It happened so fast, after the explosions, I could hear the screams from my cage, it looked like someone attacked this caravan, I sat silently and watched the all things happening at once. I could hear some horses and a chirping of large bugs from the front of the caravan, the bodyguard running all over the place, then I saw some kind of people with armor, swords, and lances. Suddenly, some cards flew near the cage, it hit the bodyguards and killed them instantly.
“Hurry up heal him!” The lanky slaver told Avira.
Avira crouched near the burly slaver, she held the neck, but the blood still spluttered all over her hands, she mumbled some words and the blue light went into the wound, yet the wound only closed partially.
“It's too bi-. I couldn't heal him, master... my skills can't help him” She bowed her head, frightened her master would hit her again
The Lanky slaver panicked, and he approached his brother. “Lerein, it's no good-” he held the burly slaver, his eyes darted all over him. The burly slaver tried to speak, but his jugular veins and part of his neck throbbed a lot, making it impossible to speak. Lerein tried to grab something from his belt, he took a small vial from there and gave the vial to the lanky slaver.
“You'll die Lerry, you know what will happen before you die-” he tried to hold the tear from his eyes. The burly slaver nodded, and his hand grabbed his brother's arm. The lanky slaver then poured the vial into the open wound carefully and put the rest of its content into his brother's mouth.
lerein closed his eyes for the last time, all of his power left his body, and his hand dropped to the ground.
His brother, the lanky slaver, stands up. He can see all of the adventurers encircling him, he grabs Avira by the neck and entwines her, then he puts his pointy mace by her head.
“Ma-master, what are you doi-”
“Stop there,” Lanky said coldly to the adventurers, he glanced at his dead brother's body, and looked at all the adventurers, “You'll regret this, Romians always get their revenge,”
Ysuf walks slowly, on his side there are the twin lancer, Odard, and Idard, they already killed all the bodyguards at the front of the caravan, he looks at the other group and feels relieved, everyone seems fine. He looked at Maripan and Mira, giving them signs.
“Revenge? You treat humans as livestock, I think we are on the right here,” Ysuf told the slaver while pointing at the cages.
“Let go of her, we'll not kill you.. yet,” told Compe while he looked at the boy inside the cage.
“And be your guide to the black market? I'll be happy to be dead than show you where is it, they'll find me and torture everyone I ever know,” Lanky spitted at the ground
Maripan starts moving his hand to his quiver-
“Don't be stupid, tell your archer to throw his bow, or I'll kill her now,” he looked at Maripan and glanced at Mira too.
“Also, I'll know when your magus starts chanting her spell ” Lanky already sees through their movement, typical adventurer moves.
“And now what? You'll run away from us?” Ysuf asks the slaver.
The tense atmosphere suddenly disappeared, and some sounds coming from Lerrein’s corpse erupted.
The Burly’s dead body started to twitch, and everyone was weirded out for a second, “there's probably Nekries here,” Mira warned everyone, she started looking at her surroundings, but she couldn't sense any mana or mages in hiding.
then the corpse started to spasm, and a guttural scream could be heard from its mouth, the head flesh was ripped and disfigured, the body started to bulge at a fast rate, Lerrein's corpse thrashed, his muscles tensed and flexed beyond what normal human could possibly do.
His eyes opened while staggered to stand, his height seemed to grow a two hundred and fifty-something centimeters, and his fat was gone and replaced with uneven bulging muscles. His disproportionate hands and legs seem finished to stop growing.
“What is tha-” Odord and Idard gasped
“That doesn't look like a ghoul or draugr,” Mira started to charge her staff with mana.
“Vice-captain, permission to attack?” Maripan nocked his arrow
The Lanky slaver backs away silently with Avira, he knows what happened to his brother, and he awaits for the time to skip out from the adventurers.
Suddenly the hulking corpse howled at the sky. His eyes scanned his surroundings and stopped his vision at the boy in the cage. His delirious face contorted and he suddenly charged the cage like a bull, destroying the cage and turning the Carriage side way.
The black-haired boy inside the cage was thrown to the outside, the chain that was embedded to the inside of the cage broke, and the boy sprawled on the dirt not moving.
“Did that boy just die?” Jorn grimaced
“Kill that thing! Don't let it rampage!” Ysuf shouted, then Jorn clanked his shield with his sword, and he used [Taunt] on the hulking corpse. Odord and Idard start dashing to the side of Jorn, they prepare their defense positions and point their lances at the monster.
Maripan started to shoot the Monster with his bow, but it didn't take any effect whatsoever on the hulking corpse.
“I'll get the boy, cover me-” Compe dashes and tried to retrieve the boy, the Monster growled at the adventurers and started to body-slam Jorn’s shield, his feet skidding under him, while Odord and Idard lances pierced the Monster’s body and arm.
“Mira, can you slow him?” Ysuf asked her while he prepared to attack the monster too.
Ysuf holds his sword and starts chanting a spell
[Frostblade]
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Ysuf brandished his sword, a bluish tint hue shining from the blade, and a vaporized air envelope his sword. He ran into the back of Jorn and jumped over him.
The abomination tried to punch Ysuf in mid-air, but Ysuf’s shield redirected the punch while turning his body on air, his sword slashed the Monster's face, a deep flush of blood spurts out from the wound, and instantly froze in the air.
[Sand control]
Mira moved some sand under her, she directed the sand into the monster, and the sand whirled into the monster’s legs, arms, and head. She moved her hand in choking motions, all the sand started constricting the monster a bit, yet the hulking corpse still trashing all around him.
