Hicck...you damn brat hicck.....do you think you can...sniff...hicck....get away with this ....hicck....the city lord will find out...sniff...that I died and....sniff...hicck....he will surely find out....sniff...urgh...that I went missing....and will inform my family..hick...they will investigate this incident....and then...”
The preteen voice broke into his pathetic speech and sneered amusingly,
“ And then what? What can you do? What can the city lord do? What can your family do? Now the real question is; What can I do to all of you!? Dirty bug I will show you true despair, but first I will take everything you have as a payment because that is one of the various things I can do.”
He walked over the kneeling Timothy and dragged him over the ground with telekinesis and wiped with him the ground behind his back.
He passed through the door where his attackers came from and found himself standing before a stairway leading to an upper floor.
The youth turned his head to look at the ugly slaver, whose clothes were slightly tattered, and the playful child showed an evil grin. The expression of his fat playmate disorted to desperating paled face and he tried to plea for mercy,
“ W-wait pleas....aaaahaaargh ow ahhaaa aah ow aaargh nngh aah daamnaargh....”
*rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble,*
The boy climbed up the stairs without paying the screaming human any attention, as he reached the end of the stairsteps he inquired the exhausted and pained slaver,
“ Now first tell me the location of your valuables and your so called best slaves, secondly; tell me the the location of your residence. I warn you once this time, there won`t be a second time, when you don`t give me the correct answers I will personally slaughter your family and torture them while letting you watch it, if you give me an honest answer your family won`t die by my hands. I give you my word and I am someone who keeps their promises.”
Aluzar stated these demands without looking back but Timothy hesitated for a moment because if he doesn`t give him a correct answer, not only he would die but also his family and so he reluctantly answered with a despaired voice,
“ I-i have two treasure chests one is in my personal working room and the other.....at my home in the basement. The he room next to my private room is were the two newly slaves are confined, the chambers are just straight ahead and you can`t miss them because those are the only rooms with magic locks on the doors.”
He walked into the direction the fat slave shop owner told him and headed straight on while he incidentally asked,
“ Oh!? So you can use magic?! Can you tell me why most people don`t use it to improve their lifes?! I am curios since I thought that everyone is born with the power to use magic. Am I mistaken or not?”
The human fatso slithered over the wooden floor and tried to reply, as he not wanted to anger the little tyrant,
“ Urgh, yes you are right but most people ....argh...can`t use mana...ow...due to their low spiritual strength, especially....ow..argh...us humans because of our short lifespans....aah..urgh thus we rely on magic...nnghhow...tools, but their are exceptions...like talented people, who...reached the 10th rank and are titled...Archmages or Warrior Lords, they have a longer lifespan....On the continent of Vetra`Zulo those experts ....can be counted on one hand and considered...living national treasures...aah argh....it is said that they have more influence than the emperor himself...ow”
Aluzar silently listened to Timothys explanation and already knew that humans are mostly unable to perfectly utilize their mental capacity unlike him whose body was incapable to keep up with his advanced knowledge of applying his mental power or what they call spiritual strength. Although, his brain structure boasted more capacity than he had before since his brain matter fused with the liquid mana it soaked up, his potential rose to an unfathomable level.
The supreme pure blood vampire in his handsome human disguise arrived at two doors with missing key holes after passing a long corridor with small sleeping quarters, they were probably made for employees or slaves. Those people are no longer, thus explained the dead silence and the opened empty rooms.
The child stepped aside and gazed down at the ugly slave trader with his morphed icy blue eyes.
Without saying a single word the chubby slaver understood and heaved himself up and staggered to one of the doors and infused his mana into the medieval doorknob, consisting of a round handle, and a magic circle pattern glowed on the gripping ring.
With a small *klack* the door opened and the small boy forcefully pushed him through the room entrance using his telekinesis.
Timothy stumbled due to the sudden movement on his face and felt that he was being restrained by the boys strange magic, no matter how hard he fought against this binding he couldn`t lift a finger and had to helplessly stay put on the dirty floor.
Little Aluzar trampled over the plump slave shop owner, as if he was a carpet, and looked around the room. It supposed to be the fatsos private working room and had a wide space to fit in a big working desk, a semi luxurious chair, behind the desk stood multiple shelves filled with books and bundles of parchment.
The only object that didn`t fit in the working panorama was a medium sized bed standing in a corner, The youthly looking vampire could imagine what unsightly acts the fat bug had commited on it.
He searched the whole room for precious items and found a big chest with a magic lock underneath the desk, the youth levitated the magic safe and placed it before the motionless Timothy, the ugly slaver immediately knew what he had to do and placed his hand, that was temporary released from the telekinetic binding and infused his mana into it.
Aluzar could have tried to forcefully crack open the safe but why inefficiently exhaust oneself if you have the key.
*klack*
The 60 cm tall and 1 meter wide chests opened and once again the small boy immobulized the big bellied man and pushed up the lid of the metallic chest revealing a pile of copper, silver and gold coins mixed with gleaming jewels and magic cores, reaching the edges of the chest.
He looked at the grounded slave merchant and grinned,
“ Hoooh, thats quite a fortune for a mere merchant in a town like this. I can see why you are so well nourished and I bet you even ate the share for the slaves as well, hehehe.”
He stepped on Timothys head and pressed him face down on the dirty ground and Timothys face turned red from anger and frustration because never in his life had he been insulted and humiliated to this extent, but he could do nothing at all against this mysterious powerful child.
Aluzar made a chest appear from his interspatial ring, it was one of the twelve chests filled with the metallic goods from the cave where Saput had been trapped.
