Chapter 6 – High Elf Slaves (1)
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Forest of Valencia.
It is a port city located in the eastern part of the elven country of Liberia. The current port city, Valencia, was built in the process of driving out the demons who were the natives of the elves who migrated to the Liberia Peninsula to escape the persecution of humans.
Valencia was reaping a lot of profits by cultivating oranges and olives on land and building ships in shipyards on the sea.
“My men said that mustachioed bastard bought them all?”
“I don’t know why.”
Ardena answered Yushin’s question.
She informed me that all the captive slaves exhibited after Yushin won the auction were owned by Vilen Santander.
Yushin’s subordinates are elite soldiers who are said to be among the best in the kingdom of Valois. But even so, it was strange. This is because Billen bought all the captives for a huge amount of money that was two to three times the price of slaves that were normally traded. It was natural to expect that there would be something to aim for.
“The Santander forests benefit greatly from slavery as an industry, but I have never heard of any persecution of slaves. I don’t think he will engage in visible persecution, even if it means preserving his reputation as a member of the Yetsirah Council of Fifty.”
“Yetzirah Council?”
“It is a power organization that decides and judges the great and the small of the Elf country.”
All 50 members of the Council of Yetzirah are representatives of the High Elf Houses.
The leader of countless elves who live in the forest. Representatives who govern the big cities of the Elven country are members of the Yetzira Council, and they are the great nobles who form the main axis of the Elven country.
“Thanks for your kind explanation. So, when are you going to release this?”
Yushin asked.
He pointed to the choker around his neck.
Just activate the spell and his head will turn into porridge and die. It was a shackle composed of a monstrous structure in which the magic of the brain attribute imprinted on the choker struck the head in response to a signal.
“Someday.”
“Someday, when?”
“You are tenacious.”
“Because I am human.”
“Be quiet before activating the spell.”
“Yes.”
Yushin became a calm cat.
I decided to hold back my curiosity as to whether or not he wanted to become a Weldon with his head overcooked in an electric grill.
“I want to see my men in person.”
“One week later. I will make an appointment with the Santander Forest.”
“Thank you. It would have been better if I had become an abolitionist and even took off my choker.”
“I don’t know what you mean. First of all, I am in favor of slavery.”
“A cheeky elf.”
Ardena and Yushin moved from the slave city of Pamplona to Valencia by carriage.
In the process, Yushin repeatedly looked for opportunities to escape.
But it all ended in failure.
As long as Ardena had the stamp of obedience on her hand, it was impossible to escape from the surveillance of the elven warrior commander. And it’s information that I’ve only learned now, but since the choker and the imprint of obedience are connected to each other through mana passes, it is said that the slave’s location can be found at any time.
“What about your sister?”
“I went back to the academy. She only gave Alone a brief tour of the Pamplona auction house.”
Elves were not at all shy about slavery, about enslaving humans.
Rather, I was proud of it.
It is because his ancestors in the past suffered even more humiliation from humans. He said he was getting a fair price from humans, and he further prospered slavery to supply labor for the nation’s prosperity.
It is an unfortunate position for Yushin.
I fully sympathized with the humans doing all sorts of dirty things to the elves, but since I came from a different world, it was completely irrelevant.
“Don’t come too close. Stab.”
“Poking a beauty is my specialty…”
Yushin threw a joke that was not trivial.
What returned to him was the figure of Ardena, who was in motion to activate the imprint of obedience.
* * *
Beriah Academy is an institution that nurtures talented people who will protect Bria, the tree of creation known as the symbol of creation and heavenly bodies.
Only High Elf bloodlines are allowed to enter.
This is because a small number of graduates who have achieved excellent grades at this academy are nurtured as excellent talents to represent politics and the military.
Bria Academy had the same characteristics as a military academy and an appointment system that allowed people to belong to the upper echelons of the Liberia elves.
“Sigh…!”
As Alone lifted her longsword, she applied force.
I intend to manifest the Mana Blade.
However, there was not even a fragment of mana to be found on the blade of the longsword.
Alone Valencia, younger sister of warrior commander Ardena Valencia. She has not been chosen by mana since her birth. Being a high elf bloodline, she has never been able to manage mana, which is easily possible even for ordinary elves.
‘What’s wrong…! The theory is already crisp!’
Alone frowned at her.
She continued to attack the impossible castle.
But all failed. For some reason, Mana didn’t move.
For elves, mana handling is easier than breathing. Unlike humans who artificially accumulate mana in their bodies, elves use the mana dissolved in the air through their skin as it is. However, failing to do so could only be seen as innate inability to feel mana.
“I wondered where he was going. You were alone here, dropout.”
It’s a voice you don’t want to hear.
I can’t tell whose voice it is. It was a face I had seen at Pamplona and the auction house.
“Why am I a failing student? I’m the best swordsman in the class. Even the teachers acknowledged it.”
“But you can’t really handle the most important mana blade. So, failing is a matter of course.”
