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“Aaaaah!”

Only after seeing the blood in front of my eyes did the audience scream.

The slave auction house quickly turned into a chaos.

There was not just one Orc slave who rioted. Dozens of orcs owned by the Mandren Company began running rampant all at once.

They came out from behind the blackout like bulls that had lost their senses and began attacking people indiscriminately.

‘Fuck… What on earth are we going to do about this? Is that an orc?’

Minwoo was just dumbfounded. I was waiting for the elf slave to come out, but for some reason, a strange monster I had never seen before came out.

At first, I thought they were putting on a show to gloss over the elf slaves who didn’t even have a host.

But the host died right before my eyes. It was difficult to see it as a prank by the organizers.

Minwoo wasn’t too embarrassed. He also had a light baton with him, and he also had a ring of protection that he received from Ernate. Moreover, after becoming a demon, his basic physical specifications were greatly strengthened, so he was safe from most threats.

“Well, I guess I need to escape from this place quickly. Follow me… Huh..?”

Min-woo was talking to the beautiful woman sitting next to him, but Min-woo shut his mouth. He was already gone. Minwoo was momentarily distracted by the orcs and missed it.

“Holy shit…”

Min-woo thought that it had been a long time since he had been this excited, and took out a light stick from his chest. He felt like he wanted to stop everything and hit them one by one.

“Hmm? That’s…”

Just before pressing the button on the light stick, Minwoo noticed the hem of his familiar robe disappearing through the blackout. Unless he was mistaken, it must have been Chloe.

“..Why are you trying to go in there?”

Minwoo, who still does not know Chloe’s identity and intentions, thought about that and followed her into her dark room. On the way, there were a few orcs who tried to rush at Minwoo with their eyes turning red, but they were easily dealt with by briefly turning on the light stick.

…

‘The same people…’

Chloe paid no heed to the orcs’ riot and checked inside the blackout. There were her orcs that occasionally rushed at her, but she subdued them with light movements. In addition to being an outstanding wizard, she was also an outstanding warrior.

‘That’s…’

Chloe’s eyes caught the long iron bars installed from end to end of one wall. The inside of the cage was divided into sections at regular intervals, and most of them were empty, but a sound was coming from the innermost part. Chloe approached there.

The door to the iron cage was open. Inside, an orc was crushing a woman and shaking her rough buttocks.

The orc was violating a woman.

Chloe quietly walked back and stabbed the orc in the back with her sword. It was exactly where the heart was located.

“Crrrr to

The orc opened her red eyes wide, and immediately met her death with blood foam pouring out.

After Chloe pushed her orc’s body aside, she looked at the woman beneath it.

“…”

Unfortunately, the woman had already stopped breathing. A handsome face and pointed ears. Her face was pale rather than white, and her empty eyes were staring into space.

Elf.

.., That’s what ordinary people might have thought if they saw it.

‘..Is it a native tribe?’

Chloe knew at a glance that she was not an elf, as elves can easily distinguish between her kin. However, it was clear that if you looked at her with a human’s eyes, she would be mistaken for an elf.

They cut off the ears of a Toin tribe and installed an artifact with an optical illusion spell to create fake elf ears. Because it was a crude magic, it was a trick that anyone with a certain level of magical ability could easily discern.

But ordinary people would not notice at all. Because no one has ever seen the true appearance of an elf in the first place.

Since you don’t know what’s real, it’s impossible to tell what’s fake.

‘..Let’s go back.’

Now that the truth has been confirmed, there is no longer any reason to remain here.

After Chloe closed the eyes of the leadern woman, she left her in the place and she came out of her cage again.

Minwoo happened to enter the blackout and found Chloe.

“Hey! It’s dangerous, so why don’t you just avoid it? Why are you in a place like this… Huh?”

Minwoo looked at Chloe and as she spoke, she stopped and tilted her head.

“Elf?”

Chloe shook her head at Minwoo’s words.

“..That woman is not an elf. She is just a toy with an ear cut off.”

Chloe said that, but Minwoo’s next words had a different meaning than she thought.

“No, not that one. You. “You look like an elf?”

“!”

…

Because of her her violent movements her her her, the robe covering Chloe’s head her her came off, allowing Minwoo to see her pointed ears her her her her. Of course, Minwoo had never seen an elf in real life, but his sculptural appearance and pointed ears were enough to make him think of the word elf.

Chloe was internally embarrassed by Minwoo’s words her her her, but she spoke outwardly, feigning composition.

“..I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m just an ordinary human being.”

However, Minwoo still spoke with an uncertain expression.

