" Where you can find your friends? Ha, who knows, keep asking around." A man smoked his pipe, his spiky gray hair blowing slightly in the breeze." Haha, they must already be licking someone"s crotch! Get lost!" A man shouted, his face flushed.
When he said this, the two other men at the small circular table erupted into laughter.
" I"m looking for two of my friends who were caught, could you point me to where they might be?" Noah asked with a heavy tone.
He had been asking around, but he never got a good answer.
" Haah?! You should already know how things work here! The weak have no rights, so p.i.s.s off and stop ruining my evening!" A skinny man shouted.
His skin was tanned, and he had a sword scar going across his forehead.
He shot Noah an irritated gaze, as he sat on a small wooden stool.
" You!" Noah shouted, as veins bulged on his body in anger.
" No..fuu...Calm down..." He thought, as he quelled his anger.
He looked at Levi who had been following silently for a while and sighed.
He had told Levi to let him ask around, in fear that he would start another fight, but here he was, about to do the same thing.
" Hehhehheh, i heard you two were looking for your captured friends?" As they were about to leave, a dry voice called out.
" Hmm, do you know something?" Noah turned around.
What appeared to be a woman was looking out through a window proped up by a piece of stick.
Noah tried to keep anything from showing up on his face, as he looked at the person.
"She" had a long scar, coming from one side of her forehead, to the opposite bottom side of her face.
But what really caused his expression to dim, was her head.
It looked like it was burned, as a large scar covered her entire head.
A few strands of hair grew from certain parts, which only made it look more hideous.
" Hehhehheh, they should be at the fight house."
" Find the tavern, and make a bet, and you will get to where your friends are."
" Hehhehheh!" As she said this, the womans eyes rolled up, in what could only be described as a look of pleasure, before the sound of running liquid running rang out.
" Ah, who told you to stop?" She suddenly looked down and asked, to which the voice of a young boy replied.
" I-I thought!...No, i"m sorry, please forgive me! I will continue!" The person said with fear and disgust.
" You...Do you find me ugly?" The woman asked.
" N-No! Of course not! How could th-" The voice was inturupted, as a thumping sound, followed by the sound of liquid spraying rang out.
" f.u.c.king tras.h.!.+"
" Was given the opportunity to pleasure this lady, even allowed to lay his tongue on such a place, and yet he was unsatisfied!"
" But, hehhehheh!" The woman"s angry face broke into a disturbing smile as she looked at Noah and Levi.
"..." The hair on the back of Levi"s neck stood up, as killing intent leaked from his body.
He didn"t like how that thing looked at him.
Noah was thoroughly disgusted, but also angry.
He could smell blood, so he knew that who ever the woman was talking to was killed.
he could only hope that nothing happened to Ava or Ryan.
He was even more worried about ryan for what ever reason, but when he thought about it, his worries were justified.
Who knew what kind of weird hobbies the people in this horrid village engaged in?
" Lets go!" He shouted, as he felt Levi"s killing intent.
Levi followed behind him, as he glanced back coldly at the still creepily laughing woman.
...
The sun went down, as Levi and Noah searched for the tavern.
Well, Noah was ths only one searching.
Levi walked behind him silently.
After searching for a while, they arrived in front of slightly larger building.
The cloth used to block the doorway was tied up, so they could see inside.
The inside was well lit, with torches hanging on the walls.
Men and women alike sat at wooden tables, drinking and eating sloppily.
There were also some people with thick metal collars around their necks.
Some were sitting quietly on the dirt ground with eyes devoid of any will.
While others were beaten, or forced into humiliating situations for people"s amus.e.m.e.nt.
Noah walked in first, as Levi followed behind.
It only took a few seconds for the people inside to notice them, and turn their heads.
Seeing the gazes of everyone directed to him, Noah felt slightly nervous.
" Um...I want to make a bet!" He said after a while, as he clenched his sweating fists.
"....What kind of bet?" After a few minutes of silence, a person spoke.
He sat by the counter, his back facing Noah, as his long glossy black hair lay on his back.
"....A bet to get my friends back." Noah said, in a voice filled with a little more resolution.
"....Hahahahah!"
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" Everytime! Ah, it get"s me every time! Hahaha!"
" Well, good luck! Hahahah!"
One after the other, people began laughing, before going back to whatever they were doing in the first place.
" So, what are you betting, for a chance to get your friends back?" The man turned his head, both of his eyes closed.
"..." Noah was stumped.
What was he going to bet?
Money?
But he didn"t have any money, and even if he did, he didn"t know if that was the answer the man was looking for.
This was a village isolated from the rest of the world, surrounded with mountains and dangerous mutated beasts.
What use could they have for money?
They most likely had their own currency, but the problem was, he didn"t know what it was.
" His life." A cold voice rang out from behind him.
" Wha?!" Noah turned around and looked at Levi with incredulity.
" Oh? Wouldn"t his freedom be enough?" The man asked with a light smile.
" What is the difference?" Levi asked coldly.
He had been in this village for no longer than a day, but what he saw already made it clear.