“It hasn’t been judged as a failure yet! It looks like he’s trying to take his anger out on me at the auction house, but he boasted that he was a golden Santander and didn’t know that he would lose at the auction because he couldn’t pay a penny?”
“Kuk, dare!”
“Dare? You and I are high elves.”
Alone knew that Leticia saw herself as her underling.
So she hates this woman.
Even if she is the same classmate. Even though she said there were times when she was just a friend when she was younger.
I was contemptuous of her lowly behavior, in which she only contrived to despise others by promoting her own superior points. So Alone put a wall around her against Leticia, refusing her to approach.
“How many years have I not been able to do something this easy?”
Leticia raised her wooden sword that was stored in her training ground. Then, a bluish mana blade was formed from her wooden sword.
A wooden sword made out of wood is harder to form a mana blade than a long sword forged out of iron. And without the medium of a sword, it was even more difficult to form a mana blade with empty hands.
In front of Alone’s eyes, Leticia created a mana blade on her wooden sword. It was to show off her own superior skills and to show her fatal flaw.
“I will make it. I will be the academy’s graduate this year.”
“20 graduates are selected each year. But there are over 100 students waiting to graduate. Needless to say, if you add in the classmates who failed the graduation exam every year.”
Bria Academy produced only 20 graduates a year.
The academy aims to produce only the best talents possible. This is because it would damage the reputation of the academy, which has a long history and tradition, if it produces flawed talents and is later discovered.
In addition, since graduates of the academy are selected as talents to lead politics and the military, they had no choice but to pay more attention to training.
“Her sister said there was a way!”
“How…?”
How many times have you failed a student who couldn’t even handle a mana blade?
Leticia questioned.
But she didn’t get it out of her mouth.
This is because Alone’s older sister, Ardena Valencia, the ‘invincible knight’, is the person Leticia admires the most. She vowed her invincibility to herself and swore that she would marry her opponent who had defeated her in a duel.
‘There’s no way the Ardena warrior commander would lie. Then there really is a way… But she said how Arlon, who doesn’t feel mana, handles the mana blade. No, the warrior commander never lies! Well, it’s unlikely that Alone will suddenly be able to use the Mana Blade…’
Her head was pounding.
Leticia felt confused for a moment.
Longing for the commander of the warriors, Ardena and Valencia.
His classmate, Alone Valencia, was ridiculed.
Because the two thoughts meshed together in her head. In the end, Leticia’s conclusion was, “There’s absolutely no way I could learn the Mana Blade in such a short period of time before the graduation exam.”
“Then let’s look forward to it. I wonder how I can learn the Mana Blade before the graduation exam. Let’s call all her classmates and let’s take a slow look. It’s something to celebrate, right? The anecdote about the birth of a failing student who couldn’t even use a mana blade in the graduation exam at Bria Academy.”
“Worry about you. It wouldn’t be an ordinary disgrace if it became known that the lady of the forest of Santander failed the graduation exam.”
“Dare…!”
It was one of Leticia’s habits.
She has a habit of trying to stand on top of the position, saying “Dare you!” To others.
Alone responded in a voice that contained her strong confidence.
“I’ll make you cry and get your failing notice.”
“I would like to return those words. It’s scary that the honor of Ardena’s warrior commander will be tarnished, but you, like an idiot, seem to need a severe failure.”
Alone growled.
Leticia glared at him with a cold gaze.
And their confrontation will spark in the wrong place.
Toward Gilead, the first and only slave of Ardena and Valencia.
* * *
Ardena said.
As soon as he arrived in Valencia through a long way, he asked Yushin for a favor.
“I want you to teach me Alone.”
“How to cover the toilet? Since you’re a smart elf, I think you’ll be able to cover your toilet.”
Ardena raised her hand.
Yushin had to take a step back from the appearance of the elf knight trying to activate the stamp of obedience.
“Allone cannot operate the Mana Blade.”
“No, it can’t be. Elves must be better at handling mana than we humans are. I heard that not only high elves and elves, but also half elves who inherited elven blood have innate qualities.”
“It is true.”
“I would have thought so if it was a half elf, but it’s no wonder that a child the size of a high elf can’t handle mana…”
The younger you are, the faster you grow.
Seeing Alone at her auction house, Yushin learns that she is still an immature elf. Of course, compared to humans, he would be older, but among elves, he would be in adolescence.
It can’t be nonsense.
A high elf who can’t handle mana. It would not be strange if, as soon as he was born, he was pointed out as the culprit of the sinister nature and secretly murdered as an infant. This is because mana was the source of her power for all living beings regardless of race.
“Then the reason you bought me at the auction house for a lot of money is that you want me to teach you that kid, right?”
“Right.”
“Do I have a value equal to 5 billion aether?”
“I know because I fought myself. I guarantee it.”
After thinking about it for a while at Ardena’s immediate answer, Yushin asked Ardena.
“But where did the money you spent buying me come from? It must have been a lot of money that I personally couldn’t afford.”
“That, that’s none of your business…!”
At Yushin’s question, Ardena, who blushed her pure white face, shouted.
