I don't really do anything but keep watch here, but now that's over after the successful trade with Akin the materials of the death element went in the direction of necromancers and other evil figures. It didn't take even a week and a half for Raven to make her move against Akin as a team of trackers followed the mana trail left by the rune arrangement on the crates from afar.
The attack on Akin was made in a new meeting place, as doing it in a tavern would be dangerous as they are not very resistant and many civilians can be dragged or disrupt the operation.
Raven chose to set up her trap in an abandoned building in a low-traffic area of the city, a shed would be very unusual as there was still plenty of time to make the second delivery of materials to Akin. The invitation to him said that Raven had to communicate with him because of a problem with the materials and she wanted him to check that the Death Element Substitute materials were good enough to replace a quarter of the value of the next delivery.
According to Raven a problem like this mixed with the solution is the best way to attract Akin without making him too alert and when I saw that the team, he brought with him to the match was small and not that strong, it proved that Raven was right.
Having many members in Akin's group increases the chance that one of them will be able to escape especially when to several low-level members, no one runs with more effort and desperation than a black or gray core warrior who is fleeing a battle that involves warriors and mages much stronger than them.
Those with a green core also run very hard, but their desperation is less that causes a strange phenomenon that happens at these times. A lower-level fighter can reach and sometimes even surpass a higher-level fighter than him.
It's in case the weak smugglers start running in a desperate attempt to save their life I must kill them with my bow, this time I'm not just a lookout but I have the task of killing the fugitives. But to my surprise not a living being ran out of the abandoned building, not one of them had a chance to do so.
A curse element mage who took a long time to set a trap for her targets, I don't know her name, but she introduced herself as Nightingale. She released a wave of purple energy and mana harming every member of Akin's entourage the moment Raven gave the signal.
Most of the gray and green core warriors were severely affected by a massive curse that was created with half the mana of an orange core curse element mage, without the help of much of her entourage Akin would not have been subdued in a while. so short.
The snake that was famous for being slippery was hit by a net of concentrated rays that burned a good part of its body, the famous scales of the serpent warriors that are able to protect them from blades and some magical elements were charred by Mia's rays.
This is the first time I've seen her using her magic at its full power, and when I say see I mean the dark and fast purple web that trapped Akin because the only thing I could see was the light of her lightning element and a little light that bounced off the windows of the building. I would have been surprised if I hadn't helped create the runic arrangements that isolated the sound that should have been able to cause a ripple of high-pitched sounds that would have caught the attention of anyone in that district of the city.
It didn't take long for Raven to subdue Akin and the rest of the warriors that came with him, the only real problem was the wind element mage who was killed by Sean's male, that troglodyte really doesn't know how to control it right he just needed a move to break through the wind barrier and the wind mage trying to jump through the wall.
Now the rectum of Akin's group will notice that one of the few mages in the group hasn't returned from the urgent meeting with that group of traders we just joined, there's nothing wrong with that situation or reason for someone working in Akin's group think something is wrong.
When I saw him killing the mage, I could only think that it was shit, I doubt Raven had a different reaction than I did today maybe she was bigger because she saw him split the mage in two. Apart from the shit the team barbarian did during the fight, he doesn't hear a single death during the subjugation of the smugglers anymore.
I can't say that I didn't expect this result after all our side had many advantages in this confrontation such as initiative, number of members, strength of members, location and to finish the element of surprise. The sum of all this obviously made the chance of our attack a success, the problem was subduing them all so we can use Akin to trap the cultists.
When I entered the building as my function on the outside of the building ended as the outside work now is to guard the perimeter so that no one tries to enter the building. My current job is to operate a part of the rune matrix that has been transported into the building.
Neither I nor Mia have the ability to make a complicated rune matrix like this that will be used on Akin and the rest of his men and one woman, in his entire group there is only one green core warrior the rest are all men.
Before we use the rune matrix on Akin let's practice it on the rest of your men just in case something goes wrong, Mia and I practice a lot with the rune matrix but this will be the first time we're both using them on anyone alive. Even though I hope all goes well, there's still a chance something bad will happen, especially when the first test subject is a red-core warrior.
Even if Akin is subdued his aura can still resist our method of persuasion. When I saw Akin being placed on the thick, heavy and massive black table he was being treated by the power so that his serious injuries don't get in the way of the procedure and several nails pierced his limbs which prevents his aura from traveling through his body.
It is quite dangerous for him to release a large amount of aura and elemental energy as he can explode like a large-scale poison bomb, but now he is immobilized near the table while one of his men is placed on the table by his panicked face and fear on Akin's face he seems to understand what is going to happen.
I positioned myself on the right side of the table and on her left side Mia prepares to operate the rune matrix, taking out the guinea pig that is on the table the only other person who is near the table and Nightingale, she is at the head of the black table with your staff ready and a poison twelve.
This poison is very special because it is deadly, but it does not quickly kill the victim who was unlucky enough to consume it, and it is a slow-death poison. This poison could be contained by the runes and curse, but if the recipient of this procedure violates the rules or tries to get rid of the poison it will be released directly into his heart condemning him to death.
And to complete this the curse will also try to kill him before the poison has a chance to activate, in all this only the runes carved on his body will not try to kill him directly they only help the curse and the poison kill him the way correct.
"Ready?"
Getting a nod of agreement in response from Mia and me, Nightingale declares the beginning of the process. As Nightingale channeled her elemental energy and mana into her staff and the poison, Mia and I began to activate the rune matrix.
As the main controller Mia was in charge of the mana and runes that will be transported into the fighter's body, my job is to keep the energy flows in the matrix stable and to prevent the warrior's aura or elemental energy from affecting the rune matrix. through the channel formed between the two.
When everything was ready, the violent process began to be carried out when Nightingale poured a dose of the poison into the warrior's mouth, when he cast a curse on him. The runes that shaped the mana that penetrated the warrior's body lit up the black table, when the three ingredients would mix there was not even a collision between them, the mana actually managed to stabilize the poison that traveled through his body and the curse that covered the body his.
The process was smoother than I expected, basically I didn't have to do anything to keep the rune arrangement stable, maybe this is happening because the warrior only has one green core, when Akin's turn starts I doubt it will be that smooth all over the process took around ten minutes to complete.
When the warrior was removed from the table for the next victim to be placed on the table, the warrior's green core had some runes engraved in the shape of a ring and they were covered by two dark purple snakes. The second change was in his heart where a rune kept the poison away from the warrior's heart, it was like an extremely thin and fragile glass film held the poison inside his heart.
Now I understand why Raven relies on this process to keep smugglers in check. I think the next few hours will be spent finishing up arresting the smugglers.