A grave secret

Azaroth's question didn't surprise Tronte and instead of answering him, he questioned back with a shrewd smile, "What do you think?"

"Damn. How come you know everything?!" Azaroth exclaimed before taking a sip of his tea.

Tronte ignored the question and began speaking, "Most of the slaves are probably demi-humans. Don't be surprised to see some half-demons. But there are also some rare slaves with a pure and royal bloodline of their race."

"Amongst all the slaves, I have my eyes on 3 of them. Those three will be invaluable for you in my opinion."

"Hoh? Brief me of them."

"Two out of those three are demi-humans. One has a mixed bloodline of a human and a brown cougar. From the analysis of the slave company, the origin of his beast blood was from a 5 Star Beast who was possibly his mother."

"As for the other demi-human. His situation is somewhat trickier since his father appeared to have been a demon."

Azaroth wasn't surprised to hear that there were demon kins in this slave market. Most demons had the tendency to go along with their desires.

The cases of rape and murder were rather common in the purgatory.

"According to the analysis by the Slave Company holding him, the child seems to be aware of his own lineage but he refuses to speak. In fact, his bloodline is quite special as no matter the effort this Slave Company puts, they can't get his secret out of him." Tronte gave that piece of information quite casually as he saw that thoughtful look on Azaroth's face.

Azaroth nodded his head and gestured for him to continue.

"The last one, and probably the one with the greatest value amongst all the slaves. It's a woman with pure Elven Blood. Not just that, but the instrument to measure her Bloodline Power broke before it could gauge the strength of her bloodline. You understand what it means right?" Tronte finished speaking while asking a question from Azaroth.

"She possesses the Divine Bloodline of the Elves?!" Azaroth was truly shocked by this information.

This information meant that this elf who had been captured was a member of the Royal Family of Elves!

Azaroth knew full well just how prideful and protective the Elves were about the people of their own race.

"Why hasn't the Elven Kingdom attacked the Sinyalian Kingdom yet?!" Azaroth asked with some surprise evident in his voice.

Although the humans had taken control over the entire continent and drew their own political map, it actually wasn't entirely accurate.

There were many zones on the continent that wasn't actually under the humans but rather under the beasts, demons, elves, or the dwarves.

Naturally, there were special reasons why humans couldn't conquer those bits of land.

Like the Elf Kingdom…

In terms of pure individual strength, the strongest expert they had was their Elf Queen. And in Azaroth's time, the Elf Queen was at most at the level of a Demon God.

He wasn't sure of the power level of the Elf Queen in this era, but he was sure that the humans must have managed to give birth to a 9 Star Warrior of their own. Otherwise, they wouldn't have taken over such a large part of the continent.

However, as far as Azaroth was aware of, even a 9 Star Warrior or someone like the Demon Venerable would be hard-pressed to actually win against the Elf Queen in her territory.

This was because the Elves received a rather strange boost in the forest where they resided. The forest of the elves was known as 'Nature's Abode.'

This forest seemed to have been blessed by a strong expert or perhaps someone at the level of a Demon Venerable or a Supreme God. This blessing was known as Nature's Blessing.

This Blessing had two main properties. One was that as long as the Elves are in Nature's Abode, Nature's Ardor would continue to empower them. That is why, when the Elves are fighting on their home ground, their attacks are 20-30 times more powerful.

For the Royal Family of the Elves, their attacks get 50 times more powerful.

However, this wasn't the ability that scared Demon Venerable or the other experts.

The second ability was the truly terrifying one. It was known as the 'Absolute Kill'!

It was a sacrificial ability activated upon the sacrifice of a Royal Member of the Elves. Naturally, the individual who is being sacrificed must be atleast a 4 Star Warrior before meeting the requirements to use this skill.

It was a sacrifice to their Guardian Deity, the World Tree. The mysterious World Tree seemed to possess a great strength as it had actually killed a Demon Venerable back in ancient times.

Azaroth remembered this incident because he had taken part in that war against the Elves. He was merely a Demon Lord at that time but he still remembered how that red light struck their Demon Venerable who lead them.

Even that Demon Venerable found it impossible to resist that red light and soon died.

In fact, it was precisely due to this that the Demons immediately retreated and never dared to attack the Elven Kingdom again.

Not just their Divine Wood Ardor, but also such a strong trump card would prevent anyone from even thinking of conquering that location.

Well, Azaroth hadn't given up yet in trying to find a way to conquer that unyielding kingdom. However, even he was out of ideas against the Elven Kingdom.

"The Elven Kingdom still isn't aware of the fact that their princess is here." It was Evelyn who answered Azaroth's question.

"If this Slave Company is aware of her origin then how can they even dare to capture her. Also, I doubt she didn't resist so they must have treated her rather roughly. They should know that they are just digging their own grave." Azaroth looked quite confused.

It was Tronte who answered Azaroth's question, "That is the reason the Slave Company won't reveal that she is actually a princess of the Elven Kingdom. In fact, they have also used some seals to prevent her from revealing this information to anyone else."

"I see… Then how do you know this?" Azaroth asked with a serious look on his face.

At that question, Tronte had a playful smile as he answered, "Who do you think they contacted for the seal?"

"You? Naah. You didn't know anything about sealing in the Acadia Academy."

As Azaroth spoke those words, Evelyn looked at him with contempt visible in her eyes.

Tronte just laughed at those words and spoke, "Haha… You are right. But I do know the person who possesses this sealing ability. So that Slave Company had to give me the entire story as well."

"That might be possible." Azaroth hmmed in response as he agreed with Tronte.

He had naturally noticed Evelyn's reaction but acted as if he missed it.

"Yeah. They are passing this woman as a regular Elf. Her cultivation has already been abolished to prevent her from resisting her new owners." Soon, a knowing smile appeared on Tronte's face as he added, "Also, she is a virgin."