He twisted his stretched out palm upside down and the slave merchants fortune floated up while pouring it`s content into his chest and once Timothys ill earned wealth was in his black dirt covered chest.
He closed the lid and stored it away in his signet ring and proceeded to the neighbouring room, where the high priced slaves supposed to be confined.
Timothy couldn`t witness the young using his interspatial ring because his lips deeply kissed the floor and once again he scrubbed the wooden floor with his whole body, until the young boy stood before the magic locked room next door, yet again he had to rattle himself up to open the confining room.
His chubby fingers touched the doorhandle and opened upon contact with his mana, but this time he twisted his wobbly body and attempted to shoot a fireball at the little devil in this desperating situation, but it was a fruitless endeavor.
*thud* *bang*
Aluzar sensed the rapidly increasing heartbeats from the weak fatass and figured out that he would try something to rescue him from this futile position he was in. But he instantly closed in before Timothy could use his magic and a well placed side kick in his stomach made his darting eyes bulge out of their eyesockets and his heavy body crashed through the room, denting the metal door due to the power of the impact. He rolled over the wooden floor and crashed against the stonewall, what knocked him unconscious.
The young boy snorted disdainfully and strolled into the room that was furnitured with multiple beds and stinked of feces coming from a pit latrin in a corner.
The chamber had no windows and luminous stones lit only a small range of the dirty space. In a corner where the light couldn`t reach, two hiding figures cowered in fear and he unconcernedly called out to them,
“ Show yourself, if you don`t want to end up like that fat scumbag overthere.”
One of the figures whispered to the smaller figure with a soothing female voice,
“ It`s alright I will protect you, everything will be ok I promise you, ok.”
The smaller one just nodded in the dark corner and they slowly moved to the light. Although, he already knew what they looked like, thanks to his vampiric vision, he wanted them to personally show themselves before him.
He wasn`t here for charity reasons and not to free them from their shackles or the likes, he was originally here to buy some slaves capable of serving his purposes.
The two individuals stepped into the light, before him stood a marvelous beauty, in tattered lumps of clothes, with long pointed ears and flawless white skin and hiding behind her trembled a small girl, that seemed to be in his current physical age, with small scales covering the sides of her arms and tighs and she had two tiny horns sprouting from her head. The both of them were shackled on hands and feet by cuffs.
The 1.80 meter tall beauty began to talk first,
“ I thank you young boy for helping us, we are eternally indebted to you, now could you please remove these enslavement collars. The magic circle prevents us from removing it on our own.”
Aluzar was intrigued by the magic circle inscribed on the collars and he used his telekinetic force to make the tall woman kneel, but she could actually struggle against it and kept herself standing upright,
“ W-what is this strange power. I can`t sense any magic from it. You! Are you doing this to me !”
Her wonderous eyes turned to an anger filled glare and the small handsome youth slowly approached the bautiful elf and gave her a mischievous smile,
“ Don`t mistunderstand me, I didn`t come here to free you from your unlucky situation. I came to claim me some slaves but since the ugly bug wanted to enslave me I am currently in a therappy session and I am here to collect the payment for it. Now stop resisting and let me inspect the collar.”
He concentrated his soul power and motioned his hand into downward gesture and the elf immediate collapsed down on her knees while she showed a defiant expression. Because she couldn`t fight against the ominous force of the little boy, she was angry at herself and helplessness.
The long haired boy took a closer look at the collar and noticed the multiple magic circles that were engraved along the circular black metal collar.
He touched the black collar while the beautiful elven woman trembled in resistance and gave him a stare containing her complete hatred, as if she would have ripped him to shreds the moment he had extended his hands towards her neck,
“ You lowly human !! Even a child like you is already corrupted by greed. I don`t understand what you ment by therapy but didn`t your mother or father teached you that Galizariz, the goddess of nature and mercy despises such acts of enslavement. She created our world and you should respect the freedom of the living beings on it, thus yield to
her reason. Oh young human there is still enough time to change your ways.”
Aluzars facial expression turned grim and he pulled her by the enslavement collar, showing her a disdainful glare and sensual lips curved to a challenging sneer,
“ You foolish elf , my parents are no longer anymore and even if they would have been alive, they would have said the same thing that I`m about to say to you: Where is your goddess of nature and mercy when you have been enslaved?! I believe in beings that truly will help me, that is myself and my faithful servant and maybe even in the one who created me, eventhough unreliable he granted me this new world full of mysteries. So tell me why should I yield to an existence that doesn`t give a shit about you at all and why should I listen to a sermon about morals from an elven girl, who is powerless against her oppressors?! I don`t think you have let them catch you on purpose, right?”
The beautiful elven woman couldn`t find a reasonable argument and bit on her lips, the small draconian girl had a troubled face and didn`t know what to do and so she mustered up her courage and tried to push him away from the female elf while shouting in a foreign language,
“Stop, don`t hurt Narlenia. She didn`t do anything bad to you.”
The boy, who heighted a little taller than her, was annoyed by her sudden intervention and the shaking from her weak pushing and punching on his chest, a snake head preyed on the little girls hand and was about to snap at her but Aluzar reprimanded his serpent servant telepathically,
“ Stop, Azariah!!”
The little girl shrieked in fear as she was pushed back before anything could happen, the draconian child instantly hid behind the kneeling Narlenia.
Azariahs protesting resounded in his head in many voices,
“ B-but masster-that insssolent-girl attempted-to hurt-you, ssshe-desserved to-be punisshed-nobody iss -allowed to-touch masster-unless they -are loyal-sssservantsss like-ussss!”