“Hmm… I think the shape of the ears is quite unique for a human… Well, I’ve never seen an elf in person, so I’m not sure…”

“..!”

At Minwoo’s words her her her, Chloe finally realized that her optical illusion magic her was not working on Minwoo. It could be explained that appearance is a matter of taste, but pointing out the ears was clearly strange.

“…”

Chloe’s mood suddenly changed. Although she had just had a cold demeanor just a moment ago, she was now openly showing off a deep murderous spirit. It was enough that even the insensitive Minwoo could feel it.

When Chloe glared at her scaryly, Minwoo smiled awkwardly and said.

“Now, now… Calm down… I think it would be best to get out of here first…”

As soon as Minwoo said that, the orcs came running in from beyond the blackout.

“Wow..!!”

“It’s so strange… I heard that the orcs in this world are not monsters but a single person…?”

As Minwoo mumbled to himself, Chloe came up behind Minwoo and tied one arm around his neck. I didn’t mean to use Minwoo as a shield.

“Kek..!?”

“– —- –.”

As Chloe chanted his magic while restraining Minwoo, the ring on Chloe’s finger made her glow.

Soon the two people disappeared. The remaining orcs just looked at each other with blank expressions.

…

The place where Chloe moved with Minwoo using the transfer magic was to the lodgings of the inn where he was staying within the capital.

“Pfft..!”

Chloe immediately made Minwoo lie down on the floor, then climbed on top of him and held down his arms. There was a way to use her restraint magic, but she recalled that her own illusion magic she did not work on Minwoo.

Minwoo recalled that when he first met Aisha, he was restrained in a similar position to how he is now. But there was one thing that was different from back then.

Minwoo had not been able to hypnotize Chloe yet.

Chloe’s voice came from behind.

“..What are you doing? Unless you want to break your arm…”

Even the threats are the same as Aisha. Minwoo thought so in his heart and answered calmly.

“If you want to know my identity, look inside my arms.”

“…”

Chloe thought for a moment, but then began to carefully search Minwoo’s arms her her her her.

Ji-ing!

Chloe, who touched the light stick, lost consciousness and fell to the floor.

“She is a very annoying woman in many ways.”

Minwoo muttered as he relaxed his arms, which had been bent backwards just a moment ago.

“Tsk. I had no choice, but… The problem is that if I absorb her her magic her power her her her, I have to wait for her to come back to consciousness.”

Even if you want to hypnotize a subject who is unconscious, you cannot.

Just like when she first met Ernate, sleeping between meals was fun in its own way, but it was a bit boring to satisfy Minwoo’s taste her.

Above all, she thought that it would be more enjoyable to understand the target’s character first, so Minwoo decided to be satisfied with just briefly examining Chloe’s body of hers.

“But…”

Minwoo, who laid Chloe down on her bed, suddenly frowned at her and said,

“Why is it so noisy outside?”

…

The empire was suffering from nationwide riots for the first time since its founding.

“The orcs are going crazy!”

A riot of orc slaves that occurred without any warning.

It was occurring simultaneously not only in the capital, but throughout the empire.

Even the capital, Imperial Town, which was thoroughly defended against foreign powers and had near-perfect security, had to struggle quite a bit to quell the Orc riots, not to mention other areas.

Particularly severely damaged were commercial cities and farm areas where the labor of orc slaves was most utilized. Since it was impossible to suppress the situation with garrison troops alone, there were places where reinforcements were requested directly from nearby large cities or capitals.

It was after receiving news from Roswell, a small town in the westernmost part of the country, that the Empire got a clue about the orcs’ rampage of unknown origin.

The town of Roswell has been invaded by orcs. Unlike the orc slaves who rioted indiscriminately, they showed organized movement, and it was reported that they were already numbering in the thousands of wandering orcs. There were also stories of people seeing the appearance of demons.

Only then did the Empire learn the truth about the Orcs’ uprising.

In the past, there were enemies with similar characteristics to the orcs who are currently rioting. At that time, they were a different race than Orcs, but their characteristics were the same, such as red eyes and crazy behavior.

It was a unique ability newly acquired by Nerka, an orc who became a new member of the Demon King’s Army and sat on the Seat of Rage.

Nerka, who obtained the blood of a demon, went berserk of all the orc slaves raised within the empire.

There was no other way to utilize those who were already born and living as slaves.

And it was also the devil’s declaration of war against the empire.

Soon after, the empire officially declared the resurrection of the Demon King.

And accordingly, there was a change in the warriors’ subsequent actions.