"How do you know that for sure?" Azaroth casually asked him.

"Well, objectively speaking, the Slave Company has already reduced the price of this slave by abolishing her cultivation base and even passing her off as a regular Elf. To maximize their profits, it's natural that they allow her to retain her virginity."

"But damn… She is a real beauty. I doubt I have ever seen anyone so beautiful in all my life. You definitely have to buy her bro." As Tronte spoke those words, Evelyn's brows twitched in some irritation.

From what Azaroth observed, she seemed jealous. Her jealousy stemmed from how Tronte was talking and praising that woman so zealously.

Azaroth sneered in response and asked, "If she is so beautiful then why haven't you bought her yet?"

At those words, Tronte had a slightly embarrassed look as he rubbed the back of his head, "Although I want to have her, her price is something that just forces me to give up."

"The only way to buy her is to give three Rank 5 Red-Violet Cesnesia crystals."

Azaroth now understood why Tronte had no choice but to give up.

These Red-Violet Cesnesia Crystals grew in the passage between the Purgatory and the Frascoia Continent.

Because of the Spatial Disturbances in the passage, even a Demon King was hard-pressed to move in this passage let alone gather these crystals.

These crystals were immensely helpful to humans since they could empower their element irrespective of what it was to a certain degree. But this was still not its greatest use… It was mainly used by the warriors at the 5 Star Rank to gain insight into the Space Laws.

Among the Rank 5 Materials, these crystals were one of the best things to not just empower their own elemental energy but gain insight into the Space Laws.

And the side effects of using these crystals were temporary so the warrior could use these crystals without thinking too deeply.

Azaroth actually possessed these Red-Violet Cesnesia Crystals in his Spatial Ring right now. In fact, he had actually used some crystals of a higher rank than these Red-Violet Cesnesia to create his own Spatial Rings.

Although Azaroth possessed these Red-Violet Cesnesia Crystals, he didn't want to reveal his personal belongings to Tronte.

Moreover, buying a slave for these Red-Violet Cenesia Crystals was definitely a scam. How could he be willing to fall into such a scam?

Besides, if Azaroth just gives away Rank 5 Materials, then he would just be shouting to the world to come and rob him.

"Too expensive," Azaroth grumbled with an unhappy look.

"Right. I know bro. But still, when I think of her looks and then her identity, I think it's a good deal." Tronte spoke, giving his own view on this matter.

"Oh really?."

However, soon enough, an idea did appear in his head. He asked Tronte with a clever smirk, "You know the location where this woman is being kept?"

Tronte looked shocked upon hearing this question. He partly understood what Azaroth was planning and in his opinion, it wasn't a good idea at all. However, he still truthfully replied, "Sure, I do. But what are you planning to do? Kidnap her?"

Before Azaroth could even speak, Evelyn spoke with blatant disdain and contempt in her eyes as she stared at Azaroth, "A weakling at the 2 Star Rank should give up the thought of abducting a slave from the Silent Death organization."

From its name, it was clear that this Silent Death Organization didn't just deal in selling the slaves.

"Let me worry about that." Azaroth gave a sharp reply to Evelyn's words.

Azaroth then focused on Tronte and spoke, "Let's first go and get the other two slaves. Maybe I could find some hidden talent there as well."

"Sure. We can go now." Tronte spoke as he suddenly stood up and prepared to move out.

Azaroth and Evelyn also stood up as they followed Tronte out of his house.

As the three were walking, Evelyn remained entirely silent while Tronte kept on having some idle chatter with Azaroth, informing him of the other things that occurred in the Wrihull City while he was gone.

Most of it seemed useless to Azaroth but one particular bit of information caught his attention.

Jonas's concubine whom he had recently married had suddenly fallen ill. It seemed as though the Rhodes Estate was trying to hide this information while discreetly buy some medicines for her strange illness.

The strange thing about this illness was that no physician could understand the symptoms of this illness. The only thing they understood was that this illness wouldn't spread through air or skin contact. This was quite relieving for the other members in the harem since they had come in contact with her one time or another.

This woman was Tiana Rhodes. And each day, her body would turn reddish during the noontime and blue during the nighttime.

During the noontime, her temperature would rise so greatly that it felt as if she was practically burning. But during the nighttime, it would fall so sharply as if she was going to turn into ice.

The only reason she could survive until now was Jonas's Ardor that was preventing her body from collapsing apart.

This was all that Tronte knew.

Azaroth remained calm as he heard this information. He understood that this was not a natural illness but the effects of poison.

'Twin Elemental: Fire and Ice Poison huh? A troublesome poison but I should be able to solve it using the Heavenly Flames. However, how can I extract the maximum benefit from that situation.'

Azaroth never did something which wouldn't benefit him so his mind was already working out a way in which he could take advantage of this situation.

This wasn't the only valuable information Tronte informed Azaroth.

The information that truly caught Azaroth's attention was about the Merchant Union. It seemed that they had gained a rather rare artifact. Even Tronte had no idea about what this artifact was but this was the rumor spreading in the Merchant Union.

It was because the security had shifted even within the storehouse of the Merchant Union.

But soon, he threw the situation at the back of his mind as he had reached the location.

From the outside, it was a large building with a grey color on its outside and made from cement.

Azaroth also sensed some spirit energy from it and was sure that it could take a beating and remain standing.

'Interesting… So many 3 Star and 4 Star Guards. Moreover, I can even sense the fluctuations of 5 Star Warriors underground?!'

It was truly impressive that there was such a force in Wrihull City.

'If this is an Assassination Organization then this might not even be half of their true force. In fact, the truly strong members must be out on a mission.'

"We are here now," Tronte spoke to Azaroth.