Aluzar sighed and face palmed himself while he shook his head in denial and transmitted his thoughts to her,
“ Listen Azariah, I appreciate your protective attitude but don`t position yourself above your master and decide whats best for me or not. The only one who decides which person is allowed to touch me is still none other then myself, understood?!”
The serpent answered in apologizing tones,
“ Yesss massster-we are -sssory,-we will-reflect on -our misssstakess.”
The small boy still had his hands on the black collar and he now poured his mana into it, the magic circle accepted his mana imprint and the whole magic formation engraved in the collar began to shine and on his frail tender right hand appeared a magic circle, recognizing him as the new owner of her, since it seems that the dumb slave trader didn`t personally owned her yet.
As a test he commanded her while releasing the telekinetic binding,
“ Now tell me, what you are, who you are and how you ended up in this god forsaken slave shop, I expect an honest answer.”
The elven woman couldn`t help but reply with a truthful answer, caused bby the enslavement collar forcing her to heed to this young boys order, otherwise she would be feeling an unbearable pain if she lied or disobeyed him,
“ My name is Narlenia Misflower, I am 300 years old and if you have eyes you can see that I am an elf, to be more precise I am actually a high elf. We are noble beings living with nature because we want to be closer to the goddess of nature. Our high elven village was deep in the western forest but one day we were attacked by vile human bandits, luckily most of my brethern managed to flee to the elven forest kindom. Only a few brothers and sisters were captured and sold and I was bought by this ugly man a few months ago and today I arrived in this backwater city.The girl behind...”
Before she could finished her speech and tried to speak for the little draconian girl he broke her off,
“ Ok thats enough, so in short you are a tree hugging, incest bunch, living in the forest, hmm.....The last two parts reminded me of something I watched, but I don`t remember....Well, it doesn`t matter right now. I told you to speak of yourself and not for someone else.”
Narlenia protested with an irritated look,
“ Just listen I think I am more wiser and older than you, so you should follow my advice. She can`t understand the human language even I have problems communicating because the draconian language is too complicated and so.....mmmmmgh!!!!”
Aluzar prevented her from further speaking for the draconian child with his telekinetic binding and coldy stared at the high elf,
“ Would you please shut up and don`t you think that you shouldn`t adress your master with “you”. It is unbecoming of a slave and if she understands me or not doesn`t lie under your jurisdication, understood baby elf?!”
Her emotion of rage rose to the degree, where her whole head turned red, even to the tips of her long pointed ears. The enslavement magic circles seemed to control the individual only to a certain degree.
The person still have some of their free will and personality but can`t defy the order from the owner of them, who is identified by the magic imprinted into the black collar and the unwilling actions are forcefully executed by the magic circles, what also served as a saflety measures like when the slave tries to harm their master or give him false information.
It will then trigger a horrible pain until she stops her rebellious acts, that was what he concluded in his mind regarding the functions of the enslavement collar.
He wanted to create his own enslavement technique besides brainwashing and turning them into pure blood vampires, but he noted that for later times.
The good looking boy approached the little girl behind Narlenia and grabbed her by the collar, she tried to defend herself with pushing and swinging her cuffed up hands, but he pulled her to him a centimeter before his charismatic face and spoke in her language while he imprinted his mana into the collar, what started the same process like before,
“ You damn lizard girl stop struggling around, just consider yourself lucky because I don`t like killing children, but if you irritate me even more I might change my mind. I don`t have any remorses in ending an innocent life of the likes of you, but it leaves a bad aftertaste what I don`t particulary take pleasure in. Now tell me who you are, what you are and how you ended up in this place, just like your annoying elven friend.”
The newly acquired slaves fell speechless because they couldn`t believe that a small human child could speak the draconian language, that even the long lived high elf Narlenia couldn`t fully comprehend.
Narlenia was a tall elven beauty with long pointed ears that indicated that she belonged the proud high elven race. She possessed long golden hair reaching to her waist, her eyes gleamed ashen grey in their slightly rounded almond shapes. The thin yellow golden brows were enthroned over her eyes like crowns and Narlenias perfect narrowed nose flowed in a straight line to her full lips forming her sensual mouth on her heart shaped face.
Her body was slender in an hour glass form, through the tattered clothes someone could estimate her voluptous curves of her breast and bottom attached to her long legs.
Narlenia voiced her thoughts in a surprised manner,
“ H-how can such a young human child speak in the draconian tongue. I must have misheard myself just now even if this not a dream I can`t accept it, I don`t believe it !! It was definitely my imagination playing tricks on me because I haven`t eaten in days, yes thats it....”
The female elf immersed herself in ignorance and self denial, what visibly displeased him. He focused his mind and accessed the information about the languages of this world that Saput gave him.
Aluzar had already unconsciously used it to communicate with the inhabitans and now he searched through the knowledge about a specific language.
The young boy turned his head and said,
“ Stop drifting into your own world, this is reality and shut your mouth already before I have to sew it up, you damn noisy elf.”
Hearing the boy insulting her in ancient high elvish, her mental comprehension couldn`t keep up anymore and her ashen grey eyes lost the lively gleam while she started muttering something to herself.
