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Chapter 42 : Raid
🕑 Added 2022-05-25 06:05:40 +0000 UTCTL:SummerPeanut
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“Two hundred and fifty gold pieces!” “Three hundred gold coins!” “320 gold coins!”
This steep price rise is because the organizers are selling three people at once.
I wonder if the buyers know what they are doing...
Then the man with his eyes covered who had just asked the organizers a question.
“A blonde-haired and gold-eyed boy, a silver-haired girl, and an elf child, ten white gold coins for just these three! I don’t need the trash!”
Or so he said. One billion yen for us three kids... What kind of lolicon are you...
Then there were oohs and aahs from the entire audience.
Dames, who has the mental strength of steel, couldn't stand up anymore.
The three of us were taken to a man who was hiding his eyes.
I had a question I really wanted to ask him, so I asked him.
“What are you going to do with us?”
“That's not the kind of language a slave should use with his master. I'm going to educate you thoroughly and you can look forward to it.”
I was a fool to think that he might be even a slightly good person.
It happened as the man with hidden eyes was preparing ten white gold coins.
A merchant I had met in the neighboring town over burst into the auction room with his followers in tow.
“The elf child belongs to me! You've got a lot of nerve stealing from this Lord Gedo*1! Seller, get out hereeeee!”
Were these slave traders and merchants a different group?
It's complicated. Anyway, Gedo, the merchant, also called Misha, whom he kidnapped, his thing.
Thanks to the intrusion of Gedo and the others, the hall was in chaos.
I thought the slaves would take advantage of this and run away but no one ran away.
“Why don't you run away while you still can?”
I asked the slave who was successfully bidded.
“Oh, we became slaves of our own volition. There doesn’t seem to be any problem with my future master, so I'm fine with it. Besides, it is quite an honor for a slave to be put up for auction. The treatment is way better than being sold on the slave market, were you all forcefully kidnapped? If so, you might as well run away but this venue has pretty well-skilled guards, so it would be better to give up for your own sake.”
“I understand. Thank you very much for your kind words of advice. I'm sorry, but can I ask you one more thing? I think you are quite strong but is there someone here who is more skilled than you?”
“You're quite the sharp guy. I think I have the power of a lower C-class adventurer, but there should be two B-class adventurers among the guys guarding this place because the difference in power between a C-level adventurer and a B-level adventurer is absolute.”
There are two above me?
I used to consider myself about a B-class adventurer but after my fight with hellsnake, I re-evaluated myself as a C-class adventurer.
A B-class adventurer is capable of defeating a hellsnake by himself.
I stood in front of Clarice and Misha, alert and ready for battle at any moment.
The man with the covered eyes, his cronies, and the organizers surrounded us to protect us from Gedo.
Gedo turned six of his own men on us.
“Gedo's ace party, the Abyss*2, is here! There are two B-class adventurers, we can't take them on alone! Call the reinforcements quickly!”
That's what the guys protecting us said.
And they were right.
Before anyone knew it, the man with covered eyes who had bidden for us was gone.
And when the guards around us were defeated, the ace party’s six members from the organizer's side arrived.
“Long time no see, ‘Abyss’, have you come to be killed by us ‘Moonlit Dark Night’?”
“Let’s skip the banter, today is the day we kill you!”
A fierce battle began.
As soon as the fight started I asked to the both behind me
“Is there anyone here that Misha knows?”
“No.”
“Clarice, is there the person that used the strange magic you said?”
“Yes. See that wizard-looking guy from Moonlit Dark Night with the black cloak? That's him.”
I immediately appraised him.
Name: Waltz Vistaria
Title: -
Status: Human, commoner.
Condition: Good.
Age: 28 years old.
Level: 26
HP: 50/50
MP: 78/95
Strength: 12
Agility: 18
Magic: 35
Dexterity: 22
Endurance: 18
Luck: 1
Special Ability: Fire Magic (Lv4/D)
Special Ability: Wind Magic (Lv3/D)
Special Ability: Sleep magic(Lv1/G)
His status is a little above Zeke's. There is a special ability called ‘Sleep Magic’.
Perhaps this is an acquired skill?
How did he learn it? It might be useful to learn Lightning magic.
I would love to catch him and ask him.
The battle is going in favor of the Moonlit Dark Night.
Sleep magic showed its effectiveness at critical points.
Whenever the party on the side of Abyss is put to sleep by hypnosis, one of them has to go to wake them up, so the side of Abyss is inevitably short of hands.
I decided to wait and see what would happen if the Moonlit Dark Night continued to prevail.
After all, there was another party on Gedo’s side.
It took a few minutes for Moonlit Dark Night to destroy the party of Abyss.
But just as they were about to put an end to it, they were interrupted from the Gedo side.
A swordsman-like man came from Gedo's place, and in the meantime, the members of Abyss party were defeated.
“Fuck, the boss monkey has come out of its woodwork...”
“It's been a long time, Origo. I'm glad you've been taking care of our lil’ Abyss. I'll take care of you too, so all of you come at me.”
The man's pressure was tremendous.
The leader of the Moonlit Dark Night, a man named Origo, was quite intimidated.
Origo is also strong, and in terms of status, he had more muscle power, agility, and endurance than me, but I have more magic power and dexterity than him.
But the man who just appeared in front of me is even stronger than Origo.
Name: Curus Wafers.
Title: -
Status: Human, commoner.
Condition: Good
Age: 32 years old
Level: 41
HP: 128/128
MP: 52/52
Strength: 58
Agility: 60
Magic: 15
Dexterity: 35
Endurance: 62
Luck: 1
Special Ability: Swordsmanship(Lv7/C)
Special Ability: Water Magic(Lv2/E)
So this is a B-class adventurer...
The current me can't compete in close combat at all.
But even though he's this strong, he doesn't have any equipment.
The only thing he had was a sword with a value of C.
Name: Blade of Ice
Attack: 12
Special: Magic +1
Value: C
Details: A sword made of mithril silver. If you put magic power into the sword, the tip of the sword freezes when you swing it.
I guess that means I'm a lucky guy after all.
But my equipment isn't dropping at all though.
The Moonlit Dark Night was not able to match Curus at all despite the fact that they went all out on the offensive.
Sleep magic is useless if it doesn't hit.
Within a few minutes, they were all rendered incapable of combat.
But Curus let the members of the Moonlit Dark Night escape on purpose.
“Come on, tuck your tail between your legs and get out of here. I won't take your life. My real opponent is not you.”
“Damn you, Curus! You always strut with so much composure. You’ll only be able to bask on this today!”
With that said, Moonlit Dark Night fled.
Curus walked toward Misha.
I stood in front of Misha and held my sword in front of Curus.
“Hey, I'm not in the mood to pick on kids. Get down obediently.”
Curus tried to brush my sword away as he said that but I caught him firmly with my sword.
Curus looked at me with a surprised look on his face.
“Who the hell are you? There's no way you can take my sword, no matter how much I held back my strength.”
I silently held up my sword.
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TL’s note:
- I’m not 100% sure but his name is probably a katakana play on the japanese word brute/fiend/heresy.
- Abyss or Naraku. 奈落.
- Darkness of Moonlit Night or Moonlit Dark Night or Tsukiyo no Yami. 月夜の闇.
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Dames, oh Dames...
