Chapter 42: The Underground Slave Market
Then Arya vanished from the room.
Now only Miyuki was left there.
Arya teleported in front of the first stone wall where they had been before.
He was completely invisible.
Then he used his Wing Skill.
From his back, a pair of white wings slowly appeared.
He gently moved his wings.
Whoosh!
His body rose into the sky.
He silently flew over the first wall.
There were many detection magic items placed around the wall.
But they didn’t react to Arya.
Because those magic items detected mana.
Arya didn’t use mana.
He used energy.
That was why none of the magic items noticed his presence.
As he continued flying, he looked down.
Below him were many houses, offices, warehouses, and different buildings.
People moved around the streets without knowing someone was flying above them.
After a few more seconds...
Arya finally reached another huge gate.
He slowly landed on top of the stone wall.
Then he looked forward.
A massive mansion stood in front of him.
It looked more like a castle than a mansion.
It was much bigger than every other building around it.
A huge gate stood in front of the entrance.
Inside, there was a large open courtyard with beautiful gardens.
Everything looked completely different from the rest of the slum.
Outside the walls...
The slum was dirty, broken, and filled with trash.
But inside the mansion...
Everything was clean.
Green trees, colorful flowers, and well-maintained paths covered the entire area.
It was hard to believe this place existed in the middle of the slum.
Then Arya entered the mansion from the upper floor through a window.
When he entered, many guards were standing in the distance.
Some guards were patrolling the hallway.
Many maids were also busy working inside the mansion.
Some were cleaning the floor.
Some were carrying food.
Others were doing different kinds of work.
Arya quietly walked forward.
He looked inside every room whose door was already open.
But he found nothing.
Then he slowly opened one room’s door.
When he closed it...
It made a small sound.
One nearby guard heard that sound and walked toward the room to check.
When the guard entered the room...
The door behind him suddenly closed.
He immediately turned around and was about to say something.
But before he could...
He was already dead.
His body fell onto the floor without making much noise.
Arya slowly walked beside the body.
He took out the ring.
The moment he removed the ring...
Arya became visible again.
Then he slowly pointed his hand toward the dead boy’s body.
A thick black smoke came out from his hand.
It slowly spread across the entire body.
The black smoke completely covered it.
Then...
It slowly devoured the body.
Not even a single bone was left behind.
After a few seconds...
The black smoke disappeared.
The dead body was completely gone.
Arya had devoured him.
Then...
Arya’s body slowly began to change.
His height changed.
His face slowly transformed.
His hair, eyes, skin, and even his clothes became exactly the same.
Even the small scars on the guard’s face appeared on Arya’s body.
A few moments later...
The transformation was complete.
Arya had changed his appearance into that guard.
Now he looked exactly like him.
There wasn’t a single difference.
Even if someone who knew the guard stood in front of him...
They wouldn’t be able to tell which one was the real one.
Now he could move around the mansion without creating any suspicion.
Arya opened the door and quietly stood outside.
A few seconds later...
Three guards walked toward him.
One of them asked,
"What happened in there?"
Arya calmly replied,
"Nothing."
"I thought I heard someone."
"So I checked."
"But there was no one."
The guard nodded.
"Then follow us."
"We have to deliver them."
Arya quietly followed them.
They walked down to the first floor.
Then to the ground floor.
After that, they opened another hidden door.
Behind it was a staircase leading underground.
They walked down.
Soon...
Arya saw an enormous underground prison.
There were many jail cells.
Inside them...
Many women, children, and men were locked up.
All of them wore slave collars around their necks.
That meant they had already become slaves.
This place belonged to slave traders.
They captured people from different towns and kingdoms.
Then they turned them into slaves and sold them.
To rich people...
Nobles...
And anyone willing to buy them.
There were more than five hundred slaves locked inside.
Today...
All of them were being taken outside.
Because after moving them...
The slave traders planned to make the underground prison even bigger.
In another town, a huge slave buying and selling event would soon begin.
And in this kingdom...
Selling slaves was completely legal.
That was why they sold them openly without hiding anything.
Arya quietly helped the other guards bring the slaves outside.
While walking through the underground prison...
His eyes suddenly stopped at one corner.
There was a small dirty room that smelled terrible.
When Arya looked inside...
He was shocked.
More than fifty dead bodies were piled together inside that small prison room.
Most of them were covered with dirty cloth.
Some had died from sickness.
Some had died from hunger.
Others had been injured.
And once they became useless...
The slave traders simply killed them.
Sometimes...
They even killed them in front of the other slaves.
Just to fill everyone else with fear.
Soon...
All of the slaves were loaded into many horse carriages.
The underground area also had a huge hidden road built for transporting slaves.
Arya and the other guards continued putting the slaves into the carriages.
After a few hours...
Everything was finally ready.
Arya also left together with them.
He sat at the front of one carriage as one of the guards.
The horse carriages slowly began moving.
Arya was still disguised as a guard.
Because of that...
No one suspected him.
Arya already knew...
Many of the slaves came from his own kingdom.
That was exactly why...
He decided to go with them.
