Back in the mine under Mount Galfrei. Rya was ordered to wait in a room with Dietrich watching over her.

'Great, I'm stuck in a room with this fucking guy.' Rya thought.

Dietrich was sitting there reveling in the fact that he was out of the dog house after failing to keep his client alive. After sitting there for a half hour he wanted to poke fun at Rya's misfortune.

"Haha. Oh, how you save my ass, little miss slave. The only thing that would make things better is if I could have a little fun with you. You're lucky Jeremiah doesn't want you to be a sex slave." Dietrich said with a smirk on his face.

Rya growled at the man.

'God I want to see my friends come in here and destroy you.' Rya thought as she tried to calm herself down.

"Oh? I know that look. Haha! You are imagining your friends coming in here and killing me in all sorts of ways, aren't you?" Dietrich said with a laugh.

Rya glared at the man.

He laughed some more.

Rya sighed and turned around. 'Dammit! The only way I'm allowed to hurt this guy is for him to get handsy with me. Shit, how I wish he would come over here and try. Tch! Makes me sick to my stomach.'

"Dreaming about your prince coming in to behead me? Or that old fart trying to smash his shield into my face breaking my nose? Haha. Maybe you're hoping that kid would shoot me with one of his arrows? Haha! God is fun seeing you pissed off like this." Dietrich said with a smirk on his face.

Rya didn't move or respond.

He continued, "Oh yeah, maybe you want that mutt of yours to use~" Dietrich stops himself as a thought occurs to him.

"Where did you find that mutt anyway?" Dietrich asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Rya remained silent.

For some reason, Dietrich recalled the time when he along with Marcus went through the goblin nest and saw that sorry state of a wolf-kin.

'No, it can be. That mutt couldn't have been the one from the goblin nest! She was impregnated! Unless?' Dietrich thought to himself as he walked closer to Rya studying her.

She was staring at the wall and not saying anything.

'She's a healer!' he realized. 'That's the only way the worthless prince survived the dungeon! She healed him! And she's powerful enough to save the mutt! Fuck!'

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Dietrich felt shocked by his own revelation. He thought back to the day they were in the goblin nest and he saw the wolf-kin, and then the cave troll that should have been impossible to defeat.

"D-Did you save the wolf-kin?" Dietrich whispered as he got close to Rya.

She slowly turned to face Dietrich. Rya kept a calm demeanor but her eyes showed surprise for a brief moment.

'Shit! He knows.' Rya thought.

Dietrich picked up on the fact that Rya was surprised.

'FUCK! FUCK! I should have known! Gods Dammit! If I knew, I could have been emperor of the entire continent of Agon! How am I going to grab the slaver tool from Jeremiah? That asshole won't give it to me! And no way Rudolf is going to let me near him! FUCK! This sucks! Now I need to steal it. I have time. I just need a opening. Damn, it all to hell!'

Rya could see the conflict going on in Dietrich's mind.

'He's not going to tell Jeremiah that I'm a healer? Does he want me all to himself? Th-This could work out in my favor. I hope he's stupid enough to try and steal that damn slave device away from Jeremiah.' Rya thought.

As they stood there lost in their own thoughts footsteps could be heard coming towards the door.

*Knock! Knock! Knock!*

Dietrich was brought out of his thoughts as he heard the knock on the door.

"WHAT!?" Dietrich shouted in annoyance.

"Rudolf wants the slave ready. We lost one of our squads and he's worried that someone is on to us." The voice said as a Merc opened the door to the makeshift holding room.

'Dammit! I have less time than I thought!' Dietrich thought.

Dietrich quickly grabbed Rya by the arm.

"Alright. Quit lounging around, slave. It's time to earn you paid."

'Dammit! He's touching me but I can't attack him!' Rya was disappointed that Dietrich wasn't sexually assaulting her. It was the only way to have free will from the slave collar to defend herself.

Dietrich pulled Rya with him and stormed out of the holding cell.

"You seem annoyed?" Rya mocked as she followed behind Dietrich.

"Shut your fucking mouth! I need to think!"

"Fine, just don't think too loudly. Someone might hear you." Said Rya while she had a huge grin on her face as she walked next to Dietrich.

'I need this dude to do something really stupid if I want to get out of this place.'

Dietrich ignored her as they walked to a different room where Rudolf, Jeremiah, and his lieutenants were.

***

When Rya and Dietrich entered the room. Dietrich stared at the slaver tool in Jeremiah's left hand.

"Don't push your luck, Dietrich. You've done well to help us catch her but she's not for fucking. Do I make myself clear?" Jeremiah said with a stern tone.

"Crystal, Sir," Dietrich answered back.

Jeremiah turned his attention to Rya and smiled. "Hello, slave. Welcome to the party."

"Enough playing around! Dan and his men have gone missing. They haven't returned since they went on patrol two hours ago." Rudolf said with concern.

"So the scouts didn't find anything?" Jeremiah asked.

"My best scout was killed during the test! Don't act dumb with me!" Rudolf vented his frustration at Jeremiah.

"She was too fast for me to~" Jeremiah was interrupted.

"Shut up! We don't have a clue on who took out our men. Hell, it might be a monster for all we know." Rudolf said as he crossed his arms and looked at Jeremiah.

"So you wish for the men to prepare for war?" One of the other lieutenants asked.

"We have no choice but to assume that they have been attacked by the prince's men. So we must take precautions. Prepare the men. I want to be ready in case these are the prince's army that did this. If so then we will crush them like ants. I won't lose to some punk!" Rudolf yelled as he stood up tall.

"We'll get the men together commander. The sun should be rising soon. We can start the march to war in the morning."

With that Jeremiah started walking towards the door.

"Come slave! We got work to do'' Jeremiah ordered and Rya followed him out of the room.

***