Chapter 4 – Teaching Feeling: Human Slavery (3)
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Yushin and his party arrived in Pamplona two days after crossing the Aquitaine Mountains.
It is said to be up for auction.
Yushin let out a deep sigh when he was told that he would sell it at the auction house where the slave trade takes place.
I thought I’d gone through all the twists and turns after coming to this world, but I never thought there would be a bottom. It was the feeling of knowing that there was another underground space under the floor that I thought was the bottom until now.
“The choker stuffed around your neck is a magic tool that turns your head into mush with just one signal. If you don’t want to become porridge, would it be better to obey me?”
Said the elf who was presumed to be managing the slaves being sold at the auction house.
Don’t even bother
Contrary to her beautiful face, her personality seemed very nasty.
Yushin and her companions touched the choker around their necks and checked their reactions. It is said to be a magic tool that the Elf nation fills its slaves with. Judging from the fact that the small choker was imbued with lightning-type magic, it didn’t seem like a lie at all.
“It’s X.”
Yushin expressed his feelings honestly.
I wish I could be a slave
Even in the Liberia elves.
If Martin Luther King, Jr., Had seen this now, he would have slammed Ohama on the foreheads of the racist elves.
“Who the hell is buying us…”
“Now that it’s like this, I want the owner who will buy me to have a sexy older sister, Elf.”
“How about an older elf like a kind mother? I will raise you for the rest of my life until I die of old age. Every time I go to bed, I sing lullabies or read fairy tales.”
Her men were already looking desperate.
Already crossed the border.
Their place is the Liberia Elf Country.
From the time they crossed the Aquitaine Mountains, the border, the chance of escape was 0%. There was no way they could cross the Aquitaine Mountains again and return to the kingdom of Valois against the elves, who were called the tribe of the forest.
‘I’m sure the elf who passed by earlier said it was Pamplona. Pamplona. I’ve heard that it’s a large city in the country of elves whose main business is the slave trade.’
Have heard
But I never dreamed that I would come to this city, or even be sold into slavery.
What kind of ‘use’ will they be sold as slaves? According to the words of the elf who had been sent to this place, the slaves sold at this auction house were not simply items for labor.
I’m a bit lucky though…
But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a bleak situation.
“Fuck.”
Kwaaaaang!!!
He swung his foot and hit the barbed wire.
However, it seemed that it was not an ordinary barbed wire, only a roaring noise was heard, and there was no sign of breaking.
About 20 personnel are currently locked in cages. It was like dealing with a beast. Confined to a large cage, the only thing left to do was to stand on stage in the order of the auction.
It got noisy outside.
The voices of countless elves. It seemed that the auction had begun.
“Very, Captain!”
“Now what about us…”
Yushin replied to the words of his subordinates.
“Pray for me to meet a good master.”
However, Yushin said so, but he constantly looked around and tried to escape.
Is there any way to escape?
Yoo-shin, who was scratching the choker around his neck, tried not to lose hope even in the situation of a slope. However, in this auction house full of elves, there was no way to do anything. They were destined to be sold, like the slaves who, in turn, were put on the auction stage.
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The Liberia elves were famous for being a country where slavery was prevalent.
Unlike the human nations that secretly enslaved, the elves openly operated slavery. It even encouraged the culture of slavery, such as directly managing slaves by the state.
This is because the Elf country had to increase its population even by enslaving slaves, and there was a significant shortage of labor in managing the country. So, all the prisoners captured in the war were turned into slaves and distributed throughout the country.
“Perhaps it will come out at the end.”
Said Billen.
At those words, Leticia, who was watching the auction house side by side with her father, opened her mouth.
“Iknow, right. I wish I could come out sooner…”
“There is no need to fret. You just have to be relaxed.”
Villen thought that among the nobles gathered like a cloud at the auction house, there was no one richer than himself.
The forest of Santander, owned by Billen, boasted of being one of the most powerful in the Elves of Liberia. Even if the aristocrats gathered at the auction house united, they felt the expectation that they would be able to win the human swordsman they were eyeing.
He intends to spend enough of his wealth to stagger the territory. Even if I had to shoulder the burden, I definitely wanted to get it.
‘But why is the Ardena warrior commander here?’
Vilen witnessed Ardena in the crowd.
Gorgeous blonde.
To the clear green eyes.
A beautiful elf with skin as white as snow on a cold winter day was looking at her stage with her arrogance.
“Isn’t that your friend over there?”
Billen asked.
Beside Ardena was a girl who seemed to be her sister.
Alone Valencia, younger sister of the Ardena warrior commander. Alone and Leticia were both attending Bria Academy. Alone’s features resembled her older sister Ardena’s, so she could tell at a glance.
“I am not a friend. By the time she graduates, she is a failing student who can’t even use a mana blade. Her father doesn’t care.”
“Hmm, it seems you haven’t been favored by Mana. Not all of her sisters are geniuses. It would be unfair if all the forests of Valencia produced only geniuses.”
Vilen nodded her head.
The forest of Valencia has already produced a genius called Ardena Valencia.
