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After receiving my Adventurer card the clerk told me to always hold on to my card because it would protect me from any type of mind control. That explained why I couldn’t use my [Hypnosis] ability or [Brainwash] ability on anyone in the Adventure Guild building before. I asked the clerk why the card had the property to protect its bearers from mind control. The clerk replied and said that the Adventurer Guild placed a type of rune on every card that prevents the holder from being affected by mind control. It seems that there is a law that mind control abilities are forbidden and that the only race that would possess such abilities are the elven race and some monsters. But even with the elven race, such abilities are rare and if an elf did have the ability they wouldn't be able to properly use it because after all it is a forbidden ability.
I was curious about how the card worked. I wondered if it protected the holder from any mind control ability, does that mean that I wouldn’t be able to use my mind control abilities on others? I decided to investigate the theory that I had just made. I went outside of the Adventurer Guild building and into the street to look for a test subject. I looked around and saw a child who was physically and verbally abusing a child slave who was tied up in the alley. The slave who was wearing nothing but rags had bruises everywhere on the skin.
"Stupid slave! I told you do that always!"
The child kicked the slave in the face and all the slave could do is to cower in fear. I walked toward the alley where the two were. The boy stopped beating the tied up slave and decided to pick up a sturdy wooden stick that was leaning against the wall of the building. The child began smashing the foot of the slave and continued to yell. I decided to intervene and called out the child beating the slave.
"Hey kid, stop that."
"Who are you and why should I?"
"Your parents told you to treat your slaves like this?"
"Yes that is why I'm out here. Mother and Father told me to teach this slave a lesson for not bowing at them."
What the child had said shocked me. I can't believe such morals are taught on young children in this world, especially on something as insignificant as bowing. Is it just the humans that I've met so far or are all humans in this world so vile and cruel? I want to continue giving the benefit of the doubt of the humans on this world. But so far from my observation, the humans in this world are becoming a lost cause.
I decided to use my [Hypnosis] ability on the bratty child to test out my theory. I gave the child the command to squat and stay that way till I snap my finger. The child positioned himself and squatted down. The ability worked so that means that I could use my mind control ability while I was carrying my Adventurer card around. Since I am already immune to mind control abilities, the card is basically for validity for the Adventurer Guild. I bended down my knees and took a look at the slave child who was all bruised and bloody from the beating that the child gave him. The slave is a young child with short hair that looked like he's around five or seven years old. I decided to heal the slave. After a few minutes the bruise and the cuts on the child slave disappeared. I asked the slave for his name and I didn't get a reply. I noticed that the mouth of the slave was moving but no sounds were coming out.
I grabbed the slave's face and looked into the mouth. The slave's tongue was taken out. Seeing such thing enraged me. Instantly I asked the squatting child why this slave's tongue was taken out. The squatting child painfully answered.
"Because one night she would cry and scream while everyone at home slept and it bothered Mother and Father. The next day of that night, father cut the slave's tongue was cut out."
"She?"
The slave is a girl all this time I thought he was a she because of the hair. But that didn't matter, I was furious, using other human beings worse than livestock. I decided to ask the squatting child to take me to his parents. I followed the child into a big house that has a huge gate in the other side of the alley. We entered the house and inside were an overweight man and woman who were dressed in Victorian style clothing. The man and woman calls out their child.
"Thomas! who's this?"
I introduced myself using my human name. Though I never really had a name as an orc.
"Afternoon Ma'am and Sir, My name is Albert Van Wolfe."
"Van Wolfe? Are you related to the Mayor?"
"Yes he is my father."
"Ah the Mayor's son! Please sit down,"
The woman turns at the child slave and yells out an order in an aggressive tone.
"You! Get the wine and the fine glasses! Hurry!"
The obese woman turned her head back to me and asked me something in a calm sweet manner.
"To what do we owe this visit from the Mayor's son in our humble home?"
I looked around the insides of the house from where I was sitting.
"You have a lovely home."
"Why, thank you."
"I came here about purchasing your slave."
"Our slave? Oh may I ask why?"
I noticed that the woman was the only one speaking. The man remained silent, I guess she's wearing the pants in the house.
