Chapter 35: Slave Auction (1)
Night. The outskirts of Underdog City.
For some reason, luxury carriages have gathered in droves in a vacant lot at the back of the city where no one usually comes.
Black tents cover the huge clearing.
Masked aristocrats and wealthy men stalked into the barracks.
Today is the day of the slave auction. Naturally, it is a slave auction that is not officially reported to Baskerville.
As such, the slaves being sold here are undeclared goods.
There were many people who could not be traded as slaves in the first place.
Barbarians displaced from their homes, nobles from distant lands, or commoners kidnapped out of nowhere.
They were chained, hawked, or drugged to the point where their will to escape or report was completely broken.
Or they were commodities that would be.
"Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to tonight's 'freak show', yes, yes, come, come, come."