Servant II

Chapter 16: Servant II

Master is a very kind person even when he was still a little kid.

Aside from that, he's also a smart and good kid that is why I have a great confidence that he will not pose any kind of mess or trouble.

He never shows any interest when it comes to other people, he even ignored me sometimes whenever I came to visit him at his apartment.

Well, that was expected because he is an orphan after all.

I know that I will never have an equal standing as a parent to gain his attention like any other kid have for their parents.

I expected all of this to come before because I don't have any knowledges about raising a child, I didn't even know what it feels like to have a parents that loves you unconditionally.

Maybe it's because I am a slave at that time, everyone around me treated me as a disposable tool.

I don't have any rights to choose something, I only exist to be used and to obey my master, I don't have any emotions or dreams, even the knowledges were taken away from me.

Everytime you create a single mistake, you will have a very painful punishment that you will never wanted to experience again.

But master was different from the others, an exception to every beings that I had encountered.

He is a prideful being with a kind personality, he is far more prideful than the elves, a proud being like me.

As a slave, I don't have any reasons to know some pride but the more I look at other slaves, the the crystalized emotions inside me started to break and grow inside me.

Because of these emotions, I slowly begin to show some pride, the pride of elves.

I even defied my owner and cursed them.

As an elf, my pride grew stronger the more I defy my master.

Even though I was punished because of those actions to the extent that I almost lost my life, they didn't killed me back then because of my high market value and intelligence.

But this leads me to grasp my only and small hope to escape from the slavery, I honed my skills and experiences until the time where I can fight and defend myself from my owner.

I managed to kill my owner who's dumb enough to let me live and gain experience from his punishments and trials.

His enslavement collars have been nullified because of the skills that I have earned after so many attempts of escaping, all those defying actions have an equal amount of sufferings and the responsible for that sufferings are the enslavement collars.

A magic items that allows you to control someones life, you can put any punishments you want depending on how you treat your slaves.

Once you put the enslavement collars on someones neck, that person will never have any force or reasons to defy you anymore, and everytime they manage to defy you, they will experience the great punishment far painful than death, an event where your life was fighting for it's survival from that pain.

Because of that punishment, I gained more and more skills than the normal slave that lead me to my freedom.

After that incident, all of the slaves that my owner posses was also freed because of me, they were the reason why I gained my former self.

All of those slaves who have experiences in combat, killed his last guards and escaped from that hell.

We went to the forest aiming to start another life but reality was not that easy.

Because it's a forest of the outskirts, monsters gathered, roamed there as it was their own territory and habitat.

Escaping from hell, we roam that forest without knowing that it was a famous territory of monsters and beasts.

We are slaves who knows nothing about the current situation of the world because we were prisoned and inside of the slavery world.

Almost half of us were killed by monsters and beasts of that forest, as we don't have any strength to defend ourselves from those monsters, we have no choice but to run for our lives just to survive.

Those who are unfortunate were killed and later on became a meal by those monsters until help arrived to us.

After they noticed my presence, the elves of the forest began to defend us from those monsters until all of those who managed to escape the monsters were taken at the safety area.

These elves were only watching us from the beginning where we entered the forest, but for some reasons, they suddenly helped us after they noticed my presence.

Elven race was so prideful that they don't want to help you unless you know them is what I heard from the nobles, but I don't know anyone from them yet they still helped us.

"Why?"

Is the only thing that came to my mind until my consciousness disappeared.

I lost my consciousness because of exhaustions, injury and hunger, my body was so weak and light.

They brought us to their village in no time after they tend our injuries and wounds.

I still can't understand why, the elves that have no relationship with me, showed their kindness towards us, strangers and outsiders.

In normal cases, I will be treated as a traitor or a harmful and corrupted elf because I am a slave but they didn't show some I'll will towards us.

After I gained my consciousness, I found myself inside of the room.

Apparently, these room were a part of this village's chief house.

(Why do I needed to sleep in this valuable bed? I'm just a lowly slave who doesn't have any rights to sleep on this bed.)(Uera)

I get up and tried to walk from outside but after a few steps, I fell into the floor.

Hearing the sounds from my room, the servants rushed to my room to check what happened.

Not only servants, but there's also some guards here, I don't know why but the guards seems to be worried about something.

Their faces shows how shocked they are when they found out that I already gained my consciousness.

After they gained their senses, they went to the village's chief and reported my current situation.

The two guards remained outside of the room and waited silently, the three servants served me and checked my body and conditions.

Apparently, I was unconscious for about five days until now, they said that I was so weak when they brought me here, they even thought that I would die because of injuries and fatigue.

About the condition of other slaves, I asked them if they were alright and fortunately, they are now in good conditions.

The only one who was still unconscious for a long time was only me, some of them remained unconscious for about three days only.

Maybe it is because of those things that happened to me back when I broke my collar, a huge amount of Mana gushed outside of the collar and started to destroy the collar.

Thanks to my skill (Hitie)"Negate" that allowed me to break the slavery collar and other types of magic and physical attacks under certain conditions, I escaped that hell and became free from slavery.

They also said that no one from the remaining slaves died.

I was so grateful at the same time anxious and scared about what will happen to us next.

After a few moments, the village's chief came inside of the room along with the servant that called upon him and a woman.

The two of them cried after they saw me inside of the room, I don't really know what's happening here now.