Chapter 9 Auctions

They were left in an iron cage, hungry and waiting to be sold. Rick knew he had missed two meals. He tried to call out to his enchanter, Ash, but there was a magical barrier here, and he couldn't get in touch with Ash.

After a while, someone came to feed them, and the food was rotten and probably rotten to the point of poison. The people who came to feed them also looked like slaves, they were diligent with their hands and feet, but they kept their necks hunched and did not dare to face anything. It looks like a whip will come when you look up.

Observing the other cages, it is clear that the "source" is not only the fisherman. He saw that there were small children, some of whom had apparently been taken by the family. This place is not just a place for looting, it is a slave market.

After some more time, there were a lot of people with long forks who kicked them out of their cages and took them to another large room. These people were supposed to be slaves too, and Serian wanted to reason with them, but it was useless. It's not just a matter of language barriers, these people look at them the same way the lop-eared boss looks at them. It quickly became clear to him that these people were looking at them in this way so that they would not fall into the same situation.

The room they were taken to was supposed to be a performance hall, which had a large stage and could seat thousands of people under the stage. The stage is new, and so are the chairs. The new and exaggerated décor does not match the remaining décor of the room. They used a lot of curtains to cover the traces of time, and the curtains were embroidered with many patterns of profligacy, such as pouring wine into a bath and soaking in it, and swimming in a mountain of gold coins.

The audience was full. They were all dressed in expensive clothes, wearing masks, and drinking cocktails served on site. It was unclear if the feathers on their heads were attached to the masks or if they had grown on their heads.

Captain Felena was the first of them to be pulled onto the stage. Several spotlights were shining on her, so bright that she couldn't open her eyes. Rick, Seren, and Bait Chang'an Patrick were left behind the scenes, watched by three fork-wielding slaves, and watched as she was auctioned off.

The host of the auction was the lop-eared boss, who sang and danced on the stage in a language that Xi Ke did not understand, and incited the guests to pay for it. Before Felena came to power, the atmosphere was still very lively, but as soon as they saw the race of Captain Ferena, their reaction became cold.

The lop-eared boss had an idea, pushed Ferena to the front of the stage, and pointed at her breasts and shouted. The atmosphere in the audience was a little hotter, and the lop-eared boss grinned widely, grabbed Captain Ferena's blouse, and planned to strip her clothes off.

Captain Felena only used her feet, quickly and unbeatably tripped first and then kicked, causing the lop-eared boss to fall off the stage!

There was a burst of laughter from the audience.

The lop-eared boss's face turned red, and he pulled the fur back from his head, pointing at Felena and swearing.

The fork-wielding slaves who had been staring at the Cyk were furious as if they had been insulted, and planned to go over to teach the navigator Felena a lesson. They had just turned around and taken the first step, but Rick and Seren didn't talk about it first, and they both started at the same time. Seren knocked one out with a slap on the head, and Rick tripped over one and kicked him so hard that he couldn't stand up.

The lop-eared boss cursed even louder. He kept repeating the same swear words, and with just those few sounds, Xike was about to learn.

Rick sighed and said, "The mages of Etharo won't listen. He stepped back and distanced himself from a forked slave in Zuihou, and Seren swooped up from the side, kicking the man right in the head with a roundabout kick that sent him tumbling out and rolling several times.

"The knights of Atharus too. 」

Rick sat down and cut the rope from his hand with the tip of his fork that had fallen to the ground. His hand cut several wounds, and finally cut it open. Then he helped Seren untie herself.

Strangely, during their rebellion, no other guards came to deal with them. The slaves guarding the door even ran out of the door of the venue. They didn't look like they were fleeing, but more like something worse than a commodity rebellion.

Captain Felena ran towards the Syk and the others, jumped off the stage to join them. Xi Ke felt that there seemed to be some huge creature behind him, and stomped his foot heavily, causing the floor to shake and cause a gust of wind, and then Chang Anpait, the bait with his hands moving freely, ran into Xi Ke's line of sight and helped the navigator Felena loosen his binding.

Several bloodied slaves ran into the venue from outside, shouting what seemed urgent. The guests in the audience panicked when they heard this, and they all stood up and rushed outside. The cocktail glass becomes a tool to remove obstacles, to be smashed on someone's head.

The lop-eared boss crawled along the edge of the stage, trying to avoid attracting attention, but Captain Felena had no intention of letting him go. Captain Felena grabbed the lop boss by the collar and lifted him up, and with her other hand lit a magic flame on the lop boss's feet.

"What's going on now?" Captain Felena squinted at the lop-eared boss.

The lop-eared boss just kept kicking and struggling: "Don't, let me go, help!"

Some of the guests who had escaped through the gate had stab wounds and rushed in through the gate. They squeezed as hard as they could, rushing past them and into the background. The whole hall was filled with screaming and fleeing people, and there was a lot of momentum in the herd of seasonal migrations.

