After passing by Yoon Murasaki, I went straight back to my room and brought my clothes for the party into my bag then I put on the Crow Cloak along with the Cognitive Mask.
I then looked at the sky, the sun was starting to show signs of sunset soon.
I hurried down from the window of the room. After that I entered the hole in the wall and immediately rushed to the Umbra Vitae headquarters.
...
"Is Ravendor not yet coming?"
Mikhael who was looking at the clock nervously asked the other members. The other members did not answer because everyone also looked nervous.
It was natural for everyone to be nervous because this mission was much different from their previous missions. A big and heavy mission that they have to do and failure is not allowed.
Unlike the fight against the Thorn Spider organization, this fight was really a completely different fight.
In this battle, they had to defeat a truly trained knight, at least they equaled or even exceeded the Cid Vlevet that Zend had fought 2 months ago.
But this battle is different from before, Umbra Vitae will not focus on fighting but focus on pitting against each other.
As Sera was rethinking their plan, Zend finally arrived, instantly everyone felt relieved.
"It's been a long time, boss~"
""Right, we're almost tired of waiting!""
"Sorry, I had some business before coming here."
Zend then looked at Sera and Sera nodded her head as if she knew what Zend meant.
"Are you ready?"
Zend looked at all the members of Umbra Vitae, all the members looked at each other then looked back at Zend and nodded their heads.
"Well then, it's time for us to start our plan."
...
"Are the total number of knights and mages guarding the slave market still the same?"
"Yes. There seems to be no change, and all the knights and mages are the same as I reported."
Currently, Esie and I were talking to each other with the communication device reporting information regarding each other's status.
I then looked at Sera, Sera nodded her head.
"Esie, as I mentioned before. We're going to use 'that' plan. So I hope you can erase all traces of your existence from there before they come."
"I understand. I've almost finished everything. Where are you right now?"
"We're already inside."
"What?"
Esie sounded surprised by our existence.
"You should have told me. So when are we going to start the plan?"
"In 10 minutes."
"I see, then I'll end this call."
"Yes."
After the call was disconnected, I stared at the stage.
When I see this slave market, it reminds me of the past. These days, I can recall memories that I had strangely forgotten.
This place is a place that has important memories for me.
This place is where I was sold as a slave as well. After the collapse of the Wolfled family, Hel and I were sold as slaves here.
And it was here that I met 'She' and ended up going down this path.
Although this place reminds me of bad memories, but in this place my life in episode 1 can be colored starting from here.
I looked back at the stage and waited for the event to begin.
There was currently a slave auction going on. And I and the other members were also one of the customers.
I looked around, everyone here was wearing a mask. Looking at their clothes, it seems that most of them are nobles and rich merchants.
There are even nobles and merchants from other countries here as well.
(This kingdom is really not just a kurop but can't even protect from outside attacks.)
I know from episode 1 how cornered this kingdom is, but looking at the current situation it's a little difficult to avoid the fall of this kingdom.
Not only are the nobles extremely corrupt, arrogant, selfish, and lacking in nationalism. In addition, the merchants here also only want to make a big profit even though they sold their own kingdom.
In addition, the royal family itself is very bad at managing the kingdom. It wouldn't be strange if one day this kingdom would collapse on its own, but I don't want innocent citizens to be involved because of the stupidity of the nobles and merchants.
For this reason, I created Umbra Vitae, Umbra Vitae's task is not only to revolutionize the slums but to clean up this Kingdom.
"Frum, use the 'Camera' to record all the faces of the people here."
I then whispered to Frum to use a device that could record the images of the people here.
"Fine, but what for?"
"The people here are the ones you will kill in the future."
As I said that, everyone looked at me with a bit of fear.
While waiting for the plan time to begin, a man with a rabbit mask appeared on the stage and began to speak.
"Welcome to the 10th Slave Auction!"
(10?)
Hearing those words, all the blood in my body screamed to tear that man to pieces, but I firmly restrained my killing desire. It would be dangerous if I gave off a killing aura and got caught by the Knights.
"Let's jump to the first product, please take a look!"
(That bastard called living things things? I'll kill him later...)
Then several women in fox masks appeared carrying a cage with the contents of a half-naked man with a good body but a slave collar around his neck.
"This man is a knight of a small kingdom who rebelled against the Empire."
The man began to explain the background of the male slave. Then the Auction started and many noble ladies bid high prices.
"..."
After that the winner of the auction was a fat noblewoman who looked very excited when she found out that she got the slave male.
Seeing that look reminded me of when I was sold as a slave back then, if 'She' hadn't given me away back then, I might have ended up just like the man in front of me right now.
(But I won't let this tragedy continue.)