Standing in front of the huge wall, Don circulated his Battle Energy to make the jump over the offending obstacle. At this moment, he was not planning to land on the ground. But instead, he was going to jump straight onto the manor's rooftop.
Don knew that the manor was surely trapped with detection magic and motion sensor magic, but he was not worried at the very least because he had no magic core, and hence, no magic fluctuations to be found by the security mechanisms.
However, the thing he was worried about the most were the guards around Brian. Although he was sure that Brian won't let his guards watch while he was playing with the half-elf, Don was aware that there was no perfect plan. He didn't want to simply barge in and knock down the roof.
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(A few moments ago)
"Please let me go!!!! Let me go!!!!"
A scream reverberated throughout the corridor. Apart from the screams of the woman, only a few footsteps could be heard.
Rosaline was walking behind Minister Brian while the twins carried the box with the shouting half-elf inside it. She still remembered the lifeless body of the last woman he played with. And yet, Rosaline was glad that woman chose to end her own life before this animal claimed it.
As for the half-elf in the box, she could only feel pity. This half-elf and Minister Brian were bonded by the master-slave spell. He would be able to control her, so committing suicide was hopeless. Although a master won't be able to control the slave completely like a puppet, partial control was enough for Minister Brian. He was cruel enough to enjoy the screaming and crying of the half-elf. He was laughing and hitting the cage as if training a wild animal.
During her stay with her master in the capital, she heard that the master-slave bond spell will only be nullified if the slave would reach 'Heavenly level.' Unfortunately, reaching that level was so hard even for prodigies like herself. Therefore, the half-elf didn't even have a tiny bit of hope.
Rosaline heard that the half-elf was a peak master level magi. At first, she was completely shocked to know that fact because the other races in this part of the Empire were hunted and captured like rabbits. Reaching peak master level at this age while on the run without proper resources was simply an incredible feat. However, the gods struck down this poor half-elf by letting this animal capture her. The half-elf screamed and cried while shaking the cage like an animal ever since she regained her consciousness. The half elf's eyes were bloodshot red from the dizziness caused either by the spell or her constant crying. Her clothes were dirty and ragged. The only clean thing on her body was the chain she wore.
The half-elf clutched at the chain, crying, "Help me! Somebody help me!"
The Healer, Aster, couldn't walk like nothing was happening. She wanted to help the half-elf so bad, but Rosaline shook her head. As a hybrid between a human and a druid, Aster herself was a half-human. So it was natural for her to feel sympathy towards the half-elf. Be that as it may, she was still unable to do anything without Rosaline's permission.
Eventually, the group reached Minister Brian's bedroom entrance. The screaming and crying had quietened somewhat, the half-elf having exhausted herself.
"Put the cage inside the room and give me some privacy, will ya?"
Although it sounded similar to a request, Rosaline knew it was an order. As a result, she just nodded towards the twins and raised her hands to draw something in the air. She started to cast a spell around the room. As she finished casting, a blue layer of light surrounded the square room before vanishing without a trace…
"How kind of you, Rosaline. You personally cast the Trap magic for me."
The spell she cast was one of the protective or defensive spells 'Trap magic.' It will alert the one who cast the spell and slow down or immobilize the intruder based on the caster magi's power or the intruder's power. In other words, if the caster was more powerful than the intruder, the spell will immobilize the intruder. If not, it will only slow them down.
"Cast the Flower Volley spell too. I want this to be a wild and romantic evening," he rubbed his palms together and grinned a devilish smile.
Rosaline was sickened to hear him speaking. He was like a disgusting pig in her view. Minister Brian noticed Rosaline's silence as he laughed.
"Alrighty, I can cast that spell myself."
After casting the spell, Rosaline never even looked at Minister Brian. She simply walked out of the room, followed closely by her team. Once they left, Brian hastily shut the door and turned to see the half-elf.
"Before we start..."
He said he raised one arm to his eye level and cast the spell, "Flower Volley." Once he finished casting the spell, the fragrance of many flowers covered the room. The scenery of the room slowly transformed into that of a flower garden.
Seeing the devilish grin in the face of the human before her, she failed to keep her tears contained. She was born into a noble family in Venus, a kingdom in the Elvenor continent. However, she never thought that her family will be destroyed along with her kingdom in a single night. Her parents sacrificed themselves to let their daughter escape the kingdom. But after spending many years on the run, she was caught by her enemies and sold as a slave on the Avalon continent, where other races were crushed under the feet of the humans.
Thinking about her parents and their faces, along with the fact their sacrifice was in vain felt like her soul was being ripped apart. She prayed for a miracle, even though she knew it was unlikely that someone would help her. It was all she can do now.