The currency of this village wasn"t money.
Or people.
Or mutated beasts.
Or goods.
....It was life.
Being in this village was equivalent to gambling your life.
He looked into some of the slave"s faces, and saw anger, reluctance and shame.
And although those emotions would be common for anyone in that kind of situation, he somehow knew that not all of the slaves in this village were people who came here and were unlucky.
Some of them were villagers themselves, but became slaves for what ever reason.
" Hehehe, you are a sharp kid." The man laughed lightly.
He tapped his finger twice on the counter, as two large men with collars around their necks walked out from somewhere.
They dusted the ground lightly, before grasping two brown ropes in their hands.
Their muscles bulged, as they lifted a thick, rectangular shaped slab of stone, revealing a descending staircase.
" You will find your friends down there."
" Hehe, but you should really hurry."
"If you want to see them again, that is." The long haired man turned back around with a smile, as he quietly drank the contents of his cup.
"...You...Sigh, we will talk about this later. For now, let"s just get them back first." Noah shook his head, as if to relieve himself of anger or irritation.
"..." Levi kept silent.
" He is too trusting." He thought, as he followed behind Noah.
The reason he bet Noah"s life?
It was Noah who wanted to save people, he was only dragged into it.
If he wanted to save people, it should only be natural to bet his own life.
His pride wouldn"t allow him to ignore a debt, but that didn"t mean that he would risk his life too much to pay it back either.
He also walked in after Noah, while cautiously glancing around.
The staircase was narrow, while the walls just looked like regular stone, although the pa.s.sage way was dark.
" Heheheh!" After seeing Levi and Noah walk down the stairs, the tavern erupted into sinister laughter.
...
After walking down the stairs, they walked through a thin pa.s.sage way.
" Ah!"
" Hahaha! weakling!"
As they reached the end, along with seeing the light of torches, they heard the voices of people.
After walking out through the opening, they arrived inside a well lit dome.
In the center of this dome, there was a circular pit, where one man stood, and although he was covered in blood, none of it was his.
The other man lying in a pool of his own blood on the ground was in a much worse conditioned.
He lay on the ground unmoving, his fists, arms and legs broken, along with other severe wounds.
There were also people standing around the pit, spectating.
Along with 5 bamboo cages with people inside.
These cages were not that far from where Levi and Noah walked out from, so they noticed them immediately.
Noah looked at the people inside the cages nervously.
"..." His eyes continued to s.h.i.+ft, as he looked at the stacked cages.
" Ah! Ava, Ryan!" He shouted, but then almost immediately covered his mouth with his hand.
He walked towards the cages, as Levi followed.
"...No....a..h.." Ava could barely open her eyes, most likely from fatigue.
" Hold on, i will get you guys out." He said, as his gaze s.h.i.+fted over to Ryan, who was sqeezed into the same cage.
Levi also looked at them.
Ryan"s long hair was filled with dirt, and stuck together.
While his skin looked rough.
Although he still looked fairly feminine, it was less than when Levi first met him.
He also looked at ava, who had dark circles under her eyes.
She had dry blood on certain parts of her skin, and her hair was also a mess.
" What are you doing?" As Noah was about to rip open the cage, he heard a voice, as well as felt the tight grip of a hand around his wrist.
He snapped his head to ths side in shock, as he didn"t even realize the man was present.
" If you want a slave, there are proper ways to go about obtaining one." The bald, slim man said, as he glared down at Noah through his gla.s.ses.
" These guys are not slaves, they are my friends." Noah said, as his brows furrowed in anger.
" Is that so? Then all the more reason to..." The man paused, as his grip on Noah"s arm tightened.
"...Get them back the correct way!" The man shouted, as Noah"s arm bulged.
He didn"t know how, but he ended up in the pit, on his backside.
He looked up, only to see the man glaring down at him.
" Heaven and eart stage..." Noah thought silently.
He was a few steps away from the heaven and earth stage, but there was a big difference between a few steps away, and in.
He suddenly had the feeling that this would be harder than he expected, as he turned to look at Levi, who"s cold, golden eyes trailed away from him to the side.
He suddenly felt the chill of death, as he rolled to the side.
Immediately afterward, a spiked club smashed into where he just sat.
" Kill! Kill! Kill!"
" Come on, fight! kill each other!"
The shouts of the spectators suddenly entered Noah"s ears as he started to pay attention.
" Hurmph!" The large man snorted through his nose, as hot air visibly escaped his lungs.
This man was bareback, with only what looked like the bottom half of a robe being held up by a thick rope at his waist.
He held a black metal club in his hand, with multiple spikes on its surface, as he stared down at Noah.
" Mind opening realm, huh..." Noah mumbled.
" But if he want"s to get in my way, then..." Noah thought silently, as a thick killing intent leaked into the atmosphere.
This man was at the 7th level of the mind opening realm, while he was at the 5th, but as he faced this behemoth, Noah"s ice cold voice ran out.
"....Come." He said, as an ice blue qi surrounded his body.