He now paid his attention to the draconian girl and looked closely into her eyes, causing her to blush in shyness.She began to tell her story in a cute girly voice,
“ I-i belong to the d-draconian race and my name is Lofrinfel Ziivey, I am 6 years old. My family and I lived between the border of the draconian lairs and the human empire, we were on our way back to our home after we sold our dwarven goods in a nearby human village across the border, but suddenly many bad humans....blocked our path and mommy and daddy fought against those bad humans.....they told me to hide in the forest....b-but.....t-the b-bad sniff...sniff...h-humans c-captured me a-and b-because m-my da-daddy..sniff..hurt...sniff...so m-many o-of the b-bad hu-humans...the-they hurted da-daddy...sniff....and the-they d-did...sniff...something b-bad to mo-mommy too...sniff...a-after t-that ....sniff...mo-mommy and da-daddy di-didn`t m-moved a-anymore....uwaaaaah sniff.....waaaaahaaaaahaaaaaa...”
Aluzar sighed at Lofrinfels story and pitied her misfortune while he patted her head and said in a gentle voice,
“ Haaaah, what an unlucky child you are, but don`t despair. You have to live on for your dead parents sake and maybe one day you will exact your revenge on the ones that caused you this tragedy. Serve me and I guarantee you that you will get stronger. Well you are my slave now, but if you serve me on your own freewill, I will recognize you as one of my servants and not as a slave. You are then a part of my household. What do you think?”
The teary eyed Lofrinfel looked at Aluzar and sniffed out some word fragments,
“ W-will...sniff..I really...sniff..get..stronger...when ...I become...your...sniff.....servant...?”
The good looking youth smiled soothingly and said,
“ Yes, I will give you my word that you will get stronger”
Lofrinfel nodded slightly and he patted her head again what caused her to lighten up and smile at him.
The little draconian child was slightly smaller than the supreme pure blood vampire boy, she had black purple hair reaching to her shoulders and small scales on the side of her arms, thighs and shoulders in the same black violet color, only the lower leg was completely covered. On her tender fingers and toes were small talons and her small mouth was filled with little sharp fangs.
Lofrinfels face was human looking except for her tiny horns on her head and vertically slitted pupils she had. Her big round eyes sparkled in a fascinating amber color under the short bushy eyebrows. Her slender button nose and her thin lips gave her a cute aura with her scaled tail wagging behind her.
He turned around and annoyingly snorted in ancien high elvish,
“ Oi, noisy high elf snapped out and get your ass moving and go find some proper clothes for Lofrinfel and yourself. I want to leave this stinking shithole as soon as possible and I have an appointment with the fat bugs family. So hurry up and make yourself useful.”
Narlenia returned out of her delirium and growled while she left the confinement room to search in the sleeping quarters for useable clothes.
Aluzar walked over to the unconscious Timothy and kicked him awake,
“ Wake up filthy bug??! We have a house visit to do!”
The fat slaver trader grunted in pain,
“ I beseech your kindness you already have half of my fortune and the precious slaves I bought for a high price, if you take everything from me how will my family and I survive, please have mercy young master.”
Aluzar coldly replied in an indifferent tone,
“ Don`t be impudent you lowly vermin, I said I will take everything from you and thus I will take everything.”
The elven woman came back fully clothed with a simple trouser, a linen tunic and a cloak, because there weren`t any clothes for children, the boy quickly modified a hooded cloak made out sturdy cloth to fit Lofrinfels small body.
They headed down to the entrance of the shop and Timothy had to kiss the ground again until they reached the gruesome massacre scene, what frightened the little Lofrinfel and made the high elf furrow her brows in disgust and commented,
“ What happened here ?! The only cadaver with a head is the guy under that headless corpse over there, such ruthlessness to cut even the heads off like it was an execution. Who did tha.....!!!”
She suddenly realized that the only culprit could be the young boy before her and didn`t know what to think anymore. Azariah humbly asked through her mental connection,
“ Massster can-we eat-thossse human-corpsssesss?”
Aluzar laughed inwardly to her,
“ hahahaha, be patient Azariah, I will take them with me and reward them to you later since you helped me to kill those brothers overthere, ok ?”
Azariah happily thanked her master for being so generous and for praising her and swore to give it her best because she wanted to be praised even more.
He approached the nine human cadavers and let them vanish into thin air, including the severed heads and weapons of course.
The three spectators couldn`t believe their eyes and only one suspected something. Timothy walked ahead and Aluzar instructed him to open the cages and release the slaves in the hall from their enslavement collars.
He had no use for them at the moment and claiming so many of them right now would have seemed to suspicious to everyone with a functioning brain.
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With each freed slave the pained expression on the fat pigs face gradually worsened, but he had no other choice as complying to Aluzars demands.
The hateful glares of the slaves pierced the ugly pig slaver, but before they were released to their freedom he brainwashed them one by one and flooded their subconscious with subliminal information that undermined their awareness and thinking.
He instructed them to listen the boy without questioning him and to never talk about this incident. It was fairly easy because their mental defenses pratically didn`t existed or they never hadn`t had any countermeasure against such kind of mental manipulation to begin with.
He left them their personality and glorified himself in their minds as their benefactor, who freed them from their shackles of slavery and commanded the 30 individuals to make a name for themselves and never forget this act of kindess.
He also gave each of them 10 gold coins. It was a small investment and a speculation but maybe some of those newly freed slaves will someday come in useful in the future, he thought.
The handsome boy saw those people as sleeper cells, who will infiltrate and integrate themselves in the society of this world.
Aluzar didn`t need to completely break their minds because on weak minded people it will work if he bombard them with subliminal messages and they will unconsciously follow those instruction, it doesn`t matter if they want it or not it is burned inside their mind like a habit.
When the slave store emptied itself, the remaing people also proceeded to go outside. The night had already spread over Gringallos and a freezing cold wind blew the terrible smell through the sleeping streets.
“ Get on the cart carriage over there and tell me the direction to your home fat ass. I hope you won`t lie to me unless you want your family die by my hands and rest assured I will eventually find them either way.”
