Chapter 235: The Long Night
No matter how many wonderful abilities you have, even the Children of the Abyss will not be able to do anything effective against enemies a hundred times their own unless they have the ability to stand in front of enemies and make them blind, commonly known as "stealth", but in fact close to stealth, like the agility class in fantasy games.
In fact, Mephistopheles had studied the so-called "stealth" technique when he was a lord. The magical Shadow Curtain allows him to hide from sight in the forest at night, and the unique environment and terrain allow him to simulate a similar effect of "stealth", but if he wants to move freely through a camp full of campfires, even the illusionist Vangar royal family can only display optical camouflage that can deceive multiple people at the same time in full view of the master of visual deception.
Without the ability to fly as well as the mid-to-high-level Winged Demons, even if the Children of the Abyss were fully sure to break the ban on the prisoner car, they would not be able to break through the encirclement of the human slave catchers unharmed. What's more, he has now inexplicably taken on the responsibility given by the gods, since he is alone and he is not sure enough, it is better to consider the long term while considering the safety of the other three people in the same car.
It is still very difficult for Mephistopheles to rely on his own ability to take the initiative to forcibly "create" a path of freedom under the control of humans, since he cannot create a "flaw" to escape in the situation of being a prisoner, so it is the only choice for the children of the abyss to obtain as much information as possible and find the "flaws" and "loopholes" that exist in the slave trap itself.
First of all, he needs to figure out where the team is currently in the wasteland, and the first thing he needs to think about before he gets free is where he should choose to go after he gets free.
So the Children of the Abyss set their sights on the three orc girls in the same car, and because of Nanali's start, her two companions, who were obviously not asleep, had also woken up. Regarding the ability of the "half-elf" in front of them to take the initiative to change the color of their pupils, the three of them all showed enough attention. In what most people know, the changes that take place in a short period of time are almost all magical. In other words, the half-elf in front of Yan who can freely change between gray and green with his left eye has a magical control ability that they can't understand, which is far from being as simple as the appearance of a young man who has not yet grown on the surface.
"Do you know where we are now?" "In order not to inadvertently attract the attention of other humans, the left eye of the Children of the Abyss turned back to its lifeless, godless gray, "which direction is it in the wasteland?"
The two companions who watched Nanali grow up naturally have a certain understanding of the little girl's maverick places, combined with the mysterious qualities shown by the half-elf, and Nanali's abrupt dependence on him, the two actually looked at each other very tacitly, and then saw the same surprise in each other's eyes - I'm afraid that Nanali had previously talked about "oracles" Even if it's not accurate, it's not just a simple whimsy, although it's hard to guess the age of a half-elf based on appearance, but a guy who can easily change the color of his eyes through magic and look so young looks like a genius that ordinary people can't match, even if he doesn't have the protection of divine power, right?
All orcs know that in a tribe, only battle-hardened warriors can touch the threshold of such powerful abilities as rage, and that only those favored by the beast gods can unleash a powerful power that can change their appearance, manifesting as a war totem in the mortal world by burning blood.
Regarded by all orc warriors as a powerful force in the ultimate pursuit of this life, the Burning Blood Emblem!
Changing the color of the pupils could not be compared to the power gained at the cost of life, but in the eyes of the three girls, such a special feature was enough to prove the extraordinary nature of the half-elf in front of them.
"We should be on the west side of the wasteland now, close to the human city-state......" replied the orc girl, who was of the same clan as Nanari and had a handful of black hair on the tips of her brown-red outer ears.
"Are you already close to the human city-state......" Although this conclusion made the Children of the Abyss feel a little unhappy, he was actually mentally prepared for this. If it weren't for the fact that they had already approached the sphere of influence controlled by the human city-state, a hundred-person human adventurer probably wouldn't have had the guts to capture orc slaves so recklessly.
"Do you know where these slave hunters are going, or what will happen to us in the end?" Although the Children of the Abyss had heard about the human city-states, he felt that he did not know each other as well as the orcs who had been his "opponents" for many years. Mephistopheles felt that listening to the girls' thoughts might help him broaden his mind, especially since they might have picked up some useful information from the daily conversations between the slave catchers during the days he had been unconscious.
"Nanali knows~ Nanali knows!" the little girl lowered her voice and raised her hand to answer with a very excited expression, as if she was looking left and right for fear of being discovered by the bad people in the camp about to find out about this private conversation, she felt that the divine envoy seemed to be about to move seriously and save herself and her sisters from the control of the bad guys!