"Let's play, shall we?"
Minister Brian advanced with his trademark devilish smile. He opened the cage, only to see the half-elf suddenly lunge at him. She started to attack him with her cuffed hands.
"You bitch!!!"
Brian ripped the cloth covering her upper body and slapped the half-elf, which caused her to fall on the cupboard filled with liquor bottles. The bottles fell on the ground and shattered with a clattering sound.
The collection of his precious wine bottles shattering made Brian so mad that he activated his master bound and used it to cause tremendous pain to the half-elf. She was covering her breasts with both arms as she crouched, screaming in pain just when she tripped on a small statue on the table.
The statue met the same fate as the wine bottles. Seeing his statue broken into pieces caused Minister Brian to boil in rage. He gritted his teeth and kicked her in the back. The force of the kick pushed the half-elf towards the wall.
"It seems like I have to punish you for not being a good dog."
He took out a whip from one of his cupboards and whipped the ground as he moved towards the half-elf.
"It's so much fun!" he laughed like a maniac and whipped the half-elf who was curled up in pain. She closed her eyes in impulse, seeing the whip.
However, the whip never hit her as she slowly opened her eyes to see someone else in the room standing behind the devil with the whip. He wore a brown robe with a hood covering his face. He was clutching the whip with one hand.
Minister Brian felt like the whip was stuck. He kept pushing forward with the whip to hit the half-elf, but it never moved as he slowly turned to see someone behind him clutching at the whip.
"Who ar-"
Before Minister Brian could even finish talking, a strong punch landed on his face, causing his nasal bone to pop with a crack. He covered his nose with both of his hands as he fell on a chair, blood coming out of his nose like water coming from a hose wetting his palms.
"Ahh-"
He wanted to shout, but the man before him took the whip from him and gagged him with it. Then the man in brown robes ripped his robes and tied his hands and body to the chair without even giving him any chance to move his body.
The man in brown robes was Don. He used the shattering and screaming sound to cut open the roof with his Battle Energy to break into Minister Brian's room from on top of the building. At this moment, Don was holding his knife just inches away from Minister Brian's neck.
"I'm going to ask you some questions. If you scream or start to cast a spell," Don touched Minister Brian's neck with his knife, "I'll slit your throat. You understand"?
Brian nodded his head.
Don removed the whip from his mouth.
"What how did Rosa-"
Don slapped him hard, "You don't ask questions. I do."
Minister Brian nodded again, spitting out a tooth with some blood.
"What do you know about the black-robed mage with the eagle symbol?"
Minister Brian's face showed fear, overcoming his pain, "No... No, I... I cant-"
Don put back the whip around his mouth and slowly stabbed through his right thigh. He made sure to twist it in.
"Hmmmmhmmmm!" Minister Brian couldn't even shout. He was twitching and shaking his body from the pain
"Do you want to tell me now?" Don stopped twisting the knife and removed the whip from his mouth.
After experiencing such pain, he never wanted to feel it again. He thought that if he could buy himself some time by telling the man what he wanted, he presumed Rosaline could come and save him.
"I...I've never met him before... He just came from nowhere and gave me a huge amount of money to capture the elves in the forest of the outer lands."
The Half-elf was looking at the scene with utter bewilderment. A moment ago, she was screaming, shouting, and being attacked. Now, her attacker was going through even worse suffering than her. She wanted to speak, but before she could open her mouth, the robed man put his one finger on his lips and shushed her. He then continued his interrogation
"Why?"
"I...I don't know. He just...just said that the extermination is coming."
"Did he mean the other races?"
"Don't know…. Please, that's all I know. Let me go. I'll give you money. A huge amount of money... I…. I'll give you women…elf! A Half-elf! Demi-humans! I can get them for you..."
He was desperate to save his skin. He didn't know why Rosaline hadn't come yet, so he did his best to negotiate and get some time.
"You do have what I want..."
A small glimmer of hope appeared on Minister Brian's face as he laughed despite the pain, "Hahaha! I knew you wanted something. Tell me and I'll give you my word. I swear, just let me go."
"I WANT YOUR MISERABLE LIFE."
Don covered Minister Brian's mouth with one hand and drew his knife out of his thigh and stabbed Brian's heart. Blood started to flow through the gap where the knife stabbed his chest. Brian twitched and struggled against his chair, the color on his face slowly turning pale as the life on his eyes faded away little by little.
This was the end of Minister Brian's life. Beaten, gagged, tied to a chair, and tortured. A knife stabbed through the heart.