Even if I could expect what kind of jobs would the enslaved women be subjected to, seeing the state they were in actually made my innards revolt.The first place that the butler leads me to, was the actual "working" camp, which was in fact just a simple, big shack where all sorts of locals would go in and pick one of the women of all ages, shackled to the ground, naked.
Despite the subtropical climate of the island, the nights here were rather cold, to the point where I could see some of the poor victims of the Overlord"s policies already subjected to frostbite. The fact that there were no signs of gangrene only raised my suspicions as to what happened to all those poor women who were unlucky enough to catch it.
During my short stay in the tent, I could see how some men from young to old just came to the tent, picked up the chains of the female of their choosing before leading them outside, to one of the small tents placed all around the area. Just the sounds of men moans mixed with weak, feminine cries told me that this wasn"t some sort of elaborate scheme to make me despise this place.
"I know how it looks like, but our lord decided that we need as many men as possible to develop the land. As long as any of the female slaves get impregnated, she is taken care off for as long as it will take for her to give birth. Depending on their att.i.tude in work, they might even be s.h.i.+fted to younglings care, where they are well fed for the sake of feeding the toddlers and taking care of them…"
Probably noticing the changes to my complexion, the butler tried to colour the situation with a bit of pink, yet it didn"t matter to me.
Even if this world accepted this sort of treatment, not even the energies clas.h.i.+ng in the arena city came close to the madness of this place! In the end, back in the cultivation part of the world, outside of the cases when a man bet his own fiancee on a duel, most of the time it was the girl"s sole responsibility for landing in the clas.h.i.+ng pavilion, be it because of her debts or even used by more ambitious elements as the way to easily get some energy to cultivate.
But that didn"t mean I could easily accept it myself.
Just this place alone was enough to steel my resolve on point in which I would settle the issue with this place.
Unable to stand this place any longer, I was about to get outside, when I noticed something that brought me back to earth.
Barely a moment after some of the women was picked up by the locals, another batch of the naked victims of this f.u.c.king overlord was brought in, bound to the everpresent shackles and left shaking in fear of their coming fate.
"If young master fancies any of them, it won"t be a problem for me to arrange a spot for just the two of you. I think our benevolent overlord wouldn"t mind if I were to gift a few of them to young master directly…"
Hearing those words while looking at the poor, shaking figures in front of me, almost made my heart force my hand out of rage.
I know I wasn"t the nicest person to all the women I met, even going as far as pinning down and getting my way with a girl without her approval, I could still try to soothe my consciousness with the fact that she was actually trying to kill me a moments before!
But there was no way I would step as low as to hurt those poor souls just for the sake of having a moment of pleasure! I don"t think I could ever forgive myself for doing so, not to speak about how I would feel if I were to face Eve after doing something as awful as that!
While my heart was urging me to burn this entire place down and save as many of those poor girls that I could, I knew that doing so right now would only lead to the death of most of those mistreated souls, that I wouldn"t be simply to unable to protect all at once.
"I don"t think…"
Just as I was about to rebuke the butler, I swept my gaze through the faces of the newly brough girls, only to stop in the middle of my sentence.
"You…"
Pointing my finger at one the girls around twenty of age, I almost instantly dropped it down when I noticed a wave of fear filling her face.
Not willing to keep her as tense, I tore out the upper half of the rugs I was using as my clothing, before approaching the line of the women and throwing the cloth at the shackled girl.
"I think I saw you back in the camp in the forest, am I right?"
With my voice as calm and steady as I could make it, I only used a single finger of mine to lightly press against her chin as to force her to look at me.
"Y-yes."
Barely able to utter this single word, this poor soul almost collapsed just by doing so. I couldn"t even begin to imagine what she had to go through in the camp, even though she didn"t look like anyone had the chance to spoil her yet.
"Get whoever you want and stop stalling the f.u.c.king line!"
Just as I was about to start asking the questions that could actually lead me to the most important people I had to rescue, an aggressive voice came from behind me, as I felt someones big hand smacking me rudely through the back.
With everything that I saw so far in this place, this simple provocation was more than enough to tip the scales of my fury!