'In the name of all things buttery and smooth'! Ava shouts when a fist with a raised knuckle smacks against my temple.
Smacking someone and knocking them out is something that works only in movies.
They use that trope like a pause button.
Someone would have to stand still and give you their back for that to work, and I could see this coming from a distance.
The way she picked us up, and the lessons she taught us all point to us working as slaves.
Like the Helots of the Spartan empire, we are to be worked to the bone for the rest of our lives.
They probably get uneducated, moldable and easily manipulated youngsters and forcibly try and condense their mana cores.
More than likely they would take information about them and blackmail or threaten them into bringing back arrays.
I think of Yuit, he is one hell of a catch.
All they have to do is tell him they will kill his family, it's what I would do.
If he is talented, that threat might become a reality just to prove a point.
