Egret

“Yes, it will be difficult to adapt right now. ”

Judas opened his mouth, looking around at them.

“Let's be clear. I just wiped out the market, I didn't buy you guys. ”

It was a decisive tone. The slaves who heard it felt like they had been abandoned by their master for a moment.

But his story wasn't over yet.

“I will buy your time instead. ”

“ ……? ”

“From now on, you can choose to belong to me. As an employer, not a slave. Will you do that?”

Slaves were still expressions they did not understand. However, the compulsion to answer the owner's question opened his mouth.

“Yes.”

The best expressions that a slave could make in situations where he did not know his master's tendencies were only a short answer to "yes" and "no."

“I will follow your orders. ”

It was a solicitation, not an order, but for them this obedience was more familiar than breathing. Judas, who was anticipating in advance that they would not be able to adapt to the new status, was willing to help him understand it once again.

“From now on, you will be converted to Lubarzan, not Midgard. ”

‘Lubarzan Empire. ’

In fact, as long as I lived as a slave, my nationality had nothing to do with it. Even if you go to a weak country where you have never heard of a name, not an empire, slavery will only live a life under the ground.

I never imagined what life would be given to slaves who would close the market with force and kneel before the mighty men.

“My servants will lead you to the portal. Follow them first. I'll be back after I finish what I have to do. ”

Five knights who were waiting for orders in advance came forward. The captured merchants were also managed and decided to take them.

Seeing this, the slaves exchanged anxious gazes with each other. Judas said it was right to follow the knights. Judas glances at them as they begin to move.

“I'll see you later, then. ”

People stared at him with stupidity. The warm smile that I see today was completely different from the cold reign that was stigmatized by merchants.

‘It's like a must. ’

He seems to have fought for slaves instead.

They felt like speculation, but they could not erase that thought. The favour I never received went beyond warmth until it was hot. In the middle of winter, the frozen hands that were frozen by the cold breeze flew like they were burned, even though they only touched the water.

Instead of fear, more special emotions were revived in the minds of those who had lived as commodities. They all followed the guides with a different look from the first.

But there was one who remained alone without moving with the other members.

“I am……. ”

“Oh, I have a favor to ask of you. ”

Two ears twitched like the wings of a white butterfly. It was a slave of the Yang Demibeasts who was handed orders to remain and held my position firmly. She stares straight at Judas with her dark chocolate-coloured nails.

“Yes, my lord. I gave the order."

“First of all, you need a common name. I am Judas. Do you have a name? ”

“No.”

The Demibeasts replied with a blatant objection. Sage, who had never imagined that a person might have no name, questioned him.

“Huh? What do you call it when other people call you without a name? ”

“If it is the title that was called to the previous masters……. ”

She hesitated a little. It was not because of shame, but because I was worried about being rude to Sage who seemed naive. However, he did not hesitate for a long time according to the habit of slavery and gave an answer to the question.

“Then... 'bitch’... ”

“What?”

“‘Bitch’, ‘two-year-old’, ‘lamb’ ……. ”

“No! No. I'm sorry to ask.”

Sage shook his hand with a faint face. It was a title she could roughly guess her past life. Sage, who thought it was unnecessary to inflict the pain, became very unfamiliar. The Demibeasts did not feel any shame and blinked blindly.

Judas, who was watching her like that, mentioned something.

“Kirier Elyson. ”

It was a kind of prayer to the Holy Land that the Empire believed in. It was short, but contained a strong reverberation in it.

“I think it's the most appropriate name for what you want to do in the future. ”

“If that's what you want me to do..... ”

“A singer singing emotions. ”

It was as monotonous as choosing a meal menu that day. The underweight sheep woman muttered again in her sights.

‘Kirier...... Elyson. ’

The lemon hair that flowed down on the ball scattered slightly in the wind.

‘That's my name now? ’

She has always lived a life owned by others. In slave life, diarrhea is not allowed to be owned by the subject. But in fact, I can easily grasp it now.

‘Strange tremors. ’

She placed her hands on her chest and felt a new rhythm flowing through the blood vessels. It was different from the heart that beat so fast because of fear. Rather, I was so anxious.

“Hey, what's wrong? I don't like the name the Lord gave me. ”

“No. How dare I think of that. ”

At the other end of Baikal, the Demibeasts desperately shake their decay heads.

“Suddenly my heart trembled strangely..... ”

“Let's call it hope. ”

Before Sue could speak any more harshly, Edan dismissed her condition with one word first.

“Hope that it can be better than it is now. ”

When she heard that, she remembered the people who had left for Lubarzan a little while ago. There was definitely the same tremor on their faces.

‘Me, you have to pass this on to others. ’

She seemed to know what Judas wanted of her.

