"Young lady called?" Zhun Xuying saw Zhi Rui wearing total black pants and longsleeved shirt, She got anxious. The day of the action came earlier than expected.
Zhi Rui saw her inner struggle and laughed.
"No need to think too much. Your job will be to collect and transport, Nothing more."
It was already six in the evening. Zhi Rui didn't instruct this newbie in any way, just sent her to her own preparations. they'll be leaving in half an hour.
Zhi Rui herself is a newbie to cultivation, but with years of struggle, she won't freeze when blood is spilled, and won't hesitate to attack when a gap is exposed. as for Zhun Xuying, there's no need to worry, if she wasn't vicious than she would've died before reaching adulthood in the slums.
After half an hour Zhun Xuying appeared at the entrance of the manor with a medium sized carriage, used for groups of nobles to be comfortable in. Nervous and anxious Zhu Xuying took a heavy armor from the manor and brought it on a small chest together with other small traps and swords. 'It pays to be cautious' She kept repeating on her head.
'Everything will begin today.'
Zhi Rui entered the carriage revising every step of the plan.
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Eight in the night, the black market just opened, some mercenaries and nobles representatives went directly to the fifth street, the one isolated only for slave trading. The slaves that didn't cultivate stood naked without any kind of chains, there was a variety of slaves but the most common were still humans, these were the common trade even small businessmen came to buy them.
Rank 2 guards kept an eye on their tents at all times, rank one guards stayed seated at the stands negotiating and selling, while Rank three stood with the boss, they rarely appeared.
A middle-aged man with a scar in his eyes and red armor was listening to the clerk
"Sir, I'm afraid it's useless to look for lower prices, while there are different owners through the street, there's an understanding between them."
the scar-faced man did not talk anymore and just went out.
He did the same thing with all the tents inside the street. When he reached the last tent. He also reached the end of the street, there was an exit from where the merchants moved their merchandise.
The scar-faced man withdrew into a dark corner and disappeared. No one saw where he went.
Hilda was on the roof of the last tent, beside her where the red armor and a mask of a scar-faced middle-aged men
'The owners of these tents usually gather at the black market's brothel with the Rank three-masters. When they come to action, the show will already be over.' She thought, looking at the rank one guards making their sales pitch.
'Just like she said, without rank three masters, I can spread these small runes everywhere and no one would notice.'
Hilda remembered Zhi Rui's expression when they met twenty minutes ago.
Excitement. People who see her might think she's going dig up a treasure.
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Izaya was watching the slaves by the end of the road. earlier he received a warning about a suspicious scar-faced man. Izaya didn't care he only had eyes for the woman standing in front of the tent, she had a body of a human woman but her ears and tail gave away her true nature, a hybrid. She's the result of his irresponsibility with a human woman. He wanted to grab her and take her out of this place, but even with his innate strength. He couldn't run away.
Izaya committed heinous crimes to reach this place, yet he could not take her away his hands are clenched in his crossed arms, his teeth clenching family in place
His face is on the wanted poster's around the kingdom so he changed his appearance and name, to be contracted as a guard here, fortunately, his daughter did not recognize him.
A weird wind breeze passed by his ears, Izaya shot his head up to the sky, a shadow went over the walls of the market. His animalistic instincts kicked in "PROTECT THE MERCHANDISE!" He jumped towards his daughter. A flash of light blinding everyone came right after the scream
Except for the place around where the common slaves stood. Everything else was on fire, but these slaves didn't even form an inner core, just the smoke is enough to kill them if exposed for a long time.
Izaya saw this and looked at the exit, he screamed at the tops o his lungs.
"ALL SLAVES IMMEDIATELY RUN THROUGH THE CARGO EXIT, RANK ONE MASTER SCOLT THE WAY FOR THEM! RANK TWO MASTERS WATCH OUT FOR INTRUDERS!"
Izaya holds his clueless daughter tight and ran ahead, but a rank one guard receiving an arrow to his head stopped him. only the slaves passed freely the guards were being attacked
Izaya clenched his teeth and let go of his daughter, gave her a knife and said "Go outside and wait for me, blend with other slaves and wait for me!"
The girl didn't have time to answer before the crowd separated them.
With nobody holding him back Izaya used the other guards as a shield he fought the arrows more freely, after ten or so minutes of struggle with the arrows he reached outside. Ten meters away from the cargo exit was the forest, there were signs of a stampede on the way to the forest.
He took a deep breath of the hot air of the night
he looked around the bodies on the grounds. with a clank one guard star moving, Izaya run at him. "please call the healer, please"
Izaya directly slapped the guard awake.
"What happened!? Why the slaves went to the forest?!
"Ugh-uh sir, some people come in screaming the general's daughter is on the road. saying she was here to rescue them" the man was barely conscious. these arrows are poisonous.
Izaya' eyes went cold. He started thinking.
"p-please the heal-pfft"
With one swift motion, Izaya smashed his feet on the guards head
'The fire in the whole street was a way to get the slaves outside. Whoever is behind this, had the courage to steal from the black market, and it's not a simple person.'
Izaya noticed the guard was already dead, he looked into the forest and pictured his daughter.
He had to find out the intentions of the robber. So he can rescue his daughter.
He could feel some rank two masters coming. 'Good, I'll need them."