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(Samantha's perspective)
Almost two weeks had passed since I arrived at this place, I thought it was some kind of prison or laboratory at the beginning. But it turned out to be a large camp that is dedicated to rescuing slaves who are in the hands of magicians.
And they do not discriminate against anyone, they help both humans who belong to this world and those who belong to ours. They help them all and then put them all to work together for the group.
I don't really know if the Speaker turned out to be a good person or if he just uses them all, I certainly also feel in a great debt to him for saving me, I have noticed that everyone here feels that way.
And based on that debt that we feel, he takes advantage of us and uses us, although speaking in the clear good sense, he does not treat anyone badly, he does not hit anyone, he always resolves everything with dialogue. But he does not leave anyone without doing anything, everyone has to do something and contribute something.
I'm not used to someone being as direct with things as him, although if I tried to complain I simply couldn't, the reason is that he hasn't done anything wrong. I was certainly going to feel like a horrible person if I didn't pay the debt I owed him.
I noticed that he doesn't force anyone to do something they don't like, it always looks at what the person's potential is regardless of what race they are, that is why there are humans mixed together. I even found different races from our world, I don't know how they ended up here but it is something surprising. In terms of communication... Well, they have some wizard bracelets to be able to communicate with them, although not everyone has a bracelet, only some.
I would say that the only bad thing about all this is that my potential is combat, and because of that they forced me to cut my hair, they say that my hair in combat would only be a hindrance or my hair could be pulled in a combat because it was long... it's not like they were wrong... but I really miss my hair, I was already used to fighting with it...
Ah... I wonder how Robert is doing.... Since that day I don't know anything about him...
Unknown: Hey Samantha.
Mmm... But he's a great man, he'll be fine...
Unknown: Hey Samantha!
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Unknown: Could you stop being lost in your thoughts? I'm hungry so we need to finish this exploration quickly.
Samantha: If you controlled your hunger a little, food would last longer Saga...
Saga was a girl from the werewolf race, apparently due to certain circumstances she ended up here in this world.
Unknown 2: Don't waste your words and efforts on that dog Sam.
And the other girl was Alba, apparently she belongs to a breed of feline, although I don't know the name.
Saga: For your information I am of the wolf race! Not dogs!
Alba: Yes yes... whatever you say dog...
Saga lunged at Saga, and they began to struggle on the floor.
Saga: I'll rip off your ears!
Alba: You're too loud.
It had been a week since I was assigned to this exploration group, or well I would say since it was formed, apparently the Speaker wanted an exploration group quite skilled at finding refugees or slaves in need, so he formed a group and joined us. With the capabilities of each member of this group, we certainly have a series of skills in finding people, lineage and race are very well reflected in this group.
Saga is very good at tracking smells and stuff like that.
Alba was more skilled at following trails and being more stealthy.
And I... well I have experience in these forests among other things, apart from that, of the three I am the one with the most experience in combat apparently, although each of them has things that I don't.
Anyway, we were assigned to find a group that had gotten lost in these forests, apparently they went out in search of supplies and had not returned in days, we did not have any news about them until yesterday, someone from that group managed to send a message emergency, apparently they had been ambushed, but it did not give more information, the handwriting was very bad and it was cut off in the middle of the message.
The messages take some time to arrive as they use spirits for communication, which are sealed in a scroll.
We have his latest location so we'll start looking around.
Samantha: Okay, enough rest, we have to continue.
Saga: But you were the one who was resting!
Alba: ...Get off Saga, you weigh a lot...
Alba pushed Saga off her, while Saga complained about having fallen on her own butt, Alba began to speak.
Alba: By the way Sam, how's your hand going? Have you already fully adapted?
Samantha looked at her hand.
Now I had a hand that had been made for me at camp, apparently they had a team of quite skilled designers or scientists there, the truth is I don't know what those people are called, the Speaker calls this thing a magical robotic hand or something like that, the I really don't have much knowledge of that, the technology of this world is something fascinating, although I don't know how The Speaker and his team had managed to mix things from our world with Robert's so that the magic could flow through the robotic hand.
I'm still having a bit of trouble adjusting to the sensitivity as it's strange to feel my own mana flow like I've never lost my hand, but it's actually quite useful among other things, although I don't know how they made it look like a normal hand with skin and all, sometimes that camp is scary in several ways.
