"Andrean!!" Laurent shouted out loud when she was waking up. The last thing she saw in her dream is Red Blood cursing Vienga flying ship while it was shooting fire out to the ship.
Laurent was confused waking up, she blinked her eyes again and again to see the surroundings. Feeling pain all over her body with her hands and feet were tied. She thought everything was just a dream, she still was on the ship.
Until she realized she was not lying on the wood of the deck, the feeling like she was lying on the ground full with pebbles. She rose up with her eyes wide awake, seeing ten beautiful girls around her, she was in the temporary tent which she usually saw in the market.
"Where am I?" She got up quickly when she aware where she was, so she just asked a girl nearby.
A beautiful girl nearby her with blonde hairs gave Laurent a glance before she answered. "We are at the slave market of Daren"
"Slave market of Daren?" She did not believe what she just heard, she thought she was dead in the river, how come she was alive. If she came here by carriage, it might take time at least two days.
"Daren?" Laurent repeated.
Two days after everything happened to her, to Vienga ship...and to everyone. She wondered if everyone on Vienga ship was dead because of the curse of that dragon. Laurent had no idea what happened after she was thrown down to the Eireedar waterfall, where was Andrei, where was Uhezga and everyone. What if everyone chose to work with Captain Clount or what if everyone died with our captain.
Laurent did not know how they brought her here, two days they caught her and took her to the slave market of Daren while she was unconscious. All over her body could feel the pain with the kicks from Clount, her hands and feet were tied, she just realized that she was in an old girl's dress made from cheap cotton. Who brought her here to sell as a slave might take her sky pirate clothes and already sold them.
"This is not right. Someone kidnapped me. They can't sell me as a slave. I'll call for justice!" Laurent shouted out loud and continued calling for attention. "Let go of me! I'll call for justice!"
In Erba-In, if someone say 'I will call for justice!', it's mean that people need help from the Justice Court, everybody who heard that would come for help, but here it was not. Nothing after Laurent shouted out loud, nobody came in the tent even she was in the market.
"Let go of me! I'll call for justice!" Laurent shouted again and again. "Let go of me! I'll call for justice!"
"It's useless," said a blonde hair girl with pretty face chuckled with a pity. "Here is the Slave Market, who care what is wrong, what is right? In Galeadon, Magic is everything. If you cannot use magic, nobody will listen to you." A blonde girl with pretty face spoke to her, she was tying with robe at her hands and feet also, but looked around other girls were not tying, they might be willing to sell themselves.
Laurent heard that people in Daren gave precedence to the magic but she never thought that people who couldn't use magic would be ignore and worthless in the kingdoms. Daren in her though was the most civilization in the realm but seemed like people could say something was right or something was wrong with the power of magic. The power of magic could judge everything in this kingdom.
In Erba-in kingdom seemed like it was the most barbarian kingdom but we had the court of justice because of the free spirit of sky pirates, so if someone was kidnaped to be slave, they could report to the court of justice for investigation and for the slaves who weren't willing to be, they could petition for setting them free from slavery.
Laurent glanced at her beautiful blonde hairs, her hairs were braided but messy, her rose pink lip and her light blue eyes all made her look very pretty.
"Excuse me, there is a stone under your skirt. Can you pass it to me?" She asked. Laurent just kicked it to her but after she got the stone, she started to hit her head with the stone.
"Hey! Stop! What the hell are you doing?" That girl made Laurent shocked; so she tried to move herself to against what that girl tried to do. She was a beautiful girl. Laurent didn't understand why she tried to destroy her beauty. As for her beautiful face, someone could buy her to be a wife. At least to be a wife might be better than a slave.
"Hey! Stop! Are you crazy?" Laurent shouted at her but that girl just looked back at her like an idiot. Because of the reason she did this, if she was crazy this girl might be an idiot.
Laurent saw her blood flew down to her face, she didn't understand but when she wants to ask someone came in the tent.
"What the hell are you doing?" A guy with messy beard yelled at that blonde girl and kicked her angrily. Looked at him, Laurent knew he was the merchant but another guy who was just coming in the tent, he was wearing clothes like the magician gown.
Laurent felt like everyone got horrified, no one moved or took a breath when they saw the magician.
"Is something wrong?" The magician asked the merchant.
"Nothing, sir. They are new girls for you to choose." The merchant bowed his head to answer politely, if there was a turtle shell cover him, he might hide his head inside.
"You said...nothing wrong, so what happened to them?" The magician asked but his eyes look at Laurent with full of bruises and beautiful blonde girl with blood flowing from her head. "Why don't you take care them better?" The magician asked the merchant with threatening voice, he wanted ten uninjured beautiful girls but he got eight with two useless wounded girls.
That blonde girl would make high price without a wound, even she looked dirty with blood he still saw her shiny white-skinned, beautiful face and silky blonde hairs. But when he looked at Laurent, those light brown hairs and normal grey eyes, he felt like something wrong with this girl but he didn't know what. He felt like he saw those eyes changing color in a wink.
"Where did you get her?" He asked the merchant while he was staring at Laurent.
"Her uncle sold her to me, sir." The magician looked at her wound; there were cuts and bruises from the weapon, they looked like from fighting, not from the accident.
"Oh, really? Seem like she is not from here. You dare to lie to me?" The magician turned to stare at the merchant and release the black aura from his magic.
There were two of the greatest dark magicians in the realm of Galeadon who have black aura, Laurent didn't know who he was, she just looked down to the ground, avoided making eye contact with him because she heard that the greatest magician could read the mind through the eyes.
"I..I found her beside the Eireen wood." The merchant stammered.
"Eireen wood? You mean she come from Zacharia?" The magician asked the merchant again. The merchant nodded his head.
"Two Gales for this girl." The magician gave the price to the merchant. He knew that these two girls were not willing to sell themselves, this tricky merchant might get her free and he would not keep them to lose any money to take care of them if he couldn't sell them.
"Two Gales? That's impossible, look at them, they will be beautiful when all their wounds were gone. Come on give me five hundred." The normal price was from one thousand but all this year the need for young girls from the magician increased in every day and it very hard to buy a cheap slave anymore. These two girls even they had wounds, it might be five hundred at least, especially if that blonde girl didn't hurt herself, she could make two thousand Gales.
"If you want to keep them, it's up to you." The magician knew that this greedy merchant would not keep them to lose more money, he didn't listen to any bargain anymore.
The merchant grinding his teeth when the Magician walked out, he bought that girl fifty Gales but sold her for two Gales. Cheaper than the no kneads old bread. He kicked Laurent to give for his until he felt enough. Then he paused and shouted out of the tent to give order.
"Send them all to the castle." He yelled out of the tent to order his men to take all the girls.