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Chapter 33 - Slavers and Bandits

Kayn was doing his best, but seeing slaves and being able to hear and see the abuse was causing his mind to seethe with rage again. However, he concentrated as hard as he could to keep it under control because he needed to focus on rescuing Kinzie.

He could remember what happened the last time he lost control, and he needed to maintain his sanity so that it didn't happen again. He couldn't afford to lose control here and possibly kill everyone including Kinzie.

'My first priority is rescuing Kinzie, and I need to control myself in order to do that. Running in guns blazing would get me nowhere and only cause me bigger problems. I need to be stealthy about this.'

Kayn continued to formulate how he wanted to go about executing his plan several times within a few seconds. Having a rank 4 mind provided him with greatly enhanced cognitive functions, so he was able to formulate several plans within less than a minute.

Due to the only light in the camp being from torches or a camp fire, Kayn decided that he would do his best to hide his presence using dark and shadow magics. He made a quick trip around the outskirts of the camp to try to find a weakness in the wall.

Kayn discovered two small holes in separate parts that allowed for a stream to enter and exit the camp, and luckily, they didn't have grates to bar his entrance. He wasn't excited about getting wet and crawling into the camp with one hand, but it was the best he could do without trying to sneak past the front guards.

The stream entered the camp and made a small loop near one of the smaller buildings before exiting again. Instead of following the stream to the building, Kayn entered just past the wall and exited to hide himself in the darkness of a bush nearby.

Kayn utilized a small amount of wind magic and fire to increase the temperature of the air and dry off quickly. Luckily by playing around with the elements as a kid he was able to discover he could heat up the air utilizing fire magic without actually igniting a fire.

The effect he created was similar to a blow drier focused solely around his body, so he didn't need to worry about the temperature of this side of the camp rising which would alert the people here.

Kayn infused himself with multiple elements in order to lighten his footsteps to reduce any sound as well as surrounded himself with a curtain of shadow so that he could move freely within the dark parts of the camp and hopefully not be noticed.

His destination was one of the small buildings near the back of the camp. He could only assume this was where the leader of the camp stayed since it was where the voice was coming from initially. The man had stated that a half-elf caused trouble to his men and was seemly talking with them, so Kayn assumed they were in the building with him.

When Kayn was just outside of the building, he once again melded his senses into the elements in order to get a general idea of what was going on inside of the small building. He didn't really know if anyone had done this kind of thing before so he just decided to call it sense extension from now on.

By using sense extension, he was able to discover that there was only the one guard he could see outside, two groups of people sleeping in different beds, and lastly two people in the last room. One was standing and the other was on the bed.

He was amazed with what he was able to learn about what was happening by using sense extension sort of like a bat uses echo location, but he needed to put that into the back of his mind. He was still extremely angry and was trying to keep himself as calm as he could in order to focus and be in control.

Kayn snuck around the side of the building, approaching the lone guard from the side while creating a small spear of ice that he wielded in his only remaining hand. Fusing wind and lightning into his body, he arrived swiftly by the side of the unaware man and stabbed the icicle through his head from under his jaw.

He left the icicle inside the man's head and then decided to drag his body behind the back of the building before making his way inside. Luckily for Kayn the buildings didn't have hinged doors and there was just a tarp he had to move to the side in order to enter into the building or the various rooms inside.

After Kayn entered inside of the building, he continued to move stealthily in order to arrive at the room where only two people were present. This room also happened to be at the rear of the building, so Kayn had to pass by the other room in which multiple sounds were coming out of now.

Arriving in front of the target room, he slowly moved the tarp to the side with the least movement possible hoping that the two inside wouldn't notice the disturbance. To Kayn's luck, it appeared that neither of them noticed him entering, so he was able to actually see what was happening in front of him.

'What's wrong with this world?!?' Kayn shouted in his mind looking at the scene in front of him.

Kayn started to immediately lose control of his emotions at that point as standing in front of him was a naked human man facing towards the bed while holding a chain in his left hand. The chain was connected to a collar around the neck of the woman who was lying pitifully on the bed.

Kinzie was stripped naked and had lacerations on the back of both of her ankles as well as the inside of her elbows. Kayn could guess that they had cut her tendons to prevent her from moving much or trying to escape.

