(Su Daji POV)
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The two pill bottles in my hand were certainly useful, but there was no time to digest either pill at the moment. If I tried I would be left vulnerable while absorbing the pill's effects.
From where I first woke up I heard a couple of men talking to each other quite vividly. If I was a normal human I might not of even noticed that they were even speaking to each other.
"Didn't you say there was some good product here?" A man with a stern voice asked.
"Huh? I swear there was a young woman here! Just looking at her I could tell she would fetch a lot of money! I bet we would of even been able to sell her for a platinum or two!" Another man probably upon noticing I was gone spoke franticly.
For some reason that second voice sounds familiar, why is that?
"*Sigh* Stop talking. A platinum or two, really? That might even be 5x what the rest are worth combined! If it's truly what you say, then why didn't you guard her better?! You left her all alone and now she's gone! I okay, we still have around 25 people. They should fetch for quite a sum, if not by quality than by quantity." The first spoke with a disappointed and agitated tone.
"It's true, it's true I swear! Please, let me have a couple people to search for her! I promise that you won't regret it once I find her!" Said the second possibly trying to redeem himself.
"The boss has been getting antsy lately from our lack of product we're returning with. You really want to? Fine you can take these two, but you only get 3 hours to search. We don't have much time until the boss wants the product and you don't want the boss to be angry, alright?
We don't get lucky like this all the time. Finding a destroyed caravan which just so happens to still have some valuables and a number of living people. Not to mention that these "people" are quite valuable merchandise."
"Yes, yes don't worry I'll definitely bring her back and appease the boss.
Come on! Let's go in this direction she couldn't of gone far."
3 Sets of footsteps quickly began disappearing into the surrounding woods.
"Alright everyone keep searching for anything useful until they come back. If they don't come back by that time we'll leave." After saying that 6 sets of footsteps scatter around what remains of the caravan.
A moment later the final set of footsteps began to move and it started to come towards me! From my memories I shouldn't of even woken up at that time. I should of woken up in one of the prison cells.
It was such a long time ago, but I think they all gloated at the time about being in the Body Refinement realm and having more money than even 3rd Stage Essence Gathering Realm Cultivators.
I don't think I ever heard them say anything about their Realm levels though. As long as they aren't an entire Realm above me I might be able to fight them. After all I was still a 7th Stage Golden Core Cultivator for what felt like 10 minutes ago for me. Although I can't use any of those abilities I still have experience and training that Master taught me.
Master was amazing at seemingly every weapon. I remember he once told me that he stuck with the sword for a year or two before switching over to another weapon since he wanted to try something new. And that seemed to be the catalyst which changed his way of combat ever since.
Even creating a unique technique he called: 3 Form Free-Flowing. In which he used 3 different weapons, smoothly flowing between each weapon and when best to use them. Most often her used a halberd, sword, and daggers or knifes.
While I was thinking back to when master showed his techniques I lost track of how long I was thinking about them for. At this time The man who's been approaching had almost made it to where I had entered.
Looking around the ground for anything to use as a good weapon I looked back at the box I had taken the pills from. The container was partially make of iron and wood. The edges especially was made of iron and the corners of the box might be enough to cause some damage.
Putting my body right against the hole in the wall I waited for the man to enter. Not even a second later he entered looking down at bloody cloth of the other side of the overturned carriage. At that moment I swung down the box with the corner aimed at the top of his head.
Immediately, the man's head caved in and his body went limp. He didn't even get to put up a fight, dying just like that. As he dropped to the ground in one hit I was stunned.
'Huh? Was it always so easy to kill someone? Maybe he just wasn't a high level one. No I can't think about this too much now, I have to act. After waking up in that prison cell I never saw any of my fox tribesmen ever again. This is my chance to save them. My tribe won't die out this life!'
Mother, Father, and my close family had already died when the convoy was first ambushed, but there was still the rest. Such as my aunts and uncles.