"I was just suddenly interested In the little one."
"Ahh I see that the Mayor's son has that kind of taste."
That kind of taste? I'm not quite sure what she means so i asked.
"I'm not quite sure what kind of taste you mean."
"Oh please its fine! It is quiet common around the city buying young female children for those kinds of things."
Is she telling me what I think she's saying?
"I could recommend you to the slaver that we bought her from. She's quiet fresh since we just bought her a fortnight ago. Since my husband here has a craving for them, they would usually take their lives after a month or so."
These people are despicable how they are able to talk about lives like this so leisurely. Also the fact that pedophilia is common is absurd. I decided to play along to try to get the information.
"Ahh haha. Please do tell me the name and location of the slaver."
"I shall have the little slave take you there and we shall give her to you as a gift. We could always buy a new one."
Then suddenly the husband complained.
"Aww but Honey bun i haven't used her yet."
"Fine! Go use her before we give her away."
The husband jumped up with glee and began to walk to the back to where the little slave girl was. Irritated I called out the husband and I used my [Hypnosis] Ability on him and then the wife. I started giving commands.
"First of all I want both of you to give me all the money and expensive things that you have and bring them to me."
The two of them got up and went upstairs. After a while they bought down a bunch of items and four small bags of dubloons. I asked if that was all that they had. The woman answered and said that they still have hundreds of thousands of dubloons in the City Bank. I told the the husband to go fetch those dubloons and bring them back. While I waited inside the house for the male to return, I commanded the woman and the child to squat until I told them to stand.
While the woman squatted down I asked her how their family gets their money. It seems that they inherited most of their wealth through a rich relative and the husband is the owner of one of the large Inns inside the City. After hearing about where their money came from, I didn't feel so guilty taking their money as a punishment. I decided to clutter the entire house and make it look like someone was looking for something, after a few hours the husband returned and with him are six big brown sacks. I checked inside each of the bags and it was filled with dubloons. I mixed in the other small bag that they gave me earlier. I told the husband to squat down with his family and I asked what the name of the slave girl was. They all said the name of the little slave girl in unison.
"Catherine"
I called out Catherine and told her to come with me. Without hesitation she came to my side. Before leaving I used my [Brainwash] ability on them and told them to forget Catherine's face and my face and forget that we ever existed. I told them to stand up and go out to a restaurant as a family. I left the house carrying the big brown sacks filled with dubloons and the Items that they brought out from the upstairs of their home. I entered the alley with Catherine and stood there for a while.
I looked at the other side of the alley in the street and there were people everywhere. I thought if I came out carrying all of these bags full of dubloons it will definitely give me too much unwanted attention. Then suddenly I saw someone familiar. It was the grunt looking man. I called out his name from the alley.
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“Jin Ule!”
The grunt looking man turned around and followed the sound of my voice. I continued to call his name until he arrived in the dark alley where I was standing. Jin walked towards me and asked who I was.
“I guess you wouldn’t recognize me.”
The grunt looking man walked closer and stared.
“Master?”
:”How did you recognize me?”
“No one else knows my true name and the way master said my name.”
“Oh is that so.”
I need you to stay here and watch this child and these bags for me.
“As you command Master.”
I left the items, large bags of dubloons and Catherine with Jin and headed for the Adventurer Guild. Once inside the building I walked straight to the desk and asked the clerk something. The clerk wasn't the female clerk from earlier. Now it's some male with a dull look on is face. I began inquiring him about some things.
“What is the age requirement for person to be able to join the Adventurer Guild?”
“There are no requirements as long the person fully understands what he or she is doing.”
“What are the rules for slaves joining the Guild?”
“For a slave to join the Adventurer Guild the owner has to have the official documentations and the slave has to pay the fee of 2000 dubloons. Once the slave becomes a member of the Adventurer Guild. He or she will be considered a free being.”
I was shocked how much the fees were to be free of being a slave. It’s like basically a wall for any slaves to become free. I wondered how long Jin had to work to save up the amount to free him of being a slave. I decided to ask another questions.
“Does the Adventurer Guild have its own bank?”
“Yes in fact we do. To store your currency you must have a proof of where and how you got them.”
