Chapter 1540 - 6: Slave City

Chapter 1540: Chapter 6: Slave City

[Prompt: You have killed Joan Aissiya.]

[Joan Aissiya was the Life Witch, you have received 0.3% of the Source of Exploration, now totaling 0.3%.]

[Your Talent ’Soul Eater’ has been activated, permanently increasing Mana Value by 20 points, with a current maximum Mana Value of 6489 points.]

[You have obtained a Treasure chest (gold).]

[Prompt: This Treasure chest has received an additional enhancement, increasing the reward by 50%.]

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Aissiya’s combat strength was very weak, or rather, she was not a combatant at all; she excelled at lies and sowing discord.

[Prompt: Hunter successfully killed a witch, you have activated a special reputation mission.]

[Special Reputation Mission: Witch Hunter (1/10), upon completion of this mission, Hunter will receive the special title ’Witch Hunter’.]

...

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao was quite surprised. He knew there were very few ways to obtain titles. From the First Tier to the Fourth Tier, he had only received a unique arena title ’Good Fighter’ in the arena.

From the current situation, due to the unique nature of the Dark Raven World, titles could also be obtained here.

There were no guards in the castle, only a toady Young Sword Saint chosen by Aissiya from among the slaves. The young man was originally a slave and gained Aissiya’s trust by killing his own relatives. Unfortunately, Aissiya never truly trusted him. Someone who could kill their own family was not worth trusting. How could such a clever witch as Aissiya not understand this?

Su Xiao did not deny that he was initially deceived by Aissiya for a while. This made him realize that even witches without combat power are difficult to deal with, as they are all like maniacs. Even after awakening as witches, they might recover, but they’re still not normal people.

With a gesture to A Mu to pick up Aissiya’s body, Su Xiao leaped out of the window, followed closely by Bu Bu and A Mu.

Su Xiao casually knocked on the door of a nearby house by the castle. As soon as he knocked, he heard the sound of furniture crashing inside.

A moment later, the door was pushed open, and a scruffy middle-aged man came out of the room. He took one last look through the door at his tearful wife and sleeping son.

"30 Lu of grain."

The middle-aged man’s expression was very calm. He knew the fate he had to face afterward; after being sold, he could leave his wife and son with 30 Lu of grain.

With a thud, a pale corpse was thrown in front of the middle-aged man. Upon seeing the corpse’s appearance, the man was stunned for a long time.

"The master... is dead..."

The middle-aged man’s face turned ashen, but after a moment, he suddenly thought of something, and his eyes gradually regained their sparkle.

"Where is Isa’s residence?"

Su Xiao could now confirm that the ’Magdeburg Gathering Place’ was indeed a human slave market.

"No, I can’t betray them."

The middle-aged man took two steps back, an instinctive reaction from being ruled for so long.

Jingle...

A few Gold Coins fell to the ground; these were coins Su Xiao found in Aissiya’s dwelling, totaling 1750 Gold Coins.

"Take me there."

"..."

The middle-aged man was silent for a moment, then eventually picked up the coins by the corpse and stuffed them through the door into the house behind him.

Wearing a coarse cloth, the middle-aged man walked briskly through the drizzling rain. His body was frail, and he had to stop to rest frequently. In this era, he was considered long-lived, and elderly civilians were very rare.

Su Xiao was not in a hurry. The witch named Isa had long escaped. To be chosen by Aissiya as a collaborator, Isa could not be as simple-minded as Aissiya described. As for coming back to save Aissiya, that was absolutely impossible; Isa’s current thought was to avenge Aissiya because she could be sure that after sending out the secret report, Aissiya had no chance of surviving.

After walking and stopping for half an hour, Su Xiao arrived at the edge of the city wall, coming to a small wooden house built next to the city construction. There were no other houses within a few hundred meters of this small wooden house.

Su Xiao placed his hand on A Mu’s back, a layer of light blue crystal climbed onto A Mu’s skin, and Su Xiao and Bubu Wang slowly backed away.

One person, one dog, and one bull each had different duties. Bubu Wang often entered dangerous areas first, Su Xiao was responsible for fighting the enemy head-on, and A Mu handled defense or probing mechanisms that could not be easily broken.

A Mu gently pushed the wooden door open.

Bam!

A blast wave spread out as a flame arrow shot straight through the door, hitting A Mu in the chest.

Su Xiao tugged on the Boundary Line, causing A Mu to retreat. While it was in the air, Bubu Wang healed it.

Boom!

The fire explosion sent a violent fire element spreading outwards. When the thick smoke dissipated, the crystal coating on A Mu was full of cracks, dust covering its face, with its rib cage clearly visible.

A Mu shook the dust off its head, indifferent to the wound on its chest. A Mu did not care, but the sight terrified the middle-aged man, causing him to collapse onto the ground, yellow liquid spreading beneath him.

Su Xiao strode towards the witch’s small house, Bubu Wang leaped onto the roof, and A Mu blocked the door.

As soon as he entered the small wooden house, Su Xiao smelled a familiar fragrance, a strong aphrodisiac aroma. It seemed that not only Aissiya liked this stuff, but other witches also favoured it; perhaps it was a way for them to gain strength.

The small house was about ten square meters, somewhat dim, with a simple wooden bed on the innermost side. The walls on both sides had several layers of wooden shelves filled with jars and bottles. Some glass jars even contained human eyeballs.

The room was cramped, and from the broken jars and bottles on the ground, it was clear the witch left in a hurry, taking only the necessary items, setting up a triggered elemental mechanism at the entrance before leaving.

"Gua～"

Upon hearing this peculiar sound, Su Xiao turned his head to see a blood-red frog confined in a glass jar.

"Bubu."

Just as Su Xiao’s call ended, Bubu Wang quickly ran into the room.

"Can you identify the scent?"

"Woof."

Bubu Wang took a deep breath through its nose.

"Kaka..."

After a dry cough, Bubu Wang rolled its eyes, the smell far too overwhelming to handle.

"How is it?"

"Woof～"

"I didn’t ask how overwhelming it was, can you identify the witch’s scent?"

"Wu～"

"Track quickly, the rain just stopped, this is our chance."

Su Xiao stomped on the floor, causing a crack, and the wooden house shattered under the impact of the air wave.

Boom, boom, boom...

A Mu rushed past Su Xiao, headbutting the city wall.

Bang!

The deafening sound echoed as a massive chunk of the wall caved in. Su Xiao advanced a few steps, kicking the caved part.

Rumble, with a blast sound, fragments flew, leaving a large hole in the five-meter-thick wall, and the group of one man, one dog, and one bull quickly disappeared into the night.

The middle-aged man slumped on the ground with his mouth agape, never imagining humans could be this powerful.

Outside the city, 20 kilometers away, a synthetic beast with a single horn ran swiftly through splashing mud, a woman wearing a witch hat and a black robe sitting on its back.