Compe picked up the kid and checked his condition. the boy bruises all over his body, and then Compe starts to check the boy’s heartbeat, he smiles when there's still a strong beat inside the boy's chest.
He grabbed the chain on the boy's neck, he tried to pry open the chain with his rapier, yet it didn't bulge. He checked the mana conduit on the chain, then he found the spell construct and formations, then he force-break it. a blackish light evaporated from the chain, and the chain clicked and opened. It was a mana-siphoning tool, he wondered how long has been the boy chained with this stuff.
He grabbed his waterskin on his belt, and poured a splash of water on the boy’s face,
“You up kid?” Asked Compe, his friends still battling the abomination, he looked at the slaver that was running away, in tow with his slave.
“Maripan, the bastard running away, fetch him will you?” Told Compe.
“Fine, it's not like I could help the others with that brute,” Maripan grumbled, he put his bow on his back, started running to the horse, and cast [Silent Hooves] to his horse, and then he started hunting the slaver.
“Hold him down for a second!” Ysuf told everyone who battles the Abomination. Jorn's axe is embedded into the monster's neck, The monster howled and succeedingly punches one of the lancers, Idard flies quite far from the group, there's a dent in his chest armor.
The sand still held down the monster from moving too fast, and then Mira started chanting her sand spell again,[Sand Spike] appeared under the Abomination, and pierced his body and his one free hand.
“Back up!” Ysuf roared, all of his teammates started to stay clear of the monster, and then he ignited his linked skills
[Water stance] [Giant's swing] [hundreds slash]
(Waves of frost behemoth)
Ysuf's blade strikes the Abomination’s head, and a hundred phantom blades trail behind him, piercing all over the monster's body, the swords freeze him in an instant, then break into million chunks of ice.
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“I have a gift for you, for your treacherous path in the future.”
Izir’s hair sways by the wind, his little frame feels cold and fresh, and suddenly his tattoos light up, he looks up at the bright silhouette in front of him, and he feels afraid and confused.
“I didn't ask for this, I just want to go home-”
“You'll find your home, maybe in another form or the real one. I am sorry that this is happening to you, but you are here for a reason. Try to trust yourself, you have a good heart Izir, even with all the shor-”
The dream ends there.
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It hurts, it feels like all over my body has been crushed by a truck, what is a truck? Nevermind. I opened my eyes and I saw a smiling man looking right at my face, my face felt wet, did he just pour water all over my face? I touched my neck, and a sense of relief breezed through me, no more chain locked my freedom anymore.
Right, before I fainted, I am sure there was a fucking hairless Bigfoot trying to demolish my existence, it's seems like these brave knights and warriors, had already slain him. I cried a bit, there's this feeling inside my chest, like a calm after the storm. When I tried to stand but almost fell again, the smiling guy helped me to stand up, and I heard a clinking sound near my feet.
On the ground, I saw the chains that used to tie my neck, I could sense a frightening feeling from it, maybe it was just my imagination, I tried to pick it up then one of my tattoos behind the neck lightened up, I feel a soft cold burn traveling from the tattoo into my eyes.
Chains of Mana Depravity (dissembled formation)
B+ tier
Forged from a cast, made from used Irons and mixed with Onyx dust, enchanted to siphon mana from the target.
Effects:
Mana drain : 66 mana/sec
[Confusion] (low)
[Submission] (medium)
[Other information locked]
What the friggity fuck, a greyish window appeared with an English text in my vision, it seems like there was a piece of information about the chain that I am holding. my head throbbed intensely, something wanted to resurface but it's gone instantly. I put the chain on my hand, I guess I could use it later.
The smiling man suddenly checked all over my body, and he kept looking at my tattoos, his face looked worried, and then he sighed.
The guy takes something from his belt, he tries to give me water from his waterskin, I hold the waterskin for a while, afraid that the information window will pop out again, fortunately, it doesn't show up again. I opened the plug and then tried to drink it. the water felt fresh and clean, I tried to drink a lot, but I coughed. He wiped my mouth with a handkerchief and tried to communicate something to me, I couldn't understand the language, but one thing I could convey to him was the feeling of gratefulness by smiling at him.
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“Are you deaf or a mute boy?” Compe asked the boy, then he was aware by his own questioning.
“Mira is right, I am stupid.. ”
Compe feels happy to help the boy. at first, he seems worried, by the bruises and blemishes. Also, the kid has a lot of drawings all over him, and one of the drawings lights up for a moment. He’s afraid that the kid is still on some kind of curse or magical stamp that is usually on a slave.
He walks with the kid to gather with his guildmates by holding his hand.
“Odord, check your brother. Jorn and Mira, check the people on the cages,” Ysuf crouched near a pile of the defeated abomination, he picked apart the frozen chunks of the monster’s body.
Ysuf then glances at Compe and the boy, “ You good? Congratulations on your new child, heh”
“Shut up, I am fine and he's fine too for your information. this child is a bit weird, unfortunately, he can't speak”
“He's a mute? Or didn't understand us? He looks foreign, maybe he can't speak our language,” Ysuf still inspecting the frozen chunks, picked up the big one and put it in his pouch.
“Huh, you're probably right” he tapped the boy's shoulder then squats to try to speak with the boy.
“Compe, Ysuf..” Compe pointed at himself, then he pointed at Ysuf, then he pointed at the boy “Your name?” He repeated the gesture a few times.
The boy looks intently, then he speaks while pointing at himself,
“Izir”
Then, Compe smiled.