“Do you want to try?”

He didn't ask me if I could. I just gave them the choice of whether to try or not.

The Lemon Lamb Demibeast, who was a slave, chose his path for the first time.

Kirier Elyson.

This will give birth to the undefined Demibeast, Idol, who was loved by the people of the Empire in one body.

* * *

The following day, Judas left the slave market and headed for the centre of Midgard in earnest. It didn't travel very long, but the desert-like path changed to its origins at some point.

“Are my eyes weird right now? It looks like it's going up into the sky. ”

Baikal rubs his eyes and asks.

“Unfortunately, your vision is normal. It's right to go up to the sky. ”

“Captain over there? Thank you for letting me know that it is normal, but why are you sad..? ”

“Get off. It's hard to ride horses anymore. ”

Edan stepped down from the horse, ignoring Sue's intense gaze. Baikal landed on the floor after him, not being threatened by his superiors for a day or two.

The road was a paved road covered with soft elastic flooring. The road was steeply sloping and headed high into the sky. I couldn't see how far up the sun was.

“Do we need someone here to keep the horses? ”

A well-maintained horse raised in the Imperial Palace. Moreover, horses are needed to return to the Empire after work in Midgard. However, it was difficult to reduce the number of people here by that much.

“We should not reduce the number of heads here. ”

Edan has already left five of the Knights to rigidly take the slaves to the Empire. No matter how powerful Judas was, he had to have a minimum of escorts.

Considering safety, it was necessary to maintain a certain level of legislation for the Crown Prince.

“Then you can't do it. Once I'm alive, I'll come back later... ”

“Huh. You don't have to. ”

“Mr. Cortoban? ”

It was Cole who relaxed his taste buds again.

“A spiritist is a good supporter. ”

And Cole called the Spirit of Wind, and laid him on the head of the horses. The spirit promised by Cole was not as powerful as Uni, the spiritual king.

Along the Yellow Wind India, the horses began to run in the same direction without encountering each other.

“Call me back when you need me, and I'll be right back. ”

“Huh. Is that even possible with spirituality? ”

“Natural account decrees are natural in nature. The degree to which you communicate with animals is fundamental, isn't it? However, if they didn't trust us, they wouldn't have followed the Spirit's guidance. ”

It was a reliable and well-trained horse for the owner. Cole's spirit will take the horses where there is grass and water and take care of them, so his worries are gone. They began to climb the ramp in haste.

“Oh, why did the people in this neighborhood build roads on the ground so high? ”

As a relatively weak magician, it was a road structure with a self-inflicted insult. Fluvi wept on Baikal's shoulders whimpering and complaining. Edan, who looked at the two loudly grilled in pairs with pathetic eyes, answered with a swift walk.

“There's got to be a reason. The other benefit is that only science and technology have developed weakly, buried and nourished magical power. Do you know?”

“…… What? ”

“Maybe I invented a machine that flies through the sky. ”

“Shit.”

Even the rest of the outrageous wind burst out with laughter. Baikal hurriedly stabbed him in the eye with a suspenseful black furan.

“Hey. Sky machine? You have too much imagination, Commander. He said he had developed a massive bomb that would blow up a small country. ”

“He makes sense, too. If you look at the history of the last continental war, hundreds of years ago, one city had already blown enough. ”

“Yes? You just blew the city up with a chemical bomb, not magic? ”

Cristina, who was forced to listen to the two conversations because they were closer to each other than on horseback, opened her eyes.

“You didn't know that, did you? I remember taking the same history class as you. ”

“…… Wahaha! I did. I blew up the city. I know.”

“Do you know which country city flew? ”

Baikal, who was trying to pretend to know him, shrugged.

“Well, I don't know. Where is it? Thaw... No, Mahva...? ”

(Laughter) Ethan kicked his tongue and told me the answer.

“Kingdom of Leviathan. An island floating in the middle of the sea. ”

“Yes, well. Hmm."

Baikal gives up his shyness by coughing.

“But why didn't you defeat the continent when you had that much power? You hate other countries, don't you? ”

“Ha, that's cool. Even if it's strong, it's under the Empire. As long as we exist, they will never reveal their ambition. ”

“But that's not true. ”

“Science is a force against divinity. They ended up destroying nature and building pavilions just for humans. ”

Following Cristina's cynical answer, Edan said: I was seeing the end of a sloping path. The streets in the air, which glittered transparently in the sun, slowly appeared.

“Only the 'Asgard' pavilion for humans. That's the number of Midgards. ”

Tunneled roads were spread everywhere to prevent pedestrians from crashing. There is a star-like sign and countless intersections across the sky, and someone explodes a lightning bolt. On the ground, it was an air road that seemed transparent.

It was like a transparent web covering the sky.

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