Kyle woke up a few hours later. 

'Ahhh shit.' Kyle was upset. 

'I don't have time for this.' Kyle was in the same room he was in the last time this happened, but he could tell he was out for longer this time. It was already dark when he was going home, but he wasn't even in the 1st district. There was no reason slave traders should have been grabbing children in the 2nd district. 

"Aye, shit mayun, weez got dem kidz en der." Kyle could hear someone speaking an even worse version of the human language in the next room. 

"Waz dey here you?" It made sense though, the human empire was larger than the kingdom, and it encompassed more lands. Over 3,000 years different ways of speaking popped up. 

"Shiat mayun, it's don't madda." The men in the other room were going to start talking about something, and Kyle looked over to see that Beth was still asleep. 

Kyle and Beth both had their feet and hands bound. This was an upgrade from the last time where only his hands were. The kidnappers also used a stronger sleeping poison, so they were better funded than the last ones. 

"Oksey, it's reel asey." There were 3 men in the other room and they were going to be going over a plan of some sort. Kyle had really woken up at the best possible time. 

"Whut we do es, wez kill dat boy and pud em enfront dey shop rite, en den wez get dah big coins." 

"Dayum, dats gud." 

"Shati, you da brainz." 

The two congratulated the third for the great plan, and Kyle could understand the gist of if. They were going to kill him and leave him at the Valheart's shop, then demand coins from the Valhearts to get Beth back. It was a good plan, but they just happened to have chosen the 5th hero to kidnap. Luck was not on their side. 

Kyle looked over at Beth and could see her with her eyes wide open. She too understood what was happening and was very frightened. Beth quickly looked between the door and Kyle, not knowing what to stop at. In here head, Kyle was going to be killed soon so that her parents would pay more money for her. 

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Kyle did not have many options for what to do right now. They both had gags in their mouth so they could not make sound or cast spells, but this did not apply to Kyle. Beth did not know that Kyle could cast spells without chanting, so what he was going to do would come as a big surprise. 

Kyle used the tangerers to untie the bindings he had on and then took the gag from his mouth with his hands.

"Shhhh" Kyle said to Beth and put put his finger over his mouth to signal to her to be silent. Kyle then undid Beth's bindings and took the gag from her mouth too. 

Kyle's use of spells in this situation was very limited. He could not use area affect spells because Beth would be hurt too, and if he went up to the door the kidnappers would know something was wrong. The reason magic was not all powerful in combat was because of two things, long chant times and the inability to aim area of affect spells. 

Kyle cast [Silence] on himself and went to the door. He really wished [Invisible] was a status spell he could cast, but it was impossible. Kyle crouched beneath the window in the door and prepared to act quickly. Lightning magic would not work because it would be attracted to the metal door, and fire magic would obstruct his vision too much. Kyle was going to go with Ice magic. 

'[Frost]' Kyle popped up from under the window and silently shot his spell into the next room. He used a large amount of power, and even though it was not as powerful as [Zero], Kyle was certain it took out the men in the other room. Kyle then removed the Silence status.

"Beth, come on!" Kyle waved to Beth as he used a tangerer to open the door. 

"Right." Beth was still scared and did not understand what Kyle did, but she followed him. 

It was a scary event for her, but now she just needed to escape this dungeon with Kyle.