"If you don't show up, sir, Nanali and her sisters will be sold into human cities and become goods for human amusement!" The little girl was like a dog showing her loyalty to her master, her hands propped up in front of her, and her tail behind her was waging excitedly, almost sticking out her tongue.
While the Children of the Abyss would love to argue that even being here may not be able to change the fate of you and your sisters, looking at the heartless orc girl with no sense of urgency, Mephistopheles wonders if she knows what "goods for fun" really means.
"Sir, are you going to take Nainari and her sisters to teach these bad guys a lesson now!?" The little orc girl with her tail dangling and the son of the abyss a little dizzy seemed to be in a hurry to see the wonderful drama of "God Makes Great War against the Abominable Villains".
Mephistopheles had no countermeasures against Nainali's naïve attributes, but now that he had accepted the assignment of the goddess and the Lord of Yellow Springs, the Children of the Abyss still decided to protect them as much as he could, although he didn't have a clue at all, and he didn't even have a good grasp of his own fate, but he could still do it if he gave the little girl in front of him a little confidence that he could do it.
Less than five Mana's life magic gathered in the right hand of the Children of the Abyss, and with a low, muffled thud, Mephistopheles' hand knife left a visible crack in the thick wooden pole that made up the prisoner cart.
The slave trap cart was made of dry, tough chestnut wood and steel spikes by skilled carpenters, and its hardness was no less than that of a very precious wrought iron weapon for orcs, and because of this, Mephistopheles's faint display of strength made the three orc girls almost dazzle. Among them, Nanali is more like she has discovered something very magical.
"Sir, are you actually a warrior, and you can knock down a few of those villains in the camp with one punch!?" the little girl pulled the "magical" right hand of the son of the abyss and rubbed it carefully and in amazement, unlike the thick bones and rough skin palms of the warriors, the hands of the gods were more delicate than the weathered warriors' hands.
"No...... Actually, I'm a very famous bard in the eastern part of the continent!" Faced with an orc girl who was so optimistic that it was almost unreasonable, the children of the abyss chose to make a harmless joke.
"Oh~!, that's what it looks like!" Nanali whispered in admiration, obviously completely convinced by the words of the Divine Envoy. And the two companions beside her also showed slightly reassuring expressions, although the poets who pay attention to their appearance are not as tall and strong as the warriors who can give people a direct sense of security, but most of the famous poets are delicate and well-traveled, maybe those big people in the human city-state will know him?
In any case, the hand revealed by the Children of the Abyss has confirmed that he is not a pampered young noble master whose abilities are completely inconsistent with his identity, at least they are not powerless to resist when they may be bullied by humans in the future.
The wolf girl, who had been silent all along, lowered her head as if she was considering something, and then when she looked up, she unexpectedly said a really useful message for the children of the abyss: "They will arrive at the destination of their trip by the night after tomorrow." ”
"But haven't you seen the human village yet?, have they deliberately avoided the villages on the road?"
"In order to avoid the slave trade tax levied by the city-state owners, most of the slave catchers who were of average size and did not have a deep aristocratic background now chose to trade their 'goods' in settlements close to the city-states in the wasteland. The long-term camps formed outside the city-state for profit gradually attracted many slave catchers and merchants, and although the prices and types of 'goods' were not comparable to those in the cities where the slave trade was developed, they were embraced by many small merchants with no background because they avoided the heavy taxes in the trade. The team's destination was such a wild market that had flourished because of the slave trade. ”
The Children of the Abyss thought that the werewolf girl's words should still be very credible, but he always felt that there was a certain sense of abruptness in them that he felt very subtle.
"I don't mean anything else...... Just want to know how you know so clearly about the purpose of this group of humans. Mephistopheles believed that most orcs knew and guarded against the human slave hunting team, but the wolf girl in front of her seemed to know more than the usual situation, and he thought that if it wasn't for the fact that he had deliberately understood or even investigated this information, ordinary people would not know about these things in such detail.
However, the werewolf girl just glanced at the child of the abyss coldly, and continued to keep her silent, not answering his question.
The four of them, who had already started to communicate normally, spent the long night in an embarrassing atmosphere. Thank you for the vast amount of rewards in Muzi~