The man then grabbed Kinzie's legs to spread them apart to which she replied with a muffled scream as her mouth was gagged. "Now you'll learn what your new life will be like as my plaything, I don't mind keeping some merchandise on occasion when I can break a strong-willed elf like yourself hehehe."

The man who was about to defile Kinzie suddenly stopped as something felt off. He looked down only to see that a black demonic looking clawed hand had gripped his goods and ripped them clean off of his body.

Blood started to shoot out of his injured crotch covering the bed and floor around him as he started screaming. Even through all of the pain, he turned around to deal with the thing that had detached his manhood.

In front of him was a humanoid looking black dragon. A humanoid stature with wings, clawed hands and feet, scales lining the exposed arms and chest, and the head of a dragon.

Wisps of dark matter circled around this figure and radiated off of its body. The beastly appearance seemed to be more of a spell covering someone rather than a beast itself. But the man couldn't deny that the figure in front of him was real. Even if it was just mana gathered in a draconic looking form, it was solid as he could see his genitals were still gripped inside of its clawed hand.

All of the sudden black flames engulfed the figures hand and the leader of the camp could only watch as his prized parts disappeared without even leaving ashes behind.

At this point the scream had alerted others in the camp. As one of the bandits from the other rooms hurried into the leader's room with a sword in hand, his feet left the ground only for him to look down and notice a clawed hand pierced through his body from the back.

Kayn's Dragon Aura continued to push down on the leader's body keeping him in place. The leader could feel the anger being exuded through this aura. The killing intent was so high that it was almost palpable to him.

'This monster must have killed hundreds if not thousands of people!' He thought.

Other bandits started to enter the room one after the other to see what all the screams were about only to be met with the black draconic humanoid form of Kayn.

He wasn't in control anymore and it seemed this spell or whatever it was had activated automatically. He was once again like a passenger in his own body, but at least this time he was able to fully watch and influence his own actions to an extent.

Kayn kept himself away from the bed and fought constantly with the bandits, which seemed there was no ending of entering the room. What he assumed was a spell had formed a hand where his missing one should be and all he was using to fight was his body.

The claws that formed were sharp enough to slice open the flesh of these humans with ease and only the few people who had a mana core could even approach Kayn let alone get a hit on him.

Kayn's bloodlust seemed to be satiated little by little with each kill of the bandits and slavers. With each kill his control was returning to him and his mind calmed down. When the only ones left alive amongst the carnage in the room were Kayn, Kinzie, and the leader, Kayn was almost back to his normal state.

With a simple wave of his hand the man's chest was gouged open. He didn't have full control yet and the power he was feeling was odd, but before it could completely disappear, Kayn's finger pointed at the wound on the leader and after snapping black flames ignited on the spot.

The man started rolling on the floor in agony as the flames burnt away at his insides and decayed him from the inside out. It was only when his screams stopped that Kayn's anger dissipated and the draconic form began to fade away.

Kayn looked down at his body only to see his shirt and tunic were shredded and that blood was dripping from his arms, chest, and legs. Thinking back, he realized that while he was fighting, he felt no pain and that it seemed that he was only focusing on offense and with no regard to defense. He didn't block a single attack and this was the result of being hit by a few 1st and even a 2nd stage magic warriors with enchanted weapons.

Luckily his head hadn't been hit and could feel that a mask was still on him, but when he looked over to Kinzie, he could tell her state was less than optimal as she seemed to be passed out. Kayn hobbled over to the bed in order to check her condition only to notice her skin was extremely red and she felt hot to the touch.

'Sigh, on top of all the wounds they inflicted, she was even drugged? Before I can clear these toxins though, I need to close her wounds, I can reattach things later, but if she loses anymore blood, she'll die. I'll need to get some fluids into her as well before I can cleanse the toxins. This is going to be such a pain in the ass.'

Luckily Kinzie was still unconscious, so Kayn began his work without having to explain anything. However, he hoped that she continued being out of it, since if she woke up and noticed it was "Shin" using healing spells on her, how was he going to explain that?

He was having a hard time thinking of excuses anyway, but figured he could chalk it up to healing potions if an explanation was required.

Unfortunately for Kayn, things don't always go as planned as Kinzie opened her eyes while he was in the middle of closing the wounds on her arms.

'Shit.'