Chapter 1 – I Bought It Because It Was Cheap

“Are there any more? She is the daughter of the famous magician Lindelheit family! A virgin too!”

A man in a funny mask pointed to the center of the stage with an exaggerated gesture.

A rugged barbed wire that would imprison even a beast. But what was inside was a person, not an animal.

No, should I say that I was a human now?

Slaves have no human rights.

Did you feel the fishy eyes around you? The woman inside the cage shrank with a frightened expression.

Her platinum hair glistened in the light, and her immaculate skin flushed red with shame.

The dress on her body was small and had more areas that could not be covered, but strangely, it did not feel vulgar.

Would it be like this if you were painting nobleness?

There was a charm that attracted people to the precarious yet beautiful figure resembling a delicate handiwork, but….

Just one factor changed the impression.

Right eye.

Red eyes that shimmer more beautifully than a real ruby.

The tear-soaked red eyes looked around like a frightened rabbit.

With just that alone, she descends from an untouchable handicraft to the position of a weakling who can be trampled at will.

A look that stimulates a man’s instinctive possessive desire.

Attracted by this, the customers enthusiastically start lifting the license plate.

“1,000 gold!”
“This one is 1,500 gold!”
“Where is it just that much! I’ll go for 3,000 gold!”

Amount soaring to the ceiling.

And as if responding to it, the desire that is revealed more and more blatantly.

However, unlike unlimited desires, their capital has limits.

“10,000 gold! 10,000 gold is out! Finally I’ll check it out! Are there any more gentlemen who will ‘look after’ the poor young lady?”

Despite the host’s urging to scratch the competitive spirit, the audience could no longer answer.

If you are in a rural village, you will be able to buy the whole, and it is also the amount you can get a well-made mithril weapon.

No matter how tempted you are, you must be hesitant to pour it out hastily.

“If you don’t have any more while we count, we’re done here! One! Two!”

It wasn’t until the end that no one came forward until I lifted the license plate in front of me.

“Oh oh! You’ve got one more minute! By regulation, you must add at least 1/10th of your current bid….”

“20,000 gold.”

“… Yes?”

“They said 20,000 gold. In cash, of course.”

The quiet auction house began to hum noisily this time.

“Twenty thousand? Did I just say 20,000?”
“Right. I guess I didn’t hear it wrong.”
“Who the hell is this amount of money….”

People who are embarrassed by the exorbitant amount of even the highest-end sale, no matter how white and talented they are.

This is a generous customer who was originally going to buy… So did the Marquis of Cyprus.

“Huh… Huh….”

As if he was just despondent, his subspace pockets and iron bars. And he only looked in my direction, but couldn’t catch up.

Fortunately, it seems to have worked out.

If you catch up clumsily, they think you’ve been insulted and send an assassin, which would have been very difficult.

However, if you bid more than twice the amount of your last bid, the story is different. At that time, I acknowledged the difference in financial power and gave up neatly.

At least in the game it was.

“No one is there! Then, this concludes today’s final product, Carla Lindelheit’s auction!”

Earth! Earth! Earth!

He raised a smirk at the sound announcing the end of the auction.

No one else, the ransom for Carla was 20,000 gold.

I bought this for a good price.

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“Thanks for the good deal. As you may already know, the slave you purchased is a talented wizard. So ordering to break the mana core will be easier to deal with in the future.”

“Know. Could you get me a more suitable coat? It’s too conspicuous to go on like this.”

“You have to give whatever you want. Please wait a moment.”

After saying that, the surrounding attendants… No, judging by the thorny vine pattern on his neck, he must be a slave.

Anyway, it was only after confirming that the manager had someone around him bring a coat that he turned his head toward today’s harvest.

“…… !”

When her eyes met, Carla reflexively averted her gaze.

Will she be as tall as my chest? But because of her hunched shoulders, she looks a little smaller.

On the nape of her neck, exposed through her long, draped hair, she caught a glimpse of the pattern of thorny vines she had seen earlier.

That’s the mark of a slave.

Now that Karla has officially become my slave, she must be engraved.

Anyway, it’s amazing. Did Carla feel this way at this time?

I didn’t know because she always looked like a crazy bitch after she was reborn as a saint of evil spirits, but what can I say about her current appearance.

She was very cute, as if she were looking at a frightened small animal.

“To the extent that I want to eat it.”

“Oh… !”

Maybe it’s because my true feelings leaked out without my knowledge? Carla’s trembling intensified.

What… I think I would have been scared if I heard that in the current situation.

