“What?”
Cardamite threw himself away laughing.
“It is your death.”
Suddenly!
With a single blow, the magic swordsman’s body was split lengthwise from shoulder to side. The sturdy armor made from a mixture of adamantium and imbued with powerful magical protection was torn apart by a single blow. The magic swordsman splits left and right and rolls around on the floor without even being able to scream.
“Ugh, hehehe!”
One of the magic swordsmen standing behind let out a strange groan of fear. At that moment, Maloid and Habatu also threw themselves away. Scattering their blade auras, the three auror users began firing brutal slashes at the magic swordsmen.
The knights of the Principality of Chatan, their equipment was clearly of high quality and expensive.
How expensive is it? … The price of one of the barding Eldrad accessories used by Eusus?
In the first place, even if a magic swordsman flies and crawls, he is only a magic swordsman. The Golden Knight, renowned as the continent’s strongest magic swordsman, is at the level of an Auror user, but their level is not even close to the Golden Knight’s feet. On the other hand, there are as many as three proper Auror users here.
It wasn’t even a match.
In less than a minute, all of Chatan’s magic swordsmen were lying in a pool of blood. Unlike mercenaries, these guys were not particularly good to their slaves and even killed their colleagues. There was no reason to keep him alive.
As the magic swordsmen fell helplessly, the morale of the mercenaries plummeted to the bottom.
“Ugh… … .”
“Even the knights suffered… … .”
The mercenaries retreated one by one. It was no longer surprising that dwarves and orcs used aurors. I heard that there are a lot of people like that in the country of Antares.
But why would you end up meeting such people? It was time for all the mercenaries to curse their unlucky son.
Relhad shouted from the tree.
“Surrender!”
The mercenaries looked at each other hesitantly. Relhad shouted again.
“Or if you want to run away, run away! “I’m not chasing you!”
Then the mercenaries’ expressions changed.
As a knight, running away would be more humiliating than surrendering, but from a mercenary’s perspective, surrender and running away have quite different meanings. Surrendering is an irresponsible act of stepping away from work, but running away is an act of choice that one has no choice but to run out of strength despite one’s best efforts.
Relhard, who knew this, shouted at the right time, and the mercenaries began to run away one by one, as if they had been waiting. Soon, there was no one left here except merchants and slaves of different races.
Grad and the other slave traders were swearing in the carriage.
“You guys! “How much did I give you guys?”
“Irresponsible bastards!”
“Can’t I come back right away!”
Black shadows cover the faces of the shouting merchants. They were the shadows of Orc warriors with cold flames in their eyes. The merchants fell like aspen trees as they saw the orcs slowly approaching.
“Ugh… … .”
A moment later, a desperate scream came from inside the carriage.
“Ugh!”
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Relhad came down from the tree, leading the elves. As expected of those living in the World Tree, their wood-climbing skills were unusual. Landing on the ground as easily as walking on flat ground, Relhad looked around.
Except for the injured mercenaries, there were no longer any living humans there. As usual, several orcs and dwarves quickly boarded the carriage. What this upper procession was transporting was not only slaves of different races. There was also a considerable amount of expensive valuables and specialty products.
Maloid opened his mouth.
“Except for food, everything else is as usual?”
“exactly. “As usual.”
Relhard nodded.
Among the items they had raided and taken from the merchants, all valuables except food were being distributed to nearby poor human villages.
Of course, this was not done out of pity for people living in poverty. To be honest, they are not the same compatriots, and no matter how unrelated they are, they are of the same race as the humans who were treated as slaves, but I do not feel sorry for them just because they are starving. At that point, it’s not merciful, it’s closer to being heartless.
It was just that I couldn’t pass through Daiman Terminal with all that luggage.
The location of Daiman Terminal is in the middle of a remote area. Even if you are escorted by Auror users and the best members of their clan, it is a rough terrain where damage from monsters frequently occurs during movement. It is definitely not an easy place to leisurely drag a cart. Moreover, since it had to be kept secret, it was impossible to pave the way by subduing nearby monsters.
“You can’t take it with you anyway, so it’s better to at least buy your favor like this.”
Cardamite nodded as he looked at them unpacking and repacking. In fact, the Phrygian Liberation Corps was extremely popular among the poor people around the Setalad Mountains.
As the Principality of Chatan values gold as its greatest value, the wealth gap was also the highest on the continent. In other countries, the living standards of nobles, commoners, and serfs were extremely high, but in the Principality of Chatan, it was especially bad. There was even a joke going around that it would be better to be an orc slave than to become a poor person in the Principality of Chatan.
Thanks to the generous distribution of valuables, orcs, dwarves, and elves were no longer slave races to the commoners near Settellad. They were like saints who looked after them. And the rumor was quietly spreading to other regions.
Maloid smiled bitterly.
“It pricks my conscience a little, but… … “What about a saint?”
“Well, it doesn’t matter, right? Anyway, the results are good.”
Relhad grinned. Ha Datus tilted his head.
“You’re telling me that you like it so much when I give you something you can’t eat? “Humans are truly amazing.”
In the meantime, most of the luggage on the wagon had been repacked. It had been three months since the Phrygian Liberation Corps had been active, and except for a brief break in the middle of a fight that resulted in a war, they were always moving hand in hand. Everyone was preparing to distribute it to nearby human villages with familiar hands.
