Chapter 320: CH.316 Returning the Illegal Slaves Home

Today was the day. The day we return the illegal slaves home. 

It has been 15 days since we discovered that operation and freed the slaves, but because of diplomatic problems, I couldn’t just immediately return all of them to where they live. 

… and because we needed mapping for where they live and so forth. And I’m decently sure Duke Burch sent some sort of letters to the countries the slaves originated from, apologizing for the situation and saying that the slaves would be returned at this time.

 

Out of the seventeen slaves, of course four were now with me, working at HomeBase. Another three were hired by Duke Burch and three more are trying their luck working independently as adventurers/something else. The last seven were the ones we were going to return home today. That included the three elves, two foxfolk, a horsefolk and a dogfolk. All of them were female, as Karl was the only male of all of the illegal slaves.

 

Now for their return address, yes that does sound like they are mail, what of it? The elves were all from the same elf village, so that was going to be an easy return. One of the foxfolk and the dogfolk were also from the same town, so that was another stop. And then the horsefolk and the other foxfolk were from places of their own, so that was two more stops, for a total of four. 

 

And I know you might think that is a one day job, and you would be correct. If we used my speedrunning style of getting stuff done. But because diplomatic relationships were involved in this operation, Duke Burch was making sure we did everything correctly. Especially as some United States faction has been gaining control of the small countries to the north, unifying them under one power. While not all of the small countries to the north had joined, a lot of them already had. And Duke Burch saw it only as a matter of time until the rest would join, either willingly, or by force, so he didn’t want to get into diplomatic trouble with the countries.

 

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On day one of the operation, we were taking the elves home. There were three of them, so they were seen as a priority.

I was of course in charge of transport, but I was also seen as an agent of the System/the Goddess, due to me having the System Support. From my crew, other than me, I had both Alice and Lua with me, and I also took Einar and Eline with us. I thought about bringing Ria, but I decided to leave her to be in charge of HomeBase with Agunan instead. And I do want to start bringing the others to cool places, even if Ria is the OG. And yes, Lua did have to take a break from her teaching job, but having a few days off is a good thing.

Also, the Duke came with us, and he had with him his own crew of people. I did tell him to keep it small, as there was a limited amount of space on my airship, so he only had four people with him, matching the size of my crew. Those four people consisted of two civil officers and two guards.

Mariina was also with us, as she was someone capable of representing the Sage’s tower. And as the tower was a part of the Hero’s country, it was respected even in the northern countries, so she decided to come along.

 

So all of us, with the three elves, we had a total of fourteen people on board.

As for our ride, we were in B.E.S. Covered Core. I picked Covered Core, as it has the largest inside space out of all of my B.E.S. monsters.