It’s been a while since I’ve been so embarrassed by myself. The manager’s slave brought a large black coat.

This would be able to cover Karla’s near-nude outfit.

After her moderate toss, she hurriedly looked at Carla, who covered her own body with her cloak, and then turned her around.

“Then, since we’ve definitely received the goods, let’s go.”

“Yes. We look forward to your next visit.”

It should be There are more than one or two things to buy from this auction house in the future.

Once she covered her body, did she calm down a bit? Even though she looked at her side, she focused her mind on Karla, whose trembling had diminished.

To be more precise, towards the invisible chain connecting Carla and me.

She correctly recognized Karla and spoke with her will.

“[Follow me.]”

“Four, yes….”

Carla obediently obeyed my words.

However, she had a confused expression on her face, as if she didn’t know why she was doing this.

Is it like this?

I replayed in my head the explanation of the slave contract I had heard before.

An order that strongly defies instinct… Did she say that she could force her actions except in extreme cases, for example, to end her own life?

She’s exactly what makes her feel compelled to follow, but isn’t that what it is?

Just because she carved a mark, she could turn people into tools.

Listening to it like this, slave contract magic sounds like really scary magic. Actually, it’s not a very convenient magic.

It’s hard to engrave, as is usually the case with spirit-type magic, but it’s easy to dispel.

So, when a skilled wizard becomes a slave, he sometimes releases the imprint on his own and escapes?

The first thing the manager said was to order the mana core to be broken, probably because of that.

I don’t think so.

Hero and Academy. Or, it’s been three years since I fell into a game called H&A.

How long have you been waiting for this moment?

I muttered to myself what had become a habit by now.

‘Status Window’

Tring!

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Name: Yandel
Title: The Lost Stranger

Basic ability

Strength: 11
Duration: 10
Agility: 12
Feats: 14
Magic power: 18 (locked)

Characteristic

Endless Mana (A) (locked)
Elemental Affinity (B)
Excellent memory (B)
Crude Weaponry (E)
Inability to respond to mana (S)

※Some stats and characteristics are sealed by ‘Attribute: Inability to respond to mana’.

A special experience is required to erase or alleviate negative characteristics.

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Stats and characteristics that seem like they were made for wizards.

It was actually an alt character made to be raised as a wizard.

I didn’t know that I would be unable to respond to mana due to the random penalty given at the beginning.

In addition, for some reason, it even fell into the world of H&A in a time zone that was several years earlier than the time of the original work.

I didn’t send a protest mail to the game company, and it wasn’t that H&A was a shit game of the rare era or a god game.

… It was long enough to hear the sound of stagnant water, but there was quite a bit of rotten water that did more than me.

Anyway, without any other signs, I just woke up and became a buccaneer in the game.

I was very surprised at first. To the extent that it was, I sat in the street blankly for about three days.

Well, since I was hungry, I woke up and started moving.

Fortunately, as you can see from the information on the status window, I entered the body of the character I was playing.

Of course, it was an alt character, not a main character, and there was a problem that the random penalty given at the start was like shit… Even so, the long play so far has not been in vain.

H&A had a unique system in which all characters on the same account shared their inventory, limited to gold.

If that’s the case, I’d rather create an account warehouse, but a small Goldman share is something else.

I grumbled so much during the gameplay, but now I’m really glad that I have gold.

The world behind H&A… The continent of Eurelia is basically a fantasy, but it is a town where various technologies and commerce have developed close to modern times.

That said, money is right here too.

Unlike online games where the operator controls the amount of gold in circulation, H&A is a packaged game with only multiple elements.

Gold inflation in the latter half is an inevitable fate, and the play time even exceeds 7,000 hours.

How much gold has accumulated in the meantime?

Even the 20,000 gold I spent to buy Karla was not a big amount to me.

But, anyway, this is a fantasy.

It is a world where individual power is far more important than the Earth.

As a wizard who couldn’t use magic, how much he suffered.

The characteristic of crude weapon technology that is attached out of nowhere is a trace left behind by struggling.

But that also ends today.

If it was the magic master Lindelheit’s mana breathing method, he would be able to cure his inability to respond to mana.

Looking at her chest, where Karla’s mana core is located, a hearty smile flows out of her.

Ugh. Look at that manatong

To deal with that much mana, of course he must have learned how to breathe properly.

“Hee!”

Did I misunderstand my gaze?

Carla, who was frightened of her, tried to cover her own chest as if she were hugging her arms.

It’s not the size to be covered by that.

Hey. Don’t you eat it?

Maybe.