Following the little dog girl, five human males also appeared. They surrounded Rein and his group from all sides and even took out their weapons. A man who looked like their leader then shouted -
"Hey, hand that girl over to us and come with us to our base for a search. If you value your life quickly sit down on your knees while holding your hands up."
When the people of the market saw these men, they immediately ran away. All of them were wearing a badge with an engraving of an open mouthed wolf.
Many cities had underground organisations who were in charge of the dark side of the city. Most of the city had several such organisations fighting each other for supremacy, but in few rare cases, one of the organisations would be able to emerge victorious and would be able to control the underworld of a city completely.
Hetharna was such a rare case. A gang named "Night Wolf Gang" suddenly appeared 12 years ago and was able to completely take the underworld of the city under their control in just 7 years. So for the last 5 years, no one had the ability or the guts to go against them.
Those five men who attacked Rein and his group were from this same gang. So everyone tried their best to avoid them. The people of this gang were said to be ruthless so everyone was very scared of them.
But obviously that was not the case for Rein and his group. Tasha acted like she did not even notice the weapon wielding man and sat down in front of the scared little girl and asked her in a soft voice -
"Calm down. You have nothing to fear anymore. Just tell this big sister what happened to you. We all will help you."
Hearing that the little girls fearfully looked at Rein and Stella. In response Rein gave her a gentle, assuring smile and even Stella tried her best to put on a smile on her cold face. This somehow relieved the girl. But just as she was going to speak, the leader like man shouted again -
"How dare you all ignore me. Boys, give them hell."
Four of those underlings immediately moved with their weapons. The little girl closed her eyes in fear. But she did not hear any sound even after quite some time had passed and she slowly opened her eyes. The scene that she saw stunned her.
All five of the men were lying on the ground fainted. As the little girl was wondering if she was in some kind of a dream or not Tasha spoke up once again -
"Little girl, don't worry. As I said you have no need to fear anything anymore. Just tell us your circumstances. How about you start with telling us your name ?"
Again the scared little girl was able to calm down a bit and started to explain her situation. She was obviously very young so her explanation was not very detailed, but as she was an intelligent girl, Rein and his lovers were able to understand her story quickly.
This little girl was Sara. She used to live in an isolated beastkin village in the neighbouring nation. But one day, their village was attacked by a bunch of humans and many of their kins died fighting against them.
These humans were unable to completely destroy their village, but were able to capture a few beastkin children and Sara was one of them. Then that brought her to this city to sell them in some kind of underground auction. But Sara was able to run away as one of the guards was very careless.
Then she used her strong sense of smell to find help. In this whole city only Tasha was a beastkin who was living here openly so Sara was able to track her smell and come to her. Normally Tasha would be able to completely hide her smell but now as she was out on a date, she did not want to do so. Which turned out to be very lucky for the little girl Sara.
Tasha then asked her if she could guide them to the location where she was kept with other captives and Sara nodded her head as she remembered it very clearly. So Rein, Tasha and Stella decided to help the little girl by destroying that criminal syndicate. It could also be a very exciting date. Fighting side by side was a very fun date activity, right ?
So just like that, the destruction of "Night Wolf Gang" became inevitable.
...
Sara immediately took Rein, Tasha and Stella toward a famous large shop. According to her the other captives were kept in an underground cellar of this shop. Obviously the people working in the shop could not allow strangers to freely enter their underground cellar.
So, Rein and his lovers were forced to use violence. As many of the normal workers of this shop might be unrelated to crime, they did not kill anyone and just knocked them all out. It was an easy task for powerhouses like them.
After entering the underground cellar, they saw a horrible scene. Many beastkins kept here were restricted by magic chains and quite a few of them were badly tortured. There were both male and female beastkins and almost all of them looked half head.
Other than beastkins, there were a few elves and dwarfs also present there. They were supposed to be sold as slaves to rich merchants and nobles.
Rein immediately used his light magic to heal the injured people. Tasha and Stella used their magic to break all the magic chains to free everyone. Just as they were busy doing such things, a few men entered the underground cellar from outside.
The man at the very front was wearing an expensive looking dress. He had the behaviour of a person who was used to giving orders. Behind him stood a tough looking man with a scar on his left eye and another man wearing very impressive gear. He also had a ferocious smile on his face.
The man with the expensive dress was the first to speak up -
"I'm viscount Abil Denclobe. How dare you all commoners still stand before me. Kneel down."
Obviously no one paid him any attention. Rein was still busy properly healing everyone without leaving behind any hidden wounds and Stella and Tasha were busy gathering all the captured people in one place. Seeing that these lowly commoners and beasts were ignoring him, viscount Abil's face turned red and shouted -
"Impudent trash, how dare you ? Jake, Kyle teach them a lesson."
Hearing his order the man with a scar and the man with a ferocious smile came forward. Viscount Abil spoke from behind with a smug smile -
"Haha, Jake is the leader of Night Wolf Gang and has strength equivalent to a high gold rank. And Kyle is a platinum rank adventurer. Hehe. I will not kill you all easily. First I will torture you properly to teach you that you should not disrespect a noble and only after learning that lession I will send you to afterli.."
But before he could finish his words, Rein who had just completed perfectly healing over a seventy beastkins turned around and attacked those two men bare handed. And even before they could react, the man with a scar whose name was Jake died. His head exploded like a watermelon. And as Rein held back a bit, Kyle did not die but he flew to the wall and lost consciousness.
Seeing this unbelievable scene, Viscount Abil fell to the ground and peed his pants. Rein gave him a look as if he was looking at a gross insect and used a lightning magic spell to make his unconscious from afar. He was too disgusted to even touch him.
Rein then used the same magic on other small fries present here just with a bit more intensity and all of them died. He kept the viscount and the platinum ranker alive only to ask them questions. He had no reason to keep these other criminals alive.
Then he looked back at the audience present there who were all looking at him with worship.