Chapter 9: Captives

I open my eyes under the sun's rays.

I start to climb down the tree where I slept by jumping across the branches. When I am on the ground, I strengthen my body to reinforce my body with mana, which was now second nature to me. I could only take in approximately 20% of what I could while just meditating at this time, but I couldn't complain.

Imbuing your body had one drawback was that it couldn't take the place of developing your Lucius. I must completely concentrate on gathering mana from my body and the environment in order to gradually remove the impurities from my Lucius in order to advance. I noticed that the amount of mana I could store inside rose dramatically after training even while the size stays the same, I assume the purity makes it possible to store more mana.

Even while the size stays the same, I assume the purity makes it possible to store more mana.

What I was looking for wasn’t a way out but more so for any signs of human, after about ten minutes of walking, I felt that something was off, I looked around and there was a trunk and I could hear noises from there.

 I concealed myself behind the trunk entirely, shut my eyes, and infused mana into my ears.

"Someone stop her! She's going to draw interest!

*THUD*

“Fast. Put her in the back of the carriage. We’re only a few days away from the mountain range. We’ll be safer then. Don’t relax and keep moving.”

“Hey, Boss? How much do ya imagine she’ll sell for? Elf girls go for a lot, don’t they? Hehe, she’s a kid too so a virgin at that! I bet she’ll fetch us a lot of cash, huh!”

Slave traders!

I feel my heart pumping faster, what should I do?

I take a peek inside the carriage and see 6 children, they are elfes, long ears spiked from their heads.

3 adults are armed... Could I beat some people that are the triple of me? They are probably stronger than those henchmen that had Clemence.

I imbue my legs with mana and silently jump in a short three.

If I need to kill them to free those children then I need to be cautious.

I'll look around trying to imagine something that can be used as a diversion.

I grip one of the branches of the three and throw it behind the trunk.

"Huh, what was that sound?" One of the three says.

"Go check what happened, fast! We can't let even one of those kids escape.

One of them starts running behind the track.

"Who made that soun--" he locks his gaze with me.

I hastily dashed forward and posed my hand in his face.

"Burn," I say without even feeling a bit of resentment.

"Aghhh!!" He starts screaming in agony, and his dagger falls from him, Quickly taking the dagger I prepare for the other slave traders.

"What happened?!" They suddenly reach behind the trunk.

"Hel--!" I stick the dagger in his throat before he could finish his sentence.

"You little shit!" One of the remaining slave traders run up to me with his sword, then my eyes see that his sword had mana imbued.

*You can imbue objects too?*

I make the ground below us water so that I could block him

Fireballs flew on him but his companion blocked them with water too.

Though, they forgot that I still had a weapon with me.

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I throw the dagger in the head of the one who blocked my attacks.

"Giulius!" The bandit who remained alive said, calling the name of the dead bandit.

I quickly dash and kick the stomach of the bandit.

"Guh!" 

"This is what you get for kidnapping those children." I say to him locking gazes.

His expression from one of terror suddenly becomes one of mocking.

"Hah-hahah, y-you lowered your guard!" the bandit exclaimed before I noticed that he skew me with his weapon inside my stomach.

"Tsk, bastard!" I say before drowning him in the water.

I sit on my butt for some time pressing my right hand on the point where his sword sliced me.

Then the elfes children noticed that the trunk stopped and they moved the curtain.

They got out of the trunk and approached me, I was right, there are around 6 children.

I smile at them, happy that I saved those children from their horrible fate.

Soon, they started blabbering something in an unknown language.

I did read that the races in this world had different languages, the human language was not the only one.

An elf with gorgeous blond hair that shimmers with the rays of the sun, poses her hands on my injury.

I stare at her not understanding what she is doing.

A green light appeared from her hands it was similar to the one that teleported me here.

"Huh?" I murmured while my injury was slowly making less pain each second passed.

My wound was healing, I was looking dumfound at the girl who was healing me.

She only smiled back at me.

After some minutes it was almost as if there was no injury in my body.

After I got on my feet I started thinking about how I can get out of the forest? Though was it safe for me to go out of here after what happened with that noble? I didn't conceal my identity in any way.

Suddenly the elf with blond hair took my hand and with her other hand, she tried to make me understand that she wanted me to follow her.

All the elfes were watching me with thankfulness.

I had no other choice but to move along with them.

Some time passed and I think we were all hungry, it was night time and even if I can't understand their language it was understandable that we were feeling the same thing.

They started taking some fruits that were in some bushes that had a yellow color.

The fruits have the form of spheres and their color is blue.

One of the elfes offers me a bunch of these I take them with open hands and start tasting them.

I taste one of them and my eyes go wide with joy, they are even better than those fruits I found before.

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