Hidden Chamber (2)

A few hours ago, right before the train even departs.

Inside of a room there are people who call themselves Slave Hunters. They are the people or a group who capture individual to become slaves and sell them to a large and powerful company called Slave Trade Company or STC. They will sell the captured slaves to STC, and the STC will resell it to interested buyers.

Numerous independent hunter or group of hunters are lined up at the large room to submit their captured slaves and sell it to STC. It took them few hours to finish all the transactions and loaded all the cages on the train.

"Are all the slaves accounted for?"

"Yes, there's no one missing. I'll give my report to the headquarters."

"All right. The guards are already at their position so there's no need to worry."

The two heads of the STC assigned at the station exchanges words to affirm the documents and accountings of the slaves inside the train.

The guarda are station at each carriage to protect the passengers for possible threats on the way. Only two are station at the farthest back to watch the slaves so they don't do anything reckless.

The guards in the train are all in High-level of [Haku] but having a high level of senses will not be enough to protect the train. So everyone enters a training center to learn martial arts such as sword style, spear or every manner of martial arts with weapon or not.

[Present]

Among all the guards that are present inside the train, there is one who is considered as their Captain, he's the only person inside who has reached Low-level [Peros].

Compared to the unique people inside the Lukewarm City, this is one of the weakest but since his job is just to transfer the slaves, they didn't put a powerful guard to protect a low number of slaves.

Meaning to say, even if the slaves were to die, it will not inflict a notable injury to the sales of the company.

But still money is money, so they at least put a bit of protection inside.

On the hallway of the train, one guard enters a room where he sees numerous tv monitors connected go almost every corner of the train. There, a man is sitting while looking at the monitor.

"Captain, I have checked everything. Some slaves still refuse to eat and some are almost lifeless, I think we will not reach our quota. What should we do?"

"What should we do? We should do nothing. We are only hired for this job is to protect and keep the slaves in their care. It is not part of our job description to keep their quality. That's up to the separate division. So don't worry about it."

The man who just reply is the Captain o of the guards. His name is Captain Jim.

"Understood, I'll get back to my post."

"Okay."

Jim is an easy go lucky guard Captain, as much as possible he doesn't want go work. So he's always inside the monitoring room just eating some food. Because that's the easiest way to monitor what's happening inside the train.

Now, at the second to the last compartment of the train, few meters away from where the slaves are located, there are two guards stationed there, but they are only playing chess in a table.

Until, the automatic door slides left, and a girl comes in. She's wearing a white blanket, the one that we use in table.

"Hey kid, you shouldn't be here."

The young girl reveal her face and it's an elf, the form that the slime (Hiro) devours a while ago.

One guard sharpens his gaze as the young elf is familiar.

"Us that girl familiar to you?"

"No, why?"

"I don't know, I feel like she's one of the slaves there."

"Slave? They are all inside their cage, it's impossible to get out there without us noticing."

The two look at each other but decided to ignore it and tell the girl to scram.

"Go away kid, this is a place where you should be."

Despite those words, the girl didn't reply, instead, she smiles, cunningly.

Without the girl listening to their call, one guard stood up and holds her shoulder and pushed her gently to remove her from the room.

However, he realizes that a pool of blood appears below the girl. Thinking that the girl was injured he tried to ask her with his face in distress.

"Hey, are you injured—" His voice stops as he can feel something throbbing in his left arm. When he look to see what is happening, he sees that his wrist has been cut off.

"ARGHHH!!" He growls in pain and he hold his left arm. The other guard panic and aided his friend.

"Hey what happened?!"

"My arm! My arm!" He replied. Tears are flowing down from his eyes as the pain continuous to escalate, as if an acid enter his system and killing him from the inside, burning his muscles and internal organs alive.

The other guard instinctively wielded his sword and point it at the you elf girl. However, before he could even talks his head was sliced off by a fine cut of a swift blade that even his senses couldn't perceive as his rationality is in distress.

The elf girl smiles happily as one is already dead, and the other one is grunting pain.

"The feeling of being a slave for their entire life is nothing compared to what you are feeling right now. Everyone inside this train is going to die."

Swoosh!

She swings her hardened smile blade cutting the head of the guard. After she killed the two, she opens the door that connects to the last compartment.

As soo as she does that, she turns around and walk towards the other compartments where all the passengers are located.

She reshapes her body back to the appearance of Hiro.

Hiro stretches his arms and says: "Well then, let the massacre begins."