With a new day starting, I always thought it would be better than the last, but for the past few weeks every day I get worse news of what's happening in town. Every day that passes I dare a few rumors or confirmed news about countless conflicts going on around the city the chaos hasn't spread inside the city walls yet, but it's only a matter of time since yesterday Torris told me that the guild and city guards will make their move against the Chartreux family.
Over the last week I've heard that in several villages like the emerald village of the Yates family has been the battleground between the noble factions I thought this would only happen after the fall of the Chartreux family, but it seems I have underestimated the nobles they have made a war on a small scale in arias from nearby feature of our city.
Villager deaths have been kept to a minimum when comparing the killing of warriors and few mages employed by noble families like their private army the nobles gain nothing by carrying out a massacre in the disputed territories. And with the conflict spread in the air of influence of the noble families several groups of mercenaries have come to participate, for them and an opportunity to make a decent amount of gold quickly and before the real conflict starts for now there is only hostility between people with a green core or lower.
Over the last week I heard the news that a mine and two agricultural villages were destroyed by the confrontation of the nobles, but in its defense only the mine was directly destroyed by the conflict of the nobles the villages were destroyed by bandits who took advantage of the majority of the guards who were in the villages were dead or too wounded to defend their village.
Several criminal groups are taking advantage of the chaos created by the nobles as well as the mercenaries they also came to the region in search of opportunities, but the biggest difference is that they do not hold back and their way of earning money is attracting much more problems for everyone, they not only are they making money from thefts of goods and supplies but from selling slaves to the neighboring kingdom and that is the last thing the kingdom's guild and army wanted to happen.
The subject of slavery is very complicated, the story of it is long and complicated because the Vallinde kingdom is populated by more than one intelligent species, although humans were predominant before the founding of the kingdom avia a forest inhabited by elves and some settlements made. by dwarfs and by the wild people that branch out into several tribes named for their physical characteristics such as tiger, lion and fox.
During the formation of the kingdom Vallinde hears several conflicts caused by hatred and prejudice for different races trying to live close to slavery was something common and much used by everyone. Elves, dwarves, tribes and human settlers all enslaved members of different races even though criminals and circumstance victims were enslaved by their own kind.
But now slavery and a taboo in the kingdom Vallinde because the first King Wales Vallinde was a descent for runaway slaves, he was the son of an elf slave and a human slave, it took him several decades to rise from the bottom of the social ladder to military power. to subdue them all and found a kingdom. But even several generations after the foundation of the kingdom, certain customs created by the first King are followed by the royal family to this day.
And one of them is slavery within the kingdom cities can only become slaves for few reasons slavery and a small and extremely regulated market here. To some classes of slaves such as criminals who during their sentence are considered slaves of the kingdom and have to work in the construction and maintenance of the royal family's properties, this type of slavery is temporary since with the end of the sentence the slave is freed and only the royal family can have that kind of slave.
The second type and slavery are imposed on people who owe large sums of money to a noble family whoever owes money to a noble family can make a slave of that family, but this slavery is also temporary if the debt is paid the slave must be released, although it is extremely difficult for a slave to pay his debt alone it can still happen if he has a valuable talent that allows him to earn enough money to pay his debt and be freed.
But it is very rare for a cape professional to become a slave because of debt. This type of slave cannot be subjected to senseless violence by its owner, it is imposed by the royal family. So, this type of slave cannot be abused and ends up being seen as a loyal worker who cannot betray the noble family that enslaved him.
The last type of slave is made up of slaves who were not born in the kingdom but came as slaves from neighboring kingdoms. This type of trade suffers various types of fees and supervision by the royal family and this is done to hinder and discourage this type of trade, but as it is not prohibited by law to many nobles who pay absurd amounts for foreign slaves even if the kingdom taxes aggressively there will always be profitable transactions for the slavers so this market is far from disappearing, but it has diminished with time the royal family has made the life of slavers very complicated.
But now with the idiotic actions of various criminal groups probably foreigners who are attacking defenseless villages and kidnapping villagers and enslaving them to sell them in the neighboring kingdom and an affront against the royal family. If the royal army and the city's nobles don't solve this problem the capital's army will smear to the south.
I believe that neither one of the noble houses will want the royal family to get directly involved in the conflict between the noble families if the army of the capital comes south all the noble families will lose power, money and will be marked as incompetent. Then I heard from Hilda that the Vernos, Menfis and Eliure families who control the city will dispatch their elites to kill any criminal group across the southern territory of the kingdom.
The idiots who thought of making money by selling kingdom citizens will not only be married in the kingdom's territory but will also continue to be married by the neighboring kingdoms if the group identity is known to the three families they will be married for their entire lives, even groups of thieves that had no relationship with the attacked villages became targets of the three families.
And this will cause a lot of problems for the Vernos family faction as it is linked even indirectly with criminals because of the Chartreux family which in turn is even more doomed than before. Any hope they had of surviving is gone because of the bandits' attacks they will now be branded as conspirators and supporters of illegal slavers.
After the capital received the report that the robbers were married and the Chartreux family that helped them was destroyed, the superficial peace had returned to the city.
The direct war between the noble families has been postponed indefinitely because of this week's events, but even if the elite of the noble families do not come into conflict, the resource sites of the southern region will still be up for grabs by the noble factions.
But I like to see life positively so I'm going to focus on the good news I'm very happy that there won't be any more open warfare between the nobles the dispute will only stay at the level it already is. The only thing that will change at the end of this conflict will be who controls which resource point in the southern region this fight will take months as it will only really start after the southern aria of the kingdom is cleared of all criminal groups, only after this happens the war for control of resource points will start.
And before that happens, I want to visit the emerald village again, Ingredi is very close to her advance, but unfortunately it will only happen a little before the institute test and she is not very motivated to venture out after her advance as she something bad happens, your institute test result could be jeopardized, in the worst case we could miss the test date.
I understand your concern, but our openness to being able to get the source of the life element before the conflict between the nobles starts again and small, the bandits don't have the ability to last long against the elite groups of the nobility, I doubt that they survive two whole months and since I don't know how long the institute test will take and how long it takes to recover after it and then add up the time we'll spend locating the source of the life element, I can't be sure we'll be able to recover the source before the conflict started again.
But every operation depends on Ingredi wanting to go out and take a chance, unfortunately I don't know how to talk to her, so I asked Hilda to talk to her if Hilda succeeds let's get out of here two days after her advance and play in the dirt near the emerald village.
I hope to earn a lot of money selling the life element source and use the money to improve our equipment to improve the institute's test performance.