There were also many people who closed the doors and blocked them with chairs and tables.

"Someone must have come to smash the field. Rick said.

Rick noticed that the lop-eared boss's legs were consumed by tongues of fire, but his pants were not burned, and he should not have been injured. He was about to talk to Captain Felena to check what was on the lop-eared boss, when the blocked door exploded, and the door panel, along with the tables and chairs, was all charred and blackened, and flew out with flames, and Zuihou fell to the ground, emitting white smoke.

Arrows of light of various colors and fireballs burst through the smoke of the explosion and struck in. After clearing the field, about twenty people dressed in Ataro-style costumes rushed in. They took control of the scene. Zuihou enters a man wearing a black captain's hat and a gray mage robe. He wasn't very tall, but as soon as he walked in, he was the only focus of attention. He has a strong sense of majesty and presence, he just walks steadily, but it's hard to ignore him without opening his mouth. Rick guessed he was about forty years old, but he looked like he was fifty or sixty years old. On his resolute face, there were two eyes as black as night, and the whites of the eyes were almost ignored because the eyes were so intense. He had insolent scars on the sides of his mouth and eyebrows.

"Ah, I found you, Big Boss. The man spoke in a tone that paused from time to time, in a tone that was pretending to be sincere, but was actually provocative. His voice was low and not loud, but he could hear it clearly in the noise. He walked over with open hands as if he were hugging the preparatory position. His face was expressionless, except for a hostile smile in his eyes. He looked at the lop-eared boss who was grasping by Navigator Felena, and said, "After seven years of touching goodbye, I haven't forgotten your appearance for a day. Why don't you show that you miss me a little? I've learned many new spells, including the one you used to entertain my friend. 」

The lop-eared boss trembled violently, and his teeth kept hitting and making a ticking sound.

"Disobedient slaves must die, what about disobedient bosses?" The man in the captain's hat walked up to them, the corners of his mouth curled slightly. With his hand, he tore off the fur from the lop boss's neck, pulled off a necklace, and roared, "This is my ship's merchandise!"

That necklace is a talisman that protects the lop boss from spells. Without the necklace, the stench of burning flesh and blood immediately permeated. The lop-eared boss screams and tries to slap out the flames on his legs with his hands, but this action has no effect on the magic flames.

"Are you Miss Ferena?" asked Captain Felena respectfully as the man in the captain's hat.

Captain Felena had been on the fishing boat for a long time, and suddenly she was not used to it, and replied in surprise, "I am." 」

"Please wait a minute, wait a moment and leave with me. The man in the captain's hat turned to the three of them, "Companions, please come along, too." Now," he turned his gaze to the lop-eared boss, reached out and grabbed the lop-eared boss's neck, and carried him to his side, "I beg you not to look at what is going to happen next. This is a private matter between me and my boss, and I don't need the lady to witness the process. 」

Captain Felena was a little surprised that she was called a lady, but she obediently kept her head away.

Syke and Seren also obediently turned their heads away from looking. Rick heard the tiniest "hiss" of cutting through the air, and then he couldn't hear any movement from the lop-eared boss again. The man in the captain's hat set up a silence range, and his incantation turned into a barely audible whisper.

After a few minutes, the man in the captain's hat exhaled and said, "Alright, everyone, please follow me out. With a customary gesture that only a mage from a top-notch mage school would have, he flicked his sleeve out with a crisp "snap" and led a large number of his subordinates and Xi Ke towards the gate.

During this time, these people have killed all the guests who did not succeed in escaping.

Xi Ke obediently didn't peek at the fate of the lop-eared boss, and avoided that place when he left. However, the bait Chang'an Pat saw from the beginning to the end, and his mouth couldn't be closed when he ran away, and it was always half-open.

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The man in the captain's hat was called "Lord Naringe" by his subordinates. He told his men to throw two staves to Rick and Chief Navigator Ferena. As they ran, Captain Naringe smiled at Seren, and said in standard Ethero, "I haven't seen a knight in years. 」

Each shijie has a mage, but it is seen as a difference between pretending to be a god or seeking truth from facts. Knights are unique to Ataro, and knights are not as motivated to run to other shijie as mages, so it is impossible to see knights here. Both the lop-eared boss and the green-skinned pirate boss thought that Seren was a mage in order to use Liliang.

Captain Naringer must be an Ethero to know about the knights.

Rick examined the staff in his hand. The staff was forty centimeters long, made of loose and fragile wood, as if it had only been smoothed out at the ends and carved with a row of spell symbols. This is a throwaway-and-go consumable.

He shoved the staff to the bait Chang Anpat, and took the fork he used to cut the rope on his hand. It was stained with his blood. He recited the mantra in Soni, and the gray flames engulfed the fork before retreating. The fork turned a dull black. Until the blackness fades, Rick can use it instead of the Sacrificial Knife.