,said the boy in a cold indifferent tone to the depressed Timothy, who climbed up the cart with great difficulties.
As the elven woman and his new servant sat on the loading space, the ugly slave trader started to point out the directions while Narlenia gave him a deadly glare full of disdain and hatred,
“ M-my home is in the west section of Gringallos, where the more wealthy merchants and nobles live...”
“ Why are we going to go to him, I want you to release me already, if i had a choice I would have ran away the moment I got out of that building...”
,commented the annoying high elf unquestioned, but Aluzar calmy ignored her and sat himself on the coachmens seat and followed the pathetics slave shop owners described directions, until they stopped before a big house with a relative big frontyard.
The boy warned him,
“ Don`t do something stupid, believe me it won`t end well for you and your family.”
“ Ye-yes but please don`t hurt my family.”
,pleaded the fatso and carefully jumped off the loading area and headed to the double doors followed by the vampire in disguise and his entourage.
Aluzar ensured him,
“ I guarantee you that I and my servants or slaves won`t lay a hand on your family.”
Timothy sighed in relief because as long as his family was alive they might be able to even avenge this humiliation one day even if he would be dying, is what he thought and took out a key from a hidden pocket.
They entered the two storied stone building with wooden beams, roof and windows. A woman with a black collar in a simple one piece dress greeted them and was shocked from the wounds on Timothys body,
“ M-master what happened !”
“ It`s okay, it`s okay those people helped me when I was in serious trouble even my bodyguards fled before the enemy. G-go inform my wife and son that I have returned safely. I wanted to reward my saviours as such I need to go to the basement, I will guide them myself.”
,lied the slaver to protect his family.
The female slave nodded,
“ Very well master, please excuse me.”
And left them, heading to the slave traders wife. The visible four individuals headed to the basement and passed through a massive metal door and found themselves in a small room with one chest in the same size as in his private working room.
Timothy unlocked the box and presented the young boy with everything inside it, there were more gold and silver coins in the chest than in the private room safe at the store. Glittering jewels and magic cores replaced the copper coins the dozens and the wealth brimmed to the brink of the safe.
Just like he emptied the last chest he did the same to this one. He made an empty box from the room in the mountain cave appear and poured everything in his dirt covered chest with his telekinesis.
“ As i suspected you have an interspatial ring, who are you really?! Only supreme experts or extremely wealthy people like kings and emperors can afford them, they will wage war for a single ring ! How did you get such a rare item when you are only a kid ?!”
, blurted the high elf out loud and the little boy answered annoyed,
“ It`s not of your concern and keep your mouth shut about this issue or you will take it to the grave, understood!?”
He glared an ice cold glance and released a tremendous bloodlust to intimidate her, everyone in the room shivered and a cold sweat ran down their necks and even Azariah never felt such a horrible feeling from her master, what let her tremble in awe.
Narlenia immediately nodded without saying a word, her legs went soft and she fell on her butt and he glanced at Lofrinfel giving her a gentle smile, she instantly knew that it also applied to her.
The plump Timothy hesitantly said in a humble voice,
“ Please young master, spare me and my families life. You have promised me that you won`t lay a hand on my beloved family, so you will leave now right?”
Aluzar smirked sinisterly and replied,
“ Now, don`t be so hasty and I wanted to greet your family and pay my respect to them, I don`t like to leave loose ends when there are possibilities to tie them up nice and clean without grudges, don`t you thinks so too?”
The chubby slave trader looked the youth in the face and could see the evil smile of a merciless demon that he had provoked,
“ What do you mean?! You promised me didn`t you?!”
The devilish child stood before the entrance of the basement chamber and gestured with his hands to leave this place,
“ Didn`t I told that I want to greet your family. Won`t you introduce them to me?”
Timothy walked ahead of them and his worries piled up to an unbearable mountain, he couln`t protect his family in anyway from him and realized his powerlessness.
Before he entered the main floor again he dominated Timothys whole body through his telekinetic force, leaving only his perception organs and brain intact so that he can still witness everything that will happen from now on and he whispered unbeknown to the rest,
“ Well I said I wouldn`t lay a hand on your family, but your hands will be sufficient to tie up the loose ends, I think.”
The female slave who greeted them, informed them,
“ Master, dear guests please follow me to the living room, the lady and her son wanted to personally thank you.....arg..ma...ster...nnngh..wha....urghngt....”
Aluzar forced Timothys body to strangle the female slave and slowly but steadily the life in her eyes began to dim out of existence. Narlenia tried to interferre but Aluzar stopped her with a command what angered her because she had to watch the fat man murder an innocent slave.
The boy smiled at the scene and the helpless expression on the ugly face of the slaver amused him very much, after the deed was done, he stored the corpse in his interspatial ring and let Timothys body head forward searching for the living room.
“ Why did you do something like that? She was just an innocent woman you despicable asshole, even if she was just a slave, you don`t have the right to murder her for no reason. Hey are you listening!?”
,shouted Narlenia at the chubby slaver and suspected that something was not right, but she couldn`t say anything because she didn`t understand what happened.
Timothy couldn`t speak the truth and was forced to remain silent and unwillingly open every door in search of his family, inwardly he hoped that they wouldn`t find them but that was just a delusion, nothing but himself trying to flee from reality and from the madness that awaited him.
Lofrinfel followed behind Aluzars back and couldn`t comprehend what happened or what was about to happen. She only knew that she had to serve him from now on in order to get stronger.
They arrived before a wooden double door decorated with mediocre carvings and as the fatso opened the door, unwantingly forced by the unknown power, two persons could be seen sitting on elegant soft padded chairs before a fireplace.