Suddenly, Relhad asked Cardamite in a worried tone.
“But Cardamite, wasn’t it okay for you to be caught using it as an Auror?”
It is widely known that the different races of Antares speak Aurors. In particular, Cardamite killed the famous Auror user, Sir Tetzwald, and showed the scene to many nobles through a video crystal. The color and appearance of Aurors are quite well known.
They weren’t wearing masks for nothing. If you do something wrong, your relationship with the County of Antares will be revealed.
But Cardamite had a calm attitude.
“The Savior said, if you feel urgent, just use it. “If I insist, it’s Jangttang?”
“Is that okay?”
“He said it wouldn’t matter because he wouldn’t be able to insist anyway if he didn’t use the Auror after a while.”
“I see.”
Relhad nodded in understanding. Of course, Hadatum was still tilting his head with an expression of ‘What are you talking about?’
While the luggage on the wagon was being repacked, others were cutting the ropes of tied cross-breed slaves. Every time they were released from the ropes that were tightly tied to their necks and hands, the tied orcs, elves, and dwarves just looked around with blank expressions.
As soon as everyone was released from their restraints, Talcata shouted loudly.
“ruler! Compatriots! Let’s go to the land of the free!”
But I didn’t expect a reaction.
Although he had saved his compatriots several times so far, each time the slaves of different races responded with only a cold response. I just couldn’t understand the situation and only watched myself in fear.
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I couldn’t help it.
These people have been immersed in a life of slavery for too long.
Those who have been slaves since their parents’ parents’ parents’ generations.
‘It is difficult for such people to realize freedom right away. ‘Wasn’t I like that too?’
Talcata, who learned the Orc tradition from the Blue Bear Tribe, no longer thought of himself as Leffenhardt’s slave.
Of course, loyalty to Leffenhardt remains unchanged. Because he saved me and freed me from the bondage of slavery.
However, it was not the loyalty of a slave, but the loyalty of a free orc towards his mentor. It was a loyalty that Talcata chose and exercised of his own will. This difference may seem similar on the surface, but it is completely different.
‘Well, let’s go back to the country quickly.’
That was when Talcata turned around. Belatedly, cheers erupted from behind.
“Waaah!”
“Freedom!”
“You are no longer a slave!”
The freed slaves were embracing each other and shedding tears of joy. Orcs, elves, and dwarves all enjoy freedom to their heart’s content, stroking their freed hands and feet. They were just so thrilled that they were slow to react.
“Uh… … .”
Talcata looked at them in confusion. Not only that, Cardamite, Maloid, Relhard, and Hadatum were also showing the same expression.
All the things that had been done, all the rumors, they had finally started to have an impact on the other compatriots on the continent. The compatriots who thought nothing of it, thought that the life they were given was the best, and believed that everything was fate and obeyed, finally began to change.
Talcata blinked. At that moment, a part of her heart felt proud. For some reason, my eyes felt hot.
Their tears of joy… … .
“Mr. A, why do you want to make me cry… … .”
It was clearly the tears of those who knew freedom.
2
The front yard of Antares is bathed in strong early summer sunlight.
Standing in the middle of the courtyard, Tashid, the third champion of the Blue Bear tribe, shouted loudly.
“Russ! You are definitely my friend! “I wouldn’t waste my life for you!”
Fighting spirit rises above the bursting green muscular shoulders. In the midst of speculation, Tashid picked Yamado and Dakar. The blade, as sharp as a beast’s teeth, shone eerily in the sunlight.
“but!”
A deadly force that could not be hidden erupted from Tashid’s whole body.
“I will forget about friendship for now!”
Tashid’s eyes filled with anger and hatred turned towards Russ, the human man in front of him. An enormous amount of life was focused on him.
Ugh!
With a roar, the turquoise blade aura climbed onto Dakar’s sword body and soared as if it would pierce the sky.
Russ looked at the brilliant Blade Aura of Tarsid, emitting an unwavering light, with a stern expression.
“Tashid… … .”
In a sorrowful tone, Russ called his friend’s name. And he raised both his hands. Russ also raised his Auror.
Grumble!
The blue aura rose like a flame, entwining the knuckles of the fingers and covering both hands.
“I also have friendship for you, but… … .”
Russ lowered his posture, fluttering his Auror flames. Her whole body is tense, like a beast ready to pounce on her at any moment. Russ calmed down her gaze, her eyes filled with conviction shining.
“I can’t tolerate this anymore… … .”
Tashid’s life became even more intense.
Live! Truly an incredible life!
However, that murderous spirit was strangely avoiding Russ. Although it was clearly flowing towards Russ, the exact target was not Russ.
Tashid lashed out at the white, round object held in Russ’s left hand.
“I speak in the name of friendship! Russ! “Get rid of that cursed object now!”
It was a thing called soap… … .
“Wash up, you orc! “How on earth can you say you haven’t taken a bath for a year?”
Russ also became more abusive as he raised his Aurors even higher.
It was a little while ago.
As usual, Russ and Tashid were having fun sparring and improving their skills. And as always, after sparring, it was time to wipe off the sweat with a towel.
Suddenly Russ frowned. The towel that Tasheed used was as black as some kind of rag.
asked Russ, exasperated.
“… … Tashid, don’t be upset and answer me. “When did you take a bath?”
Tashid answered confidently.
“last summer!”