High Elf nobles joked that her eldest daughter, Ardena, possessed all of her talents and latent abilities that would be passed on to her second daughter, Alone. This is because Ardenna became the youngest warrior chief of the elves country, while her younger brother Alone was so poor at her talent that her academy was half-determined for her remuneration.
“Okay then! Let’s start the biggest auction ever! As the nobles who gratefully gathered at the auction house may have already heard, today’s auction house has received very valuable items airlifted from the Kingdom of Valois!”
The female host exclaimed.
The beauty, with her blonde hair hanging down, raised her voice as she focused the attention of her audience on the stage. In her mechanical voice, unlike the other slaves she auctioned off, there was a burning passion.
Of course, the time when an auctioneer’s heart heats up is when an expensive item goes up for auction. The host had no doubt that the human who would come on stage this time would be traded for an enormous amount of money that would greatly enhance his career.
“Come up on stage!”
“Fuck, why are you pushing and fucking when you can just say it?”
“If you disobey my orders, I will activate the choker right away!”
“Have you tried it? The crowd watching a slave’s head go to pieces on stage will be incredibly happy.”
“Kuk!”
Yushin, dressed in clean clothes, walked up to the stage.
In an instant, the crowd reacted.
The elven aristocrats watching the stage held expectations in their eyes as if something had come.
6 Examination of the speculum. A knight from the kingdom of Valois who defeated Ardena, the warrior commander. Kingdom Seven Swords. A male with black hair and black eyes, which is very rare on the continent. And pity. All of these were characteristics that greatly increased the ransom of a man named Yushin Gilead.
“Everyone, I am Yushin Gilead, a knight of the kingdom of Valois and a powerful man called the seven swords of the kingdom! Everyone is already familiar with it, so I’ll skip the explanation and start the auction right away!”
Long explanations didn’t do anything good.
The moderator led the atmosphere that became hot in an instant and started a full-scale auction.
“Then, we will start the auction with a minimum price of 1 billion acres.”
At the host’s words, several nobles made faces full of astonishment.
1 billion is the minimum price, what the hell is an auction like? The intention was to shake off the nobles who came with relatively little wealth by robbing ants.
“1.03 billion!”
“1.1 billion!”
“1.2… 1.3 billion!”
Aristocrats took number tickets.
In response, the host raised the price while catching them all with a hawk’s eye.
Yushin, who was watching the not-so-funny auction scene from the stage, murmured, “That’s more than my entire fortune.” The madness of the elven aristocrats to occupy themselves was horrifyingly persistent.
I wonder if the elves who were sold as slaves by slave hunters felt like this in the past. Is this the feeling of Dongbyeongsangryeon? Yushin came to harbor an aversion to slavery itself. And he wanted to blow the faces of the host and the audience who were shouting excitedly one after another.
“Three billion!”
While being handcuffed and watching the mad reaction of the crowd,
With one cry, the audience fell silent.
A whopping 3 billion. The crowd was overwhelmed by a middle-aged man who called for 3 billion won to purchase a slave.
A man with a mustache
Vilen Santander. He was the owner of the forest of Santander and one of the few elven people in Liberia. He looked at the crowd with a victor’s smile, as if he thought he’d nailed the auction. In those eyes, I could feel the arrogance of “If you want to sing more, try calling!”
“3.1 billion! 3.1 billion!”
An elf shouted.
At that cry, Vilen replied in a laughable manner.
“3.5 billion Aether. I’ll pay you immediately with the money I left with Yggdrasil Bank.”
Vilen stretched out both hands clad in silk gloves and spoke to the auctioneer and to the audience.
He overpowered the nobles with his gold power.
Yushin clicked his tongue when he saw the strong greed shining in the eyes of the middle-aged elf man.
I never thought I would be treated as a male prostitute by my uncle elf. Maybe he knew that his hips were quite strong because he had learned horsemanship. Otherwise, there is no way to hit 3.5 billion ether at once.
“3.5 billion!”
“Oh My God. They said it was the golden Santander.”
“Even a knight with six swords can’t spend billions of dollars to purchase a single slave…”
The high elven nobles took a step back.
Even if the family property that could be disposed of immediately was sold, it would be difficult to raise it immediately.
Not to mention the normal elves who simply came out to watch the auction. He was busy whispering while looking at Billen, who had called 3.5 billion won for one slave. They ask, “How do you spend 3.5 billion?” “How much did you want to have?” Was the response.
“3.5 billion came out! Is there more than that, by any chance?”
The presenter asked.
But he seemed to think that it was already half-determined.
The host, who had a lot of bones in the auction, expected that the forest of Santander, which was famous for its financial power, would be occupied by the elves.
“Four billion.”
When everyone was expecting Vilen Santander to become the owner of Yushin Gillard,
A woman took a number ticket.
She was the woman who quietly watched behind Vilen and Leticia.
Ardena Valencia.
As the warrior chief of the Liberia Elf Bureau, she took up her number and called in a large amount that exceeded the amount Vilen called for her. The atmosphere of the auction house turned hot again.
“Four billion…! Four billion came out!”
The presenter shouted.