Looking down at the body I smashed the the box on his head another time before looting his body. When the box smashed into his head drops of blood landed onto my already dirtied white robes. All he had besides the robes on his body was a list of names, a sword, and a small knife.
'Why does it seem like almost every generalized cultivator has a sword as their main weapon? Is it just because it's cool? It's not even the easiest weapon to start using. Master taught me that it was the spear.'
Sneaking out of the carriage I spotted 6 of the other slavers wondering around. Meanwhile there was a large group of 25 people who I recognized as my people tied up together. Almost all of them were on their own looting and looking though supplies what were scattered around.
Picking my fist target carefully I went towards a man who was both by himself and had no one else watching his back. He was the perfect one to kill and after him more and more opportunities to kill others would open up.
Pulling out the small knife I cupped his mouth with my left hand before slicing his jugular. Master knew so much about the human body. He taught me that cutting through the throat of people actually required quite a bit of strength, instead I should cut sides where these jugular veins were for a easier kill.
As the cut formed the man finally reacted though too late to stop anything. Blood spewed out partially covering my hand while the rest flowed onto his body. After 7 breaths the man stopped moving and his eyes glazed over.
When the first died the next followed and then the next until the second to last one died. From the time of cut to death it was around 5 - 15 breaths of time. But just when the second to last one died, the final one began to call out to people.
"Hey guys, I'm bored already! Anyone want to a game with me? We can't possibly just search the same place over and over until those 3 come back right?" The guy spoke completely unaware of his companion's deaths.
"..."
"Guys? Come on! I know I'm not the only one that's bored here right?"
"..."
"Guys! Get out here, it ain't funny! Stop doing this shit! Making me think I'm all alone here!"
"..."
"COME THE- Ah finall- Who the fuck are you?! What the fuck do you think you're doing here huh!? Ah, I see you wanna join those new slaves over there huh?" The tone of his voice changed twice, once when he say me and another when he realized who I was.
'There was no need to speak to this person they were going to die soon anyway.'
The man soon became a little cautious of me pulling out his sword once noticing I had one as well.
"Hmph! You're the one old seventh was chasing weren't you? To think you were hiding here all along! Ha, you almost fooled us! But now you'll regret that you didn't actually run. He was pretty spot on with your looks though, you look like you would go for a platinum or even more.
EVERYONE THE GIRL IS HERE!!!" The man screamed at the end.
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'Okay that's enough I should kill him.'
Dashing over I had unsheathed my sword directing the tip toward his head. Seeing me run over he arched his sword up before slashing downwards onto me. Yet with the way I held the sword I blocked the attack, but that wasn't all. As our swords collided the edges of our swords slide and skit off each other. While his sword was blocked from slashing down at me, my own sword thrust slid past his sword slicing into his jugular vein.
Once I saw the flow of the blood from the man's neck I knew he was a dead man. He wouldn't be able to stop the flow of blood from his body so there was no need to worry about him anymore. But just in case I watched him and made sure he fell before I moved on.
Moving over to the group of tied up people I saw some people I was familiar with while the rest were from other families. All of them were unconscious though and clearly the screaming of the man from earlier didn't work.
Moving over to one of my uncles I cut off the rope binding him and started to shake him. It won't hurt to try after all. After about 8 breaths of time he began to wake up and stared at me with groggy eyes.
"Hmmm...Huh?... Su Daji? Is that you? Did they get you too? Oh I should of never chosen this route..." His voice started to tremble as he looked at me.
"No, Uncle I wasn't captured, quickly help me untie and wake everyone up!" I spoke while pulling him up by his arm.
"What? O-ok I understand." As he looked around he was slightly bewildered at the surroundings and how there were no enemies.
handing over the bloody knife I drew my sword and began to cut the rope which bound the rest.
Uncle took a look at the knife before asking me, "Why is there blood on this knife? D-did you kill someone?"
"Yes! Now come on! We have to wake them up! It's dangerous here!" With that he stopped asking questions for now, instead helping me untie and wake the others up. One by one more and more people regained their consciousness and started to look at their surroundings.