From what I see it is as if they had created skin made of magic on the robotic hand and magic flows through the hand, or well at least that's how I see it and understand it, I don't know much about these things.
After taking our weapons and supplies, we began to advance again through these large forests, I don't know if these forests were like this before, but I can feel a certain magic in the trees. I guess when magic invaded this world it really affected it a lot.
We advanced for a few hours until Alba gave the signal to stop.
Alba: Stop, wait a moment.
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At first glance I didn't see anything.
Alba: There are traces that they moved something heavy here recently, they tried to erase the trace but it is still noticeable, I would say it was a few hours ago.
I bent down to look at the marks.
Samantha: Although it's strange, the emergency message took a day to arrive, they had plenty of time to kidnap the group and take them away if that were the case.
Alba: You must not forget that they are a search group, no matter how much they try to capture them, it was not going to be easy, they are well armed, It would not be unusual for the battle to last a day or several hours. In the end their objective must have been stand by for reinforcements in case something got out of hand.
Alba is quite perceptive, that surprises me a lot, I wouldn't come to a conclusion as quickly as she does.
Samantha: You really are amazing Alba.
Alba smiled when I said that with admiration.
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Alba: Our senses are different, even that dog over there is capable of doing things that I can't.
Saga: I heard you, I already told you I'm not a dog!
Alba: Yes yes, whatever you say, don't shout every time you are going to say something, you will alert the entire forest.
We began to follow the trail cautiously, there was a chance that we would encounter whatever it was that left the marks.
We walked for an hour very carefully following the trail of the marks, the sun was beginning to set, at one point Saga felt something
Saga: Stop.
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Saga: There's something nearby, and it smells really bad.
I didn't smell any smell, but if Saga felt it, he was probably a few kilometers ahead of us.
Samantha: Let's change our position, we'll go on top.
The two nodded and we quickly climbed the trees and began to move towards where Saga felt the smell.
After a while we arrived at a small clear space, we could see a kind of cart that was carrying a cell, there was a large group of magicians scattered throughout the area, inside that cell there were bodies, from the smell I would say that they were beginning to decompose.
But I noticed something, some were our companions, they were in the middle of all those bodies, I don't know if they were still alive but we had to do something.
It was quite a large group of magicians, I would say that it was quite incredible that they resisted a fight against such a large group for a day or several hours.
Alba: Sam, what do we do?
Our mission is to find the lost group, the problem is that they are in a situation in which we cannot abandon them, we cannot ask for reinforcements since they would take a day to arrive... Hmm... What a problem... This area is supposed to be free of magicians... How did this end like this.
Without further ado, I made a decision.
Samantha: Get ready both, we will have to take action, we can't leave them like this, it would be a big blow to our camp if we let them go.
Alba: It's a pretty big group, I don't think we're going to come out unscathed.
Saga: Yes, I can finally fight!
Samantha: We will use the surprise factor as best we can, we may finish quickly if we use it well, we will start with stealth, as soon as they discover us we will attack by surprise, both of you remember how we do it in training.
The two nodded.
For a moment, in the middle of this whole situation I thought about Robert. Will he be okay? He is a cunning man, he wouldn't fall so easily, he should have my sister... I hope he takes good care of her...
I didn't want to give the matter any more thought, but I was aware that at some point I was going to have to leave here, whether by hook or by crook, I shook my head to get rid of those thoughts. So I focused on the magicians, after a long time I can finally use a bow again, I took the bow from my back and prepared it.
How nostalgic.
I wait for Saga and Alba to advance, they were going to eliminate the magicians who were further away to reduce their number, I would cover them from here at the height, especially Saga, although she has quite incredible strength, she is not so stealthy...
And so we began our little rescue, Saga covered the mouths of his prey and cut their throats with his claws every time he managed to catch one off magicians. As soon as I realize that some wizard nearby is about to see her, I quickly eliminat those magicians with an arrow to the head.
Alba for her part didn't need much help, she was actually very good at this on her own.
In a few moves we had already eliminated half of their group, but then someone appeared, he was a magician, but... He was very big, if it weren't for the uniform I would say he was like an ogre with human skin... His muscles and his entire body was very large, he was twice the size of a magician.
Big Wizard: How long does it take you to receive a message from the commander, we need to start moving, these trashes are more useful when they are alive for experiments!
