Now comes the hard part, the area the mansions are in has very few alleys and has more patrols. So our chances of being spotted are a lot higher, but there isn't much choice. I don't have the time to take each group of women to the docks one by one.

Luckily, we make it to the wall of the second mansion without a patrol spotting us. This mansion, just like the last one, has a small back gate guarded by two men. After I silence them I have the women move inside and hide in the bushes.

Then I start searching around the main house until I find a shed with four elven women inside. As I free them they verify that there are no other elves in the mansion so I lead them to the others. Then we leave using the back gate and start sneaking towards the third mansion.

Unfortunately, this time we get spotted by a patrol, but they only spot one of the girls. Thanks to that the four of them don't sound the alarm and just try to catch her. I manage to spot them before they reach her and I kill them before they can sound the alarm.

Then the elven women help me drag the bodies out of the street and hide them. We quickly continue on and make our way to the back of the third mansion. This time there are six guards on the gate, two outside and four inside.

It would seem that this noble, or whoever owns the place, is paranoid. Either that or they have something to hide, either way it makes things more difficult for me. I jump over the wall and go after the four on the inside of the gate first.

The sounds of the scuffle attracts the two outside guards, who open the gate and enter. They run straight into my sword and die just like the four inside did. Leaving the elves to hide the bodies I quickly move through the grounds looking for more elves.

However, the only slaves I find in the sheds are human, there is no sign of any elves. Yet when I was scouting, the scent of elves around this mansion was very strong, so I keep searching. When I can't find anything on the grounds I move to the main house and look for a door.

The first door I find is small, it looks like a servant's entrance, but it still has two guards. After killing them I quietly enter through the door and start looking around. The door leads into the servants area of the house and it ends up being really easy to find stairs down to the basement.

As I head down the stairs I smell something foul and I can sense a lot of people. When I reach the bottom of the stairs I find that I am not in a basement, it is a dungeon. The entire place is nothing but cells and there are around fifty elves locked in them.

There are both males and females, every single one of them shows signs of torture. Some are even showing signs of disease, the treatment they have received makes me want to kill people. For now, I unlock the cells and go through them one at a time, freeing and healing the elves.

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As I do I am able to see more of what has been done to them, and it enrages me. While I want to find whoever is responsible and kill them, it is more important to save the elves. However, that isn't going to be easy, moving around with over fifty people is going to be difficult.

Talking to the elves as I heal them I find out that there are no servants in the house. Just slaves and guards, the master and his son don't trust anyone else. They, along with the guards, are the ones who have abused and tortured the elves.

It makes me feel better that all the guards I killed weren't innocent, but I am not satisfied. Then I think of a better plan, if I kill everyone in the house then the elves can hide here for now. I can go to the other two mansions and bring those elves back here before heading to the docks.

That will not only reduce the danger but allow me to kill those that deserve to die. As soon as I think it through, it becomes the new plan, and I feel a lot better. Once all the elves are freed, healed, and cured of diseases, I leave them there for the time being.

Then I head upstairs and exit through the same door I used to enter the house. First I wander the grounds killing all the guards that are patrolling. Then I circle the house and kill the guards standing at the other doors and guarding the sheds.

That just leaves the guards at the front gate, but there are twenty of them and I am not sure I can kill them all quietly. So, instead, I head into the house and start checking all the rooms, floor by floor. On the second floor I find that most of the rooms have been converted into barracks.

Here I find over fifty guards sleeping, and now they will all sleep forever. They deserve more painful deaths, but I can't spare that much time, unfortunately. Finally I move to the third floor where the master's bedroom is, with four guards at the door.

I check the other rooms on the floor but they are all empty, so I deal with the guards. The fight makes a little noise, but no one inside seems to have noticed. When I open the door and enter, I find the master and his son torturing an elven woman.

"Dark Mark! Dark Mark!"

As soon as I speak the two of them turn to look at me and the older one starts screaming for his guards. Soon his screams change and his son joins him as the dark marks start having an effect. Ignoring the two of them I move to the elven woman to free and heal her.

Once she is healed, we stand there watching as the master and his son scream themselves to death. The elven woman has a small smile on her face the entire time and I don't blame her at all. Even without asking what has been done to her, I have a pretty good idea.

Once the father and son are dead we head down to the basement and gather the rest of the elves. Then I have them move to the first floor where they can be more comfortable. I also go and fetch those hiding in the grounds and bring them into the house.

Leaving them together, I head for the front gate and kill the last of the guards. Due to the noise I also end up having to kill two patrols of the city guard. I drag the bodies inside the walls, but there is no way for me to hide all the blood.

I will just have to hope that in the darkness no one notices it because I am running out of time. It won't take long before the three patrols of city guard are missed and the alarm is raised. So I quickly fly to the forth mansion and directly land inside the walls.