Just before I close the gate I toss through the backpack full of food supplies. Then I carefully sneak back out the same way I came in with no one the wiser. This way no one should notice they are missing until the morning, hopefully.
The guards will be in a world of trouble when the elves are found missing, but that's their problem. As soon as I am outside I head towards the noble quarter as quickly as I can without being spotted. The remaining thirteen elves are spread out amongst five different noble estates.
There are four in one, one has three, and the remaining three each have two. The problem now is that I can only open the gate two more times with my remaining mana. If I use too much mana breaking locks and traps I won't even be able to open two.
Breaking into estates will get a lot more complicated if I have freed slaves following me. However, if I don't get all of the elves tonight things will get a lot more complicated. The first estate I head for is the one with four elves, it is a huge estate with a lot of guards.
As I approach the estate's gate I shake my hand to summon the dagger out. Sneaking would take far too long and I don't want to waste the time, so I will kill my way in. I didn't have time to research the estates and find out who owns them, but I know Zoidya's estate isn't one of them.
One swipe with my dagger is enough to kill the two guards who were standing in front of the gate talking. After they die I shoulder charge the gate and smash through it, it isn't even enchanted. As I run towards the main house I kill any guard who comes close and at the same time I scan ahead with my mana.
Two of the elves are locked in a small room off the kitchen, the other two are in an upstairs room. It is probably a bedroom considering the size, it looks like I will be killing the owner of the estate. Instead of breaking down the front door I circle around the house and enter the kitchen.
There is a servant on standby in the kitchen who screams when I enter, but I ignore her. I head straight to the door to the side room, which is locked, so I rip the door off its hinges. Inside are the two elven women, they are chained up and covered in bruises.
The two are obviously terrified and traumatized, which is understandable. Even when they see that I am an elf, there expressions don't change, which is odd. However, for now I ignore that and free them from their chains, but as I do more guards charge in.
As the group of guards enter the kitchen I see a big, fat man behind them. As soon as I hear him yelling at the guards to keep me away from his girls my killing intent skyrockets. I cut through the guards like they are made of tofu and head straight for the fat man.
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When he sees the guards being cut down, he suddenly looks terrified and tries to run. However, I am not about to let him get away, not that he has a chance of out running me. When I catch him I don't use the dagger on him, that is too good for him.
Instead, I grab both of his shoulders and pick him up, then I start pulling. His screams as I slowly tear him in half can probably be heard throughout the estate. Strangely, despite how loud the screams are, I don't see any more guards coming at me.
However, I am not worried about the guards, I rush back to the two elven women. Even though I unchained them, they haven't dared to move out of the room. I quickly but gently pull them to their feet, healing them as I do, and tell them to follow me.
Luckily, they have become accustomed to obedience, so despite their fear they follow me. While in the current situation it is useful to me, it also makes me want to go on a killing spree. Unfortunately, all the way upstairs to the bedroom, I don't see a single guard to kill.
When I open the bedroom I find the other two elven girls, they are naked. They are chained to the bed and are in bad shape, they have been heavily abused. As I free them from their chains I also heal them, then I tell the other two to help them get dressed.
Then I leave them there because there is someone alive in the next room over. This room is even bigger and is very luxurious, but my attention is on the man sleeping in the bed. I have no idea how he managed to sleep through the alarms and the screaming.
However, I am fairly sure that this is the owner of this estate and also the one who abused those two girls. The other reason I came into this room is because there is a safe in one wall that my mana can't penetrate. The man somehow even sleeps through me ripping the safe out of the wall, disappointing.
To be honest, I really wanted him to wake up so he could experience just a fraction of the fear those girls felt. He is probably either drunk or high on drugs, either way I can't waste time on him. So I rip the door off the safe and throw it at him, which turns him into a blood smear.
Inside the safe I find over a dozen bags of gold and gems, which I take and put in my pouch. There are also stacks of documents, which I don't waste my time looking through. I just scatter them on the floor, whoever comes to investigate can check them.
I gather up the four elven women and lead them out of the estate, no one tries to stop us. However, these four women are more damaged than I was expecting them to be. I don't think they will be able to handle me leading them into another estate.
They need help, but I am no psychiatrist, the best I can do is get them back to the ship. Being with other elves and far away from the humans is the only thing I can think of. Even with that it will probably take years for them to even start healing.
Not knowing what else to do I open a gate and send them through to the ship. With the mess I made of the estate there is a good chance that no one will realize that it was about the elves. Meaning I could wait and go after the rest of the elves tomorrow night.
If the elves on the other estates are in the same kind of shape I will need to gate them out immediately. That means I need to be able to open four gates, right now I can only open one more. The only other option is to meditate for a few hours to recover my mana.
If I do it that way, it will be really close to dawn and the chances of being discovered will go up. Then I think of another option, but I don't know if it is even possible. If I could create a holding item that would allow living beings to go inside that would solve the problem.