Wizard: E-Excuse me sir, for some reason, our devices do not have a very good signal in these forests.
Big Wizard: I've had enough, gather everyone, we will follow the original plan, we have to move forward!
Wizard: Y-yes sir.
The magician who followed the orders began to make a strange noise, the magicians began to gather... This is bad, they will realize that they are missing people.
I took a strange arrow-shaped device that they gave me at the camp, I began to imbue it with magic, after overloading it for a moment, I aimed at the center of the group with my bow. As soon as the majority were close enough, I shot the object with my bow.
The object stuck in the ground in the middle of everyone, before they reacted, I activated the object with my magic.
The magic inside the object exploded and paralyzed everyone nearby.
I took out my short sword, overloaded my body, and propelled myself from the tree towards the paralyzed mages.
I slit the throats of several wizards as I fell, as soon as I hit the ground, I took advantage of my overload and cut the necks of everyone who was still paralyzed at high speed.
The magicians who were not paralyzed began to shoot their spells at me, but while I was avoiding them Alba and Saga appeared, they began to destroy the magicians who had not noticed them.
While I was cutting the throat of the last paralyzed magician, I felt something strange, I turned to look at my back and out of the corner of my eye I saw a large fist coming towards me at great speed, it was already very close.
I tried to cover myself but I still received a lot of damage and was thrown into a tree.
I collided with the tree and was somewhat dazed.
As I came back to my senses a kick headed towards my head.
Before it hit me, Alba pushed me with a kick and she walked away.
The kick that was aimed at me broke the tree and it began to fall.
Big Wizard: Next time you won't be so lucky, girl!
The big wizard lifted a large rock and when he was about to throw it at me, his abdomen was pierced by claws.
It was Saga.
Big Mage: ¡Tsk! Damn!
The big magician let go of the rock and quickly took Saga's hand. She tried to let go but he had too much strength.
He took Saga's arm and pulled it out of her back where he had pierced it, despite having a hole in her abdomen he continued as if nothing had happened, then he grabbed her arm harder and slammed her to the ground.
When he was about to do it again, Alba jumped and dug her nails into his eyes.
The Wizard writhed in pain and let go of Saga, but with his instincts he grabbed Alba before she could jump back. He had her grabbed by her abdomen with one hand, even though he couldn't see anything, he grabbed her and slammed her against him the ground as hard as he could.
Alba screamed in pain.
My daze had already passed, so I took advantage of that moment, concentrated, gathered energy and closed my eyes.
And when the magician was about to hit Alba again, in less than a second I moved towards him and cut off his arm.
He began to lose a lot of blood and scream.
Saga took advantage of that moment and with a series of movements opened his neck and walked away.
Despite all his injuries he was still alive and moving... What the hell is that magician?
After a while his large body finally fell to the ground bathed in blood.
If we fought head-on without any surprise factor, it would most likely have been very difficult to beat one of these guys.
My back and part of my arms hurt too much even though I received the impact while covering myself.
Alba slowly got up.
Alba: Sam... You should be more careful next time... That hit against the ground that I received really hurt me...
Samantha: Sorry, I got a little careless.
Saga: It was a great fight, although my arm hurts a lot, that guy was really very strong!
After checking all our wounds, we checked the carriage, it smelled incredibly horrible.
I opened the gate and began to search body by body.
Alba: That's disgusting... Do you need to do that?
Samantha: I heard that big guy say that it's better to have slaves alive for experiments, he meant them as if they were still alive.
After checking the bodies of several of our companions, I discovered that they were still breathing, although there were several who had not managed to survive.
The other bodies were decomposing, which is why this carriage smelled so horrible.
Samantha: Well, let's take out those who are decomposing and treat our companions, we will take this carriage to transport them to the base.
While we were doing all that night came, we had to rest, so we moved the carriage away from that position in case something happened and we camped.
Saga: Ahhh this food is very good!
Samantha: Saga you must control your hunger, this is our last ration.
Saga: We would have more if you hadn't fed those unconscious ones!
Alba: They are our companions, little dog.
Saga: I already told you not to call me a dog!
Alba: I already told you not to scream.
The two began to argue again, when I saw this I sighed and looked at the Moon, it was very beautiful today, I hope we are seeing the same thing now Robert...