Slave Merchant

After Rose brought her beast to a halt she called out to me.

"Young master we have arrived"

I nod to her and jump of her beast.

In front of us is a small building painted in grey color, to be completely honest i was expecting something more sketchy like a huge building painted all black or having to go through all sort of back alleys before we get there, but then again slavery is not illegal so it makes sense.

Actually the only place where all races coexist is town Belnurd, this is the town where the Royal academy is and was named after the creator of the academy around 600 years ago.

There are many reason that Ignus is not peaceful, some of the most important are:

That vampires need blood to sustain themself, even blood of beasts would do but acording to what i have read blood of other races tastes better and makes them stronger, so they are practicaly at war all the time.

Elf wanting to live peacefully in their forest but are abducted and sold to humans because we find them attractive.

Beast people wanting to live peacefully but are abducted and sold to humans because we find them attractive.

Vampires that don't want to live peacefully but are abducted and sold to humans beacuse we find the attractive.

Yes, as you can see humans are damn horny bastards.

At this point every race has slaves of other races to showcase their might, hell i even heard that the royal castle of Lapouta, a human kingdom, only has servants of other races.

Shaking my head i follow Rose inside.

Inside there is a middle aged man writing something on a piece of paper, his appearance is definitely what i would call distinct.

He is very short and chuby man wearing black pants, a white shirt and black coat.

I now what you are thinking, this is a very generic outfit, but you have to keep in mind that i am now in another world. This is the most expensive thing a normal man can wear and it's not only that, i can also sense a vague pressense of mana on his coat, no doubt it is enchanted.

'Damn i need to get these books ASAP'

My thoughts were interrupted when the man looked at us.

His eyes shined brightly when he saw Rose and he showed a business hardened smile.

That was until he saw me.

When he saw me his smile disappeared, he quickly got up from his sit and gave an elegant bow.

"Please forgive my previus insolence my lord, this one is named Arthur and has no surname"

"Rest assured Arthur i take no offence to such petty mistakes, though you will have to be more careful from now on."

I said without showing any emotion on my face.

Truth be told i am actualy panicking right now but as it would turn out my 'Art' skill also has eloquence as a part of it, that together with my new skill makes things way easier.

I got my new skill while i was riding on the back of Rose's beast and it is called 'poker face'.

The only thing i am missing now is the negatiation skill and i could become the best merchant in the world, at least if you give me enough time to level them up.

"Understoud, please tell me my lord what might you need"

Arthur was nervous, i couldn't have noticed before my stats became so high but now i can easily see the cold sweat running down his forehead.

To this i signaled to Rose by waving my hand gently.

Rose comes forward and talks.

"My young master is here today because he wants to pick a slave as his personal maid."

When i heard what rose said i activated my 'poker face' skill so as to not show the biggest grin i have ever had after being reincarnated into this world.

Yup, i mean there is no way i could have chosen a male servant at this point, other than my personal preference it is actualy a tradition for nobles to get a personal maid at a young age so that the maid will grow together so as to be more loyal to the person she is serving. This is what happened with Rose and my mother, but Rose wasn't a slave but a young daughter of a family that had sworn allegiance to my mother's family.

"Of course, please follow me"

After he said this he started walking to the back of the bulding that was currently blocked by curtains.

Behind the curtains was an empty room, no rather than a room it would be more fitting to be called a corridor.

He walked for a bit before he stopped.

"My lord would you prefer me bringing some of the best slaves here or would you like to follow me inside?"

I didn't even hesitate before i replied.

"I shall follow you"

"Understoud"

At the end of the corridor was a huge iron door, i dont know for certain but is remined me of the gate at the entance of the town.

He put his hand on the handle and instantly a tiny needle appeared and pricked his skin before going back after a moment the door began to open on it's own.

'Some kind of mechanism to detect blood?'

I couldn't ask him something like this so i just put it to rest at the back of my head.

After the door were rows after rows of cages.

Honestly, it's like a labrinth.

Inside the smaller cages were beasts, and inside the bigger ones were mainly human slaves and periodically some male beast-people.

This is to be expected, this is a small town after all and abducting people form other races is risky, difficult and most of all extremely expensive.

If he was to buy slaves from other town to sell here, then he would only be able to buy the leftover slaves, such as the ugly, sick, or injured.

Actualy this is what i was hopping for, a sick slave could be easily cured after i get and level up alchemy and would cost significantly less.

With that in mind i keep looking around, we are searching for a girl that has to be the same age or be younger than me for obvious reasons.

After looking for a bit we found 4 options.

3 of them were humans, they weren't what i was looking for and 1 of them was a beast-person from the dog tribe but she had cut her face with a knife so she didn't realy look very appealing.

While looking at the options my brain remembers that this is how usualy things go in the novels i used to read.

So mimicking the novels i asked.

"Arthur are these truly my only options?"

After i asked i looked directly at him, making sure that i would spot any attempt of him lying.

His face became a bit flushed from stress but he quickly returned to calm, as expected from a shroud merchant.

"My lord there exist one more option but it is bedridden so i didn't mention it to you."

My face remained tranquil but i was doing a gut pose in my mind.

"Show it to me and make sure nothing like this happens again!"

He cringed a bit at the sound of my deep voice, well as deep as a 5 year old child's voice can be, and started walking.

"Understoud my lord!"

He takes us to a small room where a young girl can be seen resting.

She was lying on a bed and sleeping, weird this is the first time i see a bed for a slave here.

Her skin was deathly pale, exactly like i was before my training.

She is beast-person of the fox tribe and honestly she is very cute, she would definitely grow into a beauty.

Her hair, tail, and ears are completely white maching perfectly with her skin.

She is kinda thin and sort but that can be due to malnutrition.

"Arthur tell me all the information you know about her."

This isn't the first time i ask this question, so Arthur thinks i am just a little curious.

"My lord i don't know a lot about her, her name is Yumiko and should be a bit more that 4 years old. She was sold by her family due to her illness, the illness isn't hard to cure it's just expensive, all in all she is one of our mest merchandise."

Hearing his response i gazed at him calmly.

"...a dying girl is your best merchandise, Arthur?"

Yes, the girl didn't have long to live, probably less than a month.

Hearing this, he froze.

"Anyway Arthur, how much for the girl?"

After asking this i put on a shroud smile.

From the moment i saw her i made up my mind to buy her, all this talk was just to lower the price.