173 – One night at sea (3)
If a war breaks out somewhere, a huge flow of money moves together toward that battlefield.
Someone wants to sell weapons at a high price, someone wants to sell materials such as food ingredients, and at the same time, prices are fluctuating, and when things that are usually considered valuable fall to the bottom, a trader who thinks of buying them cheaply and selling them at a high price from afar. also gather together.
War makes people’s lives hard, but the money that can be earned through the war rather makes logistics active. It’s just that the active distribution doesn’t go back to the common people.
And among the active logistics, certain products exist.
is a slave
They bring slaves from other countries and sell them as cheap slave soldiers, or they bring ‘mass of goods’ that no one will say anything about even if they disappear, like deserters or refugees from a village burned down by a telephone call, and sell them as slaves to other countries.
War was a bountiful harvest for slave traders, and the longer the war lasted, the more slave traders with greedy eyes gathered around the kingdom.
Some were originally aristocrats and captured defeated commanders and sold them to other countries. In order to obtain information from a country that wanted information from the palace, the commander’s slave was bought at a very high price.
The price of the slave soldiers was not very high, but sometimes the slaves who had excellent skills and were eager to turn their lives around by blowing their names in other countries were a jackpot.
War is the consumption of weapons, weapons, materials, and, above all, people. It is not uncommon for trained soldiers as well as high-class races such as knights to die while rolling on the battlefield.
How many knights and soldiers of the Kingdom were trampled on by the Sky Knights, and how many other knights and soldiers of the Duke’s Army died in Jordi’s heinous and inhumane strategy.
It was said that it was a task to strike the back of the kingdom that was already in chaos, but all sorts of forces were swept away, and soldiers and knights from other countries were also harmed every day.
That’s why the country bought time with money using slaves.
After the boy grew up to be a strong young man, he decided to buy ‘usable resources’ with money, which were created after receiving sufficient training.
It may not be useful, but instead, prepare a decent resource that can be rolled without any hesitation and replace it.
And as can be seen in the case of the commander among the slaves sold, valuable slaves that are not generally obtainable must have value somewhere.
A handsome man or a beautiful female slave was bought by nobles at a high price.
A strong warrior is sold at a reasonable price because it is useful for simple labor or work that requires force. However, it is not easy to catch, so slave traders do not aim well.
And even slaves with unusual past histories can be sold at high prices.
A terrifying serial killer slave who killed more than ten people, a young girl slave with a past that was raised by wolves, a slave with a skin color different from others, and a slave born with a deformity are all popular.
In that sense, Jordi was good.
A psychopath with demonic thoughts devoid of humanity who sets people on fire to fight. Plus, a good-looking face that you can tell clearly from being beaten up. of noble origin. All of which are popular elements.
The crazy human side will sell for a high price to a noble with a hobby who likes to tame and play with dangerous things, and a handsome face will be popular with a female or male aristocrat who is looking for a decent man to heat a lonely night so hot that the moon melts. There should be, and being from a noble family is good in itself. An aristocrat of a lower rank than Jordi’s origin will rule over a noble of a higher rank and buy it expensively in order to feel a low sense of conquest.
There was no way the slave traders would leave such a good product, a good product that had already been firmly suppressed, so there was no need to work hard to catch it.
He stole the goods by dodging only the terrifying mercenaries, and succeeded in escaping on a wagon at night. Perhaps the mercenary who woke up in the morning would go on a rampage in search of a product he could not find a trace of.
“Look at this broken thing. How can you treat a product so harshly? So what about the mercenaries? Don’t you know that money is not enough? is not it?”
“Even if the request fails or the money or goods are stolen, they will eat it up, saying that it is enough to go somewhere else and start over.”
“I have no faith, no faith! look at us! Do you fix broken products well and bring them back and sell them? As much as it sells for a high price, you have to treat it as an expensive item!”
“Anyway, the inn there was not very good. Next time we have something to stop by, let’s find another place. You should write it down.”