One was a woman, who looked young and decent but the sand of time left visible marks on her face, and the other person was a chubby male teenager, he had the same ugly looks passed down from his father.
They conversed while sitting before the fireplace and turned their sights to the group of people, who just entered the room.
“ Oh darling!!! I heard that you were attacked by some scoundrels by Mary, but to be so heavily injured!”
“ Father!! Who were those lowly bastards. We have to inform the city lord and have them punish for their vile acts!”
, the pair of mother and son screamed those words while they rushed to the plump Timothy.
His wife glanced at Aluzar and snorted arrogantly,
“ Hmph, I thank you for helping my dear husband, since you have my personal gratitude you can leave.”
The son added,
“ Yes, be grateful that you even received a reward and now leave our house....oh wait a moment. Father can I get that elven slave over there, you promised me that I get an elf for my birthday....argh”
In the smug smirk landed a punch from his father, remotely executed from Aluzar, and the chubby son stumbled to the ground. The fat boy was confused,
F-father...why?....huh...argh...ow...argh...”
His wife shrieked,
“ Whats gotten into you honey?!”
A barrage of punches came down on the ugly boy from his father,
“ Fwather...plweeaase....shhtop...ow...ngh...argh...”
Timothy mercylessly trashed his son against his will and his wife clung to him in the hope of stopping him but she was smacked away by a backhand placed to her cheek.
Narlenia tried to intervene again but was stopped by the cruel supreme pure blood vampire in his human disguise, who enjoyed watching this dramatic scenario unfolding before his eyes.
“ Why won`t you stop them with your strange powers ?!”
asked him the noisy high elf and the the bitter answer she received didn`t sit well with her.
The boy glanced at her with an evil smile,
“ Why would I help them, didn`t he bought you and intended to ravage you ? And after that hand you over to his son ? They build everything on the sufferings of other people. Well, I do that too but I do what I want because I have the knowledge and power to do so. If someone wants me dead they should try everything to achieve that and vice versa.
Do you understand now, foolish high elf? With enough power behind their back the cunning and the wise can do everthing as they please where ever they are.”
Narlenia bit her lips until she bled and covered the eyes of Lofrinfel with her slender hands.
His wife screamed in shock and tried desperately to help their son,
“ Whats wrong with you honey. Stop !! Anymore and our son will die. You over there !! Stop standing around and help us already.”
Unconcerned by the wifes demands, Aluzar watched the drama continue unfolding but Narlenia closed her eyes and blocked Lofrinfels view. He concentrated his mind and shot a fireball from Timothys palm to his wife.
The burning flame ball hit her and she caught fire, but she managed to extinguished the fire by generating water through her magic.
The fat slave shop owner sprinted with his heavy body to her and grabbed with one hand his lightly burned wifes neck and with the other hand he smashed his fist into her face,
“ Honey...ow...sniff...please...sniff.....stop....”
Salty tears dripped down his face and he wanted to stop, but couldn`t control his body to do so, he fought against this strange force with all his might but he couldn`t win against it.
Timothy felt agony and despair, an immense pain surged in his heart while seeing himself beating up his own son to a near dead state and choking his wife while continuesly striking her with his bloody fist.
Aluzar grinned at the horrible scene, to him it was like a real life theater drama giving him an entertaining show and the one who wrote the script for this amusing play was none other than him.
Narlenia could only silently listen to the horrible sounds and screams, occasionally taken peaks at the scene what twisted her stomache upside down and she couldn`t comprehend why this is happening right now, she suspected the culprit to
be the boy but she could do nothing but to only close her eyes as the slaver repeatedly smashed on his own family.
Lofrinfel couldn`t see anything but she heard the horrible screams reveberating through out the house, she remembered the memories where her parents had suffered and died, she silently cried under the cover of Narlenias hands, she swore to herself to get stronger and one day kill her parents tormentors, this was her resolution she attained while reliving her cruel past triggered by the theater of despair.
*thud*
A near dead woman fell down on the floor with her blood sprinkled allover it, her face was black and blue and swollen beyond recognition. The teeth of her mouth lied scattered across the whole room, her nose was flattened and broken into tiny fragments, that slowly fell down from her face with pieces of flesh still stuck on it.
She barely was alive but sooner or later death would fall upon her, Timothys right foot positioned itself over her head. His face remained unchange but deep inside him sorrow, despair, pain, anger, hatred brewed madness in him like a wild storm, mixed into his insanity are his love for his family and the powerlessness and that wrecked his mind into chaos.
*knack*
With a crunching sound the head of his wife began to crack into fragments under the heavy force of her fat husband. He stampeded rapidily like a madman and under his shoes collected itself the slimey brain matter of his wife. Her head became a bloody gooey puddle and the brain mass was mostly stuck under Timothys feet.
His eyes showed an unbearable emotional scar and his mind drifted further into madness as he made his way to his son, moved by the devilish boy controlling him.
The fat teenage boy couldn`t move because he was in a delirium, he didn`t wanted it to be true and believed it was all a nightmare until he saw with his own eyes how his mothers head was crushed into a thick soup of blood and slimey mass by his father,
“...Nwo...twhat...wcan`t....wbe....twue....twhis....iws....awll....a....bwad.....dweam....mwothew....wfathew...”
The chubby father dragged the son over to the fireplace and plunged him, under Aluzars control, into the flames and a painful shriek resounded through the house,
“ Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.....wit huwt, wit`s howt wfathew stowp....aaaaaaaaH!!”
