Jericho

I was sent up onto the stage in order to be displayed to all of the potential buyers. There were a variety of races being displayed: dwarves, elves, humans, many different kinds of beast men, and all sorts of monsters that were in cages.

The captured slaves were shown in front of everyone naked and was humiliated in front of everyone. Female elves were all very beautiful and they fetched high prices on the market because of all the lascivious men who ravished their bodies while they could do nothing.

Dwarves were bought for their skill in smithing and their strength. The female beast men were primarily also used as sex slaves also like the female elves.

Usually the male slaves were all bought for harsh manual labor in which they usually die in about 10 years because of the cruel way they are treated.

I was bought by a thin man with a mustache. Based on his clothing he looked like some sort of noble. I had no clothing on and it was embarrassing but I didn't make any facial expressions. My new master put a drop of his blood onto my slave collar and I now became his new slave. First he began inspecting my body. What I didn't expect was when he told me to bend over he inserted his finger into my anus. I cried out in surprise and he simply laughed and stated that I was healthy. He gave the slaver coins and we left the slave market.

Monsters like me, I found out were usually bought for entertainment. We monsters are put into a ring and have to fight to the death. My master bought me for 50 gold coins which was quite cheap compared to the female elves and beast men but he only bought me because I was a rare type of ghoul.

My master led me inside  a large building and we were led downstairs to a large underground room that could easily fit in over a thousand people. There was loud cheering and betting going on in this room and it was filled with the stench of sweat and tobacco.

My master dragged me over to another man. They exchanged some pleasantry and I was soon sent off to another room where it was filled with many magical beasts and slaves. The stench of waste hit me like a hammer. I gagged at the smell. It was much worse than my two zombies.

I was sent over to a section where all the monsters were and they simply chained me next to a wall and I just sat there.

I was in that room for over 3 days. A man would come in twice a day and feed us some type of gruel that tasted horrible but we were all starving and devoured the food without complaint.

Because I was with the monsters they could obviously not communicate with me, so I had no one to talk to and was quite lonely. But I knew better than to underestimate these monsters because who knew when I might have to fight them in the ring so I studied the ones close to me very carefully. I remember reading from the qi cultivation book that monsters also have ranks up to saint rank and that they are very dangerous and the higher the rank they are the more intelligent they become. But after analyzing them I figured none of them were higher than the 5th rank which made me a bit more relieved but then I realized that they could all still kill me.

I attempted to cultivate my qi but because of the slave collar I could not do anything. On the 5th day of my captivity I was dragged out and brought into the ring where people were cheering for my death. I was very nervous and anxiously waited for my opponent to enter.

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What came into the ring was a giant chicken that was the size of a horse. I thought that since it was a chicken I had nothing to worry about. But when one slaver took off the collar that also prevented it from opening its mouth it roared like a ferocious beast and I could see rows of sharp teeth that could easily tear me to shreds.

We were both restricted in our boxes and could not leave. Men outside of the ring were placing their bets on who would win.

Suddenly while I was distracted a bell rung and the doors in our boxes that were containing us were opened and the giant chicken rushed towards me.

I dove out of the way as it tried to peck me. It's speed was ridiculous. It was at least a 2nd rank monster and I could barely dodge its attack. I opened up my status and quickly put in all of my stat points into agility. Luckily I made it in time because I was able to dodge easier than before.

For about 5 minutes it was basically a game of cat and mouse where I was constantly trying not to get killed by the horrifying chicken. But eventually I made a mistake and I fell to the ground. The annoyed chicken saw its chance and brought down its talons straight down to my head. I don't know if it was luck or whatever but it missed my neck by barely a centimeter and a crack formed on my collar.

Suddenly I was able to feel my qi again and I was able to jump up and unleashed a torrent of shock wave fists to the chickens head. The chickens head was badly deformed and I was covered in blood. All of the onlookers looked at me in shock and I saw that I had leveled up. The few people that bet on me were rejoicing and I saw my master, the person who bought me was very happy, while the majority of the crowd looked angry.

I remember from the book that ranked monsters have cores which can increase qi cultivation and mana so I cut open its body and eventually reached its heart where the core was. I also ate some of its flesh which wasn't that bad.

Eventually some of the guards had to come in and take me back by force. I couldn't do anything to resist because they were at least 6th level warriors and I would probably have been killed. They didn't take the 2nd ranked core that I took from the dead chicken and I was led to a room where they told me to wash myself.

After I was fully cleaned I was forced to put on a new slave collar because the other one broke, but this one was different because it allowed me to use qi. It seems like my master didn't expect me to be able to use it and so he contacted some people in this business to get me the collar that humans use.

I wondered how much money I earned my master but then began to cultivate my qi. I knew that I needed to get stronger in order to have a better chance of survival. I quickly refined the core of the chicken and it took mean entire day to finish. By the time I was done I was only at the mid level stage of the 1st rank.

I sighed and knew that it was going to take a long time before I could go into the 2nd rank. 1 week has passed since my first battle and I was still in the room where all the monsters were but each day I steadily cultivated my qi. I was called upon to battle again in the ring after one week of rest. I wondered who I would be facing this time.

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