Recap
I place my card as the beep stops after all my gold was gone as she leads us to the collecting station.
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In the novel, he was the blind knight that ends many corrupt aristocrats. He is very powerful, though he isn't a capture target or hidden capture target, many girls were 'simping*' over him. It was chaotic.
The Imperial family gave him the title of a Count with a huge amount of land. When he had the authority he made slavery non-existent.
Looking at him now I can see why he has the potential to capture many women's heart just by his looks. Even if the only flaw is that he is blind, he is still as handsome as in the game.
He was sitting down in the cage elegantly while he was only wearing eastern country's innerwear. He originally has his eyes covered by a long cloth.
The lady patiently waits for us to get the 'item' out of the cage. Brother Avin coughs with his hands covering, " Open the cage and let him out," he spoke with an authoritative voice. I added on, " Give us all his belongings when you got him. All of them."
The lady search up and down to finally found his belongings and gave them to Gill.
He walks out of the cage handcuff by a cloth behind his back. Now that some light was shining on him, I can finally see his face. He has a straight nose, rosy pink thin lips and his skin is white like a porcelain foll. His hair is jet black, messy and dishevelled. It reminds me of the handsome men in the xianxia* world.
I slowly look down and see a malicious collar. He had on a shock collar as if he will bite anyone who gets close. " Why does he need that collar?" I asked.
"It is a NEED as he is quite wild after all," she responded. She passes me a magic ring that connects to the collar. "Press the diamond if he is misbehaving."
I accept the ring and put on my index finger. The receptionist leads us to the backdoor exit. "Have a great evening." she greeted us as we left.
Now that we are a little further away I stop walking and turn towards the long black hair man. He surprisingly stops at the same time.
"Can I have your name?" he responded like a robot, " Fan"
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Since when I was very little, I was born without sight. My parents were upset but still treated me fairly. My kind has certainly lived frugally and help one another. My kind never mistreated anything or anyone.
We always live peacefully among the humans at Gunrith. Our village lives near the flying island and often trade with them.
We live in the forested areas which are not habitant by humans. On daily, my people will meet dangerous animals while hunting for food. In my village magicians are unusual so if a magician appears we treat them with respect.
We never use magic so we always train our bodies and mind near the waterfall. My kind's senses are always very sharp, luckily for me, my sense is stronger than anybody in my village in replacement of my eyes. My village's population is only 500, also because of our nature we do not have many partners. So when one is born our village will rejoice as birth is very difficult for my people.
One day, I can see things life force when I open my eyes. I can only see the shape of their life force or as many people call it a soul. It comes in various colours my parent's soul is both grey and yellow, sometimes mixed.
In my whole village, I have never seen anyone with other colours other than grey or yellow. My tribe is also known as the wolf people.
Our birth rates are declining so the good humans protect us while sometimes there are the bad ones.
When bad humans came to my village, they often abduct our women and children. We cannot afford to let this incident happen so we seek help from the good humans and ask for the bad human's heads.
The bounty on them raises quite high in Gunrith. However, bad humans always getting smarter and smarter. They can hide their smell so our men have to always do guard duty at night.
They always smell like blood and alcohol. Thanks to my keen senses I can smell them from 5 trees away even after they try to hide their smell. That day I was trying to bait them and they fell for it. I act as a woman of my kind by wearing their kind of clothes, it is a thinner material but quite comfortable. I wore a veil so they will not recognise my face.
They were yanking many of us into the forest. They lead us to a carriage with a cage at the back and throw us inside roughly. " Hey! Don't be so rough with our products!"
Another reply, " Haha My bad!" as he pushes us into the cage.
The women in the cage recognise my smell thinking they will be saved by their spouses. They seem calmer, though one of the women starts to whimper and weep.
The sound of her cries echo in the forest, one of the kidnappers came to look and shut her up by smacking her face.
We all quiver and help her calm down in case that man decided to strike another one of the women. After a while of travelling, the women saw an ordinary cave that the abductors are heading towards as Yaher use her finger to communicate silently with me.
Yaher who was drawing on my hand tremble slightly. I have known Yaher for quite some time as she was my age, she doesn't get frightened very easily so if she is afraid it is not a good sign.
A sudden stench of blood hit all of our noses as we enter the cave. When we enter the cave many snickers can be heard. I held on to the trembling Yaher to support her. When they stop the carriage, they slowly pull the women out of the tiny cage.
One by one the women's smell dissipates, they push us down to a hidden entrance that is made by magic to hide us. Suddenly we heard a roar.
It was a roar that even scare the bad humans. The monster kills humans very quickly so I thought it was helping us. It was a foolish thought.
As soon as it kills the humans it came for us. " IT IS THE KING OF THE FOREST! RUN!!" the screams of both the humans and my people gave me a headache.
Thanks to Yaher who was pulling me up, I can properly gain back to my senses. The next second I felt the same hands become cold. I quickly take off my veil and use my eyes to see the Yaher's soul becoming dark grey from the normal grey. I could see the magic arrow shot that shot Yaher. "Run. Fan..." she spoke before collapsing on the ground. Her soul now has no colour.
I hold my ground and let out some tears before preparing to target that human that shot Yaher. Unfortunately, the King of the forest got to him quicker than me. So I was standing in front of the mighty magical bear that ate the human's head in one swift move. It chews loudly.
CRUNCH. CRUNCH. CRUNCH.
The mighty bear slaughtered indiscriminately, both humans and my tribe people. For the first time, I feel such a dangerous aura from a non-human species.
Nevertheless, I pick up a scythe on the ground that the kidnappers were using and ran towards the huge figure. The mighty bear uses one of his paws and push me away. I fell and hit against the wall in the cave.
I could feel that I was losing consciousness due to my blood seeping out.
By the time I regain my conscious my tribe people arrive at the cave. My parents sprinted towards me searching my body for injuries. The village chief cried when he saw Yaher's dead body.
He was infuriated by the fact that I was one of the few promising youths to be the next strongest in the village yet unable to protect his granddaughters. He announces that he wants my banishment to be on the spot.
Without much opposition, I was to leave the village promptly.
When my mother heard about the news, she cried while holding on me. Even my father who is usually emotionless let a sad outburst of tears. I can not see their expressions so I decided to touch their faces. I promise my parents that I will come back stronger to protect them.
"Son, you just have to come back alive!" my father spoke. "En, your father is right! Come back alive!" The tears that I unknowing was holding back came down like a waterfall.
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Simping* - Someone who foolishly overvalues someone else.
Xianxia* - is a genre of Chinese fantasy influence by Chinese mythology, martial arts, Chinese folk religion, and other traditional Chinese elements.