While someone was writing down an evaluation of the inn in the village they were staying in in their travel journal, he took out a sticky medicine like other nasty phlegm and dabbed it on Jordi’s face.
Forcibly fitting her crooked nose, rubbing her swollen eyes, stripping off her body to make sure there are no bruises anywhere on her body, and then examining it meticulously.
Naturally, Jordi tried to resist the moment he released the restraints to undress, but the slave trader gave him a strange drug before that, so his body became numb and he couldn’t move as he wanted. Even if you grunt and try, you won’t listen.
“Okay, nothing wrong!”
Dress it up again and tie it up. In addition, since they were tied more technically than mercenaries, it was rather difficult to move their bodies rather than tying them so violently that blood didn’t work like mercenaries.
‘Damn it, children!’
Jordi tried to escape the slave traders by any means.
I wanted to get out of this trap and take revenge.
However, if that had been so easily possible, the industry itself would not have emerged. Didn’t they try to escape just because they were captured slaves?
Novice slave traders capture slaves with violence and fear, risking some damage to their products. As you gain a little experience, you will be able to capture slaves using technology. And if a little more time passes there, you will be able to capture slaves using your head.
Slaves are sold as commodities because they cannot escape even if they try to escape.
No matter what Jordi did, no matter what tricks he did, the slave traders meticulously blocked it all and then moved Jordi steadily.
“By the way, where are you going to take this to sell it?”
“I don’t know what will happen if I take it to a nearby country. You can live quietly, but you can use the army to take it away. That should be a loss.”
“… … Get on the boat.”
“what?”
“Let’s go a little further and sell it. It’s such a product. It will sell well even if you go far away.”
“… … It’s a pity that I can’t prove that I’m an aristocrat because the guy who knows this guy’s face is gone.”
It is better to sell it safely than to risk it being taken away by the military.
The slave traders decided to take Jordi on a boat.
All of Jordi’s resistance was mercilessly blocked, time passed, and before he knew it, Jordi was on board a ship leaving for a distant foreign land.
Stopped at the bottom of the boat, where the rats roamed with the cargo, Jordi gritted his jaw and grinded his teeth as he looked at the slaves who were in a similar position to him.
However, no matter how many times I close my eyes and open them, nothing changes in reality.
Reality was still pushing its cruel jaws at Jordi.
All Jordi could do was close his eyes and spend the night with the low, filthy livestock in this foul-smelling place.
* * *
“Arrived!”
While Jordi boarded the boat and started sailing the night sea, Chester and Monia set foot on the land of the long island, bathed in the light of the slightly tilted sun from the highest point in the sky.
“It is land!”
The moment she reached the ground, Monia lay flat and hugged the ground tightly. Shocked by the sight, Chester cringes, but Rex and Ant start rubbing their bodies on the ground together.
“The ground does not shake! Don’t cry! I’m not sick! Aww! The best of the land!”
“… … I have to get out of here anyway, so I’m going to take another boat.”
“Why do you say such cruel things?!”
As Monia rushed at her crying, Chester carefully pushed her away.
Monia, who had been quietly pushed back, looked around while gently wiping the tears shed by the impression of stepping on the ground that was not rocky.
“… … How to say.”
And he carefully opened his mouth.
“It’s very different from a floating island.”
“right?”
The floating island was overflowing with life. Under the influence of the grace of the top, life overflowed everywhere, to the point that even the dull Monia could feel the signs of the overflowing life.
sound of bugs. bird’s voice. animal sounds. The sound of blades of grass or leaves.
all of that was written down.
It is so quiet that it feels like an island where nothing lives.
“This is normal. The floating island was strange.”
“common… .”
Monia, listening to Chester’s words, turned her head to look at the drifting island slowly approaching in the distance.
And again, he looked at the island spread out in front of him.
‘You’ve really left the island.’
Although it is still an island, it has definitely left the island.
As Monia involuntarily took a step back, Chester packed up and grabbed Monia’s hand and led her away.
“Now, shall we go?”
As Chester smiled and led her along, Monia, who had been hesitant, also smiled and took a step.