“What if it’s a gift?”
“We still need proof of documentation of the gift and who the gift came from.”
“How do I document a gift that’s been given to me?”
The clerk gave out as sigh and took out a piece of paper then handed it to me.
[Currency Affidavit]
Signature of Receiver Signature of Donor
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After I took the paper from his hand and he gave more instructions in his monotone voice.
"Under the box Currency Affidavit write down the reasons of why you have received the money and the amount. Below will be your signature and the donor's."
"I'm sorry I'm new to all of this."
I smiled at the clerk and scratched my head. The clerk's face didn't change and continued to look dull.
"It's fine and understandable. Is that all that you came for today?"
"Yes. Thank you."
I took the paper and folded it in half. This legal stuff is pretty annoying. I guess I need to visit Daddy dearest to sign this thing. I went outside of the Adventurer Guild building and hurriedly went to the City Hall. There inside the Mayor's office, my so called father was still figuring out where his money that the bank reported to him went. I walked up to him and asked him if he could sign the paper. Without me using any of my abilities he signed the affidavit and I left the room before he even noticed.
I went back to the alley where Jin and Catherine was waiting. I called them out then I grabbed the bags full of dubloons. I didn't care if people noticed anymore. We all went straight to the Adventurer Guild.
I handed the dull faced clerk the paper of the document. The clerk looked at it and said something.
"It doesn't say the amount."
I gave him a bad reason.
"I don't know the amount; the old man just gave me the bags."
"That's fine, bring the bags here and pour its contents."
The monotone clerk pointed to where to pour the coins in. I grabbed the bags and poured the bags one by one in a container that went straight underground. The sound of the coins echoed the lobby and people turned their heads to where the location of the sound. After I poured all the coins in the container the monotone clerk asked for my Adventurer Card.
"Please hand me your Card."
I gave him my card and he swiped it on some kind of machine. After a while he gave me back my Adventurer Card.
"Thank you. Here's your card."
Name:Albert Van Wolfe
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Blood Type: X
Rank: F
Abilities: Unregistered
Credit: ₡649,000.000.000
Guild: Unwanted
Position: Leader
After that I decided to register Catherine in the Adventurer Guild. Luckily, I found her slave documentation in the items that her previous owners gave. I the little girl up so that she can donate a drop of her blood and sign the paper. The little girl signed the paper with a pretty hand writing. I surprised that she knew how to write being a slave and all. I handed my Adventurer card to the clerk so he can deduct the cost of registration of Catherine from my card. I also joined Catherine and Jin in my guild. Since Jin lost his Adventurer Card, he had to make a new one since he lost it many years ago. The rule for losing an Adventurer card is that you have to pay a fee of 10 dubloons which is very expensive for normal people. After a while the clerk handed over their cards to them.
Name:Jin Lamb
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 34
Blood Type: H
Rank: C
Abilities: Swordsman
Guild: Unwanted
Position: Member
Name:Catherine Lamb
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Age: 7
Blood Type: R
Rank: F
Abilities: Unregistered
Guild: Unwanted
Position: Member
I noticed that Jin and Catherine have the same last names on their cards. I asked the clerk why it was like that. Then the clerk answered that when slaves are freed through the Adventurer Guild their last name is automatically Lamb. I asked if there was a way to get their real last names. He said that it would cost 1000 dubloons which was absurdly expensive. Since money was no problem, I decided to get their last names back. The clerk in the counter took back their cards and made some modification after I paid the fees.
Name:Jin Ule
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 34
Blood Type: H
Rank: C
Abilities: Swordman, Tracker
Guild: Unwanted
Position: Member
Name:Catherine Éclair
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Age: 7
Blood Type: R
Rank: F
Abilities: Unregistered
Guild: Unwanted
Position: Member
The clerk gave me back my card after charging the fees from giving back their last names.
Name:Albert Van Wolfe
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Blood Type: X
Rank: F
Abilities: Unregistered
Credit: ₡644,980.000.000
Guild: Unwanted
Position: Leader
After finally getting all of those things done. I decided to take Catherine and Jin to the tailor to get them some new clothes. There's been some other things that has been added to my to do list and I need them to look the part.
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