Several blisters appeared on his face and poped open, dripping sizzling fat on the fire, the teenage fatty furiously grabbed onto the foot that pressed on his neck to keep his head from bending forward away from leaving the burning hell. His eyes turned blind from being roasted, the hair ignited as if he was a matchstick and were gone in a flash. A smell of burned flesh filled the room, the screams subsided as his mouth charred to two crispy lips and he ceased struggling against his painful death.
*clap, clap, clap, clap, clap,*
The applauding came from the handsome youth,
“ What a splendid play you gave me, hahahahaha. I told you that I won`t lay a single finger on your family, but you did it yourself with a little help from me. I also said that I would show you true despair as a punishment didn`t I, filthy bug. Now the theatrical performance is over and the curtains are closing for you, I hope you have more luck in your next life.”
Timothy bowed courtesly by Aluzars will and began bending into bizzare postures.
*knack*,*crack*,*crunch*
After a while he looked like a yoga master doing obscure exercises and finally his head slowly twisted to his back, he wanted to scream and curse him but couldn`t even do that, he could only wait for this terrible nightmare to end.
The husband and father searched for the corpses of his beloved family but couldn`t see them in his vision, but only for a short second he could see them as his head completely twisted backwards and then with a *knack* his sight went black and he died.
The high elf angrily stared at the young boy and shouted,
“ So it was you!!! Why are you doing this to your fellow humans, don`t you have any morals and values?! It`s ridiculous such a young individual like you possess such a strange power and even an interspatial ring and wield it for this lowly purposes !!! You should be ashamed if yourself and aplogize to your parents in heaven and to the gods and goddesses that are watching over them.”
With the last sentence the calm and composed Aluzar finally snapped, he changed back to his true appearance, platin silver hair and glowing ruby red eyes.
He lifted the noisy high elf in the air with his telekinesis and morphed his teeth into evenly sized fangs and furiosly shouted,
“ You fucking high elf bitch, don`t you dare mention my parents ever again and your gods or whatever they are, are just manifestation of your stupid believes, someone like them can`t compare to the true one or higher beings and if you don`t know what happens with you after you have died, you should keep your fucking trash wisdom to yourself. You destroyed my good mood and I will give you a punishment that will accompany you until your death !!!”
He slammed her down on the floor and she knelt before him, the young looking supreme pure blood vampire grabbed her hair and pulled it towards her back exposing her neck and Narlenia screamed in shock and immense fear,
“ Y-you are a vampire??!! How can this be??!! Vampires can`t change their appearance even the high blood vampires can`t manage such feats !! In my 300 years of life I can`t believe it ?! Who are you....No! What are you!? You monster!! Abomination, stay away! What are you doing to me!!! No ....argh...I ...don`t...urghh....aaah....iiaaah...”
He bit down on her neck and sucked some of her blood, it tasted sweet and she was probably a virgin or high elven blood always tasted like this.
He injected the enzyme, that changed the body to a vampire regardless of wether someone is a virgin or not. That believe that only virgins turn to vampires was caused by supreme pure blood vampire because the blood of virgins mysteriously tasted sweet and delicious to them.
The Enzyme entered her body and the high elf could feel that her body was about to change and she convulsed on the ground while giving off an earpiercing shriek,
“ Iiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaahhhh...........”
Narlenias ashen grey eyes mutated to a pale red gleam and her corner teeth grew sharper and slightly longer, her skin turned from white to unhealthy pale white like porcelain.
The Enzyme he injected into her body triggers a mutation on a genetic scale, it restructures the cells after the closes image to a supreme pure blood vampire.
But ordinary humans could only reach up to a pure blood when bitten by a supreme pure blood. When lower pure blood vampire bites another human, they become lessers vampires.
Aluzars punishment was far from over he wanted to test the enzyme on her, it was also his first time injecting the enzyme.
He knew through the passed down knowledge from his ancestors that the noisy high elf couldn`t disobey him after she had transformed because the enzyme contained soul particles from him and will merge with her soul and bind her absolutely to his will until she dies.
It was anoher form of the enslavement collar but more effective since it reigned over everything she is as a being not restricting her with the magic circles.
The Pain that tormented her slowly subsided and she stood up, the bite mark was already healed in the mutation process,
“ YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!”
She attempted to punch him but the collar prevented her from it and the supreme pure blood vampire snorted,
“ Hmph, you didn`t learned your lesson. Very well, I will show you another form of punishment that awaits you. Your soul and body belongs to me now, understand that you little welp.”
His ruby red eyes glowed and she screamed in pain while holding her head,
“ Aaaaaah, what is happening to me.....why? Why can`t I remember her name? What did you do to me. I remember everything except my name. ”
Aluzar erased all traces of her name in her memories, he had a tight grasp on her soul and mind now and that was another one of the loopholes to overcome the invisible power protecting the soul.
She looked helpless and glanced at the platin silver haired boy and he coldy snickered,
“ Damn high elf, You don`t deserve a name yet. You were so full of yourself and now you look for help, like you demanded it from me back in the store? How pathetic ! You are no longer a normal high elf and thus I erased your former name fom your memories and you will be earning yourself a name from me as long as it takes. You will be called noisy high elf during the time until you deserve a name and consider yourself lucky because I could have wiped out your whole personality. ”
The noisy elven woman cried desperately and could only accept her new fate. Aluzar stored the three dead corpses away and commanded Lofrinfel and the noisy elf to search for valuable things that could be of use.
He plundered the kitchen from it`s spices and tablewares it had. The draconian and noisy elf duo found dresses, jewelry and some leftover gold coins.
Lofrinfel reluctantly asked him,
“ M-master are y-ou a vampire ? And why did you turn big sister elf into a vampire?”
The young draconian girl couldn`t keep up with what happened a while ago and only saw her new master transform into a terrifying yet breathtaking being, her deceased parents told her scary stories about wicked and evil vampires, who kidnapped little children to drink their blood.
Aluzar gently explained her the truth in her draconian language,
“ You see young Lofrinfel, I am an old being and I come from another world and the great creator of creators sended me to this world as a plague, well that was what he said but actually I can do everything I want. I don`t need you to understand it at the moment but someday you will. I am the last supreme pure blood vampire and big sister elf was really rude to me and mentioned my parents in her stupid speeches about morals, values and her gods and stuff, thus she went too far just a moment ago and I was angry at her, so I punished her by taking her name from her memories even if know her real name don`t tell her until she changed her meddlesome personality alright?! Oh, yeah I tell you one more thing: The gods won`t help you Lofrinfel. Where were they, when your family perished ?! Did they helped?! Did they send a miracle to save you? Power and knowledge is everything my child, so get stronger than everyone to protect the one you want to protect and kill who you want to kill and the world will be yours!”
Aluzar had convinced the young Lofrinfel. Her amber colored eyes showed determination and she furiosly nooded her head to indicate that she understood.
They left the house and got on the carriage cart, heading to an inn in the north section also known as the adventurers district.
The Streets leading to the adventurers district gradually became livlier as they came closer to it. The north sections was filled with inns, taverns and a few cheap brothels obviously constructed for travellers and roaming adventurers.
Under the deep hoods of their cloaks they headed to next nearby inn because the young child felt a huge mental fatigue from the repeated use of his mental powers.
The inn they entered was named“The Falling Leaf” and a friendly greeting came from the reception, it was a young man growing into an adult, “ Welcome dear patrons, a room for one costs 5 cooper a night, a big room for a group costs 10 cooper coins a night and the stable service costs extra 3 cooper coins a night.
The young man intensely looked at the cloaked high elf, they had all concealed themselves under their hoods because they didn`t want a commotion.
The newly transformed high elven pure blood vampire answered,
[i]“ Yes we like to have big room for a group including the stable service, our cart stands outside.
She paid with one silver coin in advance for further nights. The young man smiled and handed over a key to the cloaked elf,
[i]“ Here beautiful lady are those your siblings ? nevertheless could you please tell me your name, I can hear from your voice that you should be quite a beauty.”
The noisy female vampire elf pleaded with her eyes under her hood to the also hooded Aluzar and he only sighed,
“ Maamaaa I am sleepy and huungry. I waant to eeat and sleeep.”
The male receptionist showed a disappointed look and said,
“ I am sorry, I will send you three meals to your designated room as an apology for my rudeness. Your room is at the end of the way and it`s marked with a red colored 10 if you can`t read look for the color, thank you for your patronage.”
The visible group of three climbed the stairway whose light source consisted of dimly shining stones, they arrived before the farthest door from the stairs and opened it with the key they received.
It was a modest room with only two beds that fitted a total of four people, a desk with some kind of stone that should have probably served as a light source.
As the door closed behind them the noisy high elf vampire reluctantly asked because she feared that he would remove all of her memories, if she enraged him one more time, thus she shed her pride and dignity and knelt,
“ Ma-mas-master! Please I beg you tell me my name, I will do everything you desire. I didn`t completely understand the conversation between you and Lofrinfel, but I deciphered that you talked about me. Please I was already yours and now I absolutely belong to you ma-mas-master I deeply regret my rude behavior towards you, please reconsider and think of another punishment.”
The handsome vampire back to his human disguise twitched an eyebrow,
“ Noisy high elf you are still far to noisy, haven`t you learned your lesson!? I told you that you have to earn yourself a name from me and your gods or goddesses can`t help you with that, or can they?”
The noisy elven vampire pressed her forehead on the dirty ground,
“ I sincerely aplogize, p-please have mercy. I won`t be doing this again, but ma-mas-master allow me one question !”
Aluzar raised a brow,
“ Speak, what is it?!”
She humbly asked,
“ Ma-mas-master, I have never heard of a vampire that can transform into a human dusguise, even the high blood vampires are incapable of such abilities. Are you maybe the son of a pure blood emperor with a unique blood trait ?”
He felt a little offended because he was being compared to a lowly pure blood,
[i]“ No I am not, sooner or later you will find it out on your own because you body has changed, I am intersested on how far you have mutated, we will have to make a few tests in the oncoming days.”
*knock, knock, knock*
The good looking youth opened the door and received the tray with the food and paid one silver coin for further meals in the next weeks.
The elven vampire and Lofrinfel greedily devoured the soup and bread , they shared the portion their master gave them and he observed the newly transformed elf, he thought that it was strange because normally the pure bloods could only consume blood and vomitted when they ate human food.
The supreme pure blood vampire suspected that her elven race mutated her to a higher vampire form than the pure bloods on earth.
The things he wanted to research had piled up quite a bit, but he was in no hurry because he had enough time and more mysteries means less boredom.
He removed his cloak and the eight headed serpent revealed itself to the others, the high elven vampire stuttered,
“ Wha-what is this. That i-s a magical b-beast that s-should only exist in legends!!”
Lofrinfels reaction was totally the opposite,
“ Ooooooh wow, what a cute snake, can I touch it, can I? Wow she has eight heads how awesome! Master is she your pet?!”
Well different people, different reaction he thought. Tomorrow he would be going to the adventurers guild with the letter Harold gave him but now it`s time to rest and to sleep.