Chapter 37 Escape

  After half an hour of laying low Sarah finally roused. She spent a solid minute emptying her guts, I looked away respectfully while she vomited and afterwards cleaned her with water magic and light magic.

  “Aqua-Cleanse”

  After a minute of sitting down and drinking some conjured water she looked up and began asking questions.

  “Where are we? Why do I feel like trash?”

  “I’ve got no clue, and we were chained up by some mana sucking chains earlier. I had to get a skill to be able to resist them enough to get us out. My guess is that since you have such high mana your body relies on it more than mine does so when it was all sucked away… anywho we're most likely in some hideaway for thieves or this is the black blades hideout. I heard our jailer talk a bit about it before I made them crispy.”

  I give Sarah a hand and help her to her feet. The buildings around us stand imposing, but beautiful. A large building in the center that makes it nearly halfway to the ceiling of this place catches my eyes almost immediately, it was nearly the size of a skyscraper for fucks sake! Gotta love magic bullshit.

  “Gotta love magic bullshit…”

  Sarah mutters as we look out into the street, we didn't have anyone looking for us just yet. We walked into the busy street, holding onto each other's hands so as to not get lost in the sheer amount of foot traffic.

  As we traveled down the street I saw gruesome things for sale, limbs hanging from meat hooks from one shop, another with blue poppies on display, and another that had sinister looking books for sale. We occasionally got looks for our plain clothing as we walked down the street, almost everyone was in dark clothing with wrappings or hoods covering faces.

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  We hurried along, heading for the massive building in the center. If we could climb to the top we could get a good view of the place and find a way out. We couldn't be too far from the others… at least probably not, I hadn't been knocked out for too long I think. After half an hour of walking we ducked into an alleyway to take a breather.

  “You two ladies look lost, mind if me and my friends help?”

  A few gangly humans crept towards us from the alleyway entrance with eyes full of lust.

  “Y'know, I haven't seen any good humans yet, wait, our spacial mage instructor was human.”

  I say as I stretch a bit.

  “Well at least I won't feel bad for getting a warm up by taking out trash like you lot.”

  The four humans begin grinning and pull out knives.

  “I like it when they-”

  The moment he opens his mouth I'm already halfway to him, my legs wrap around his neck and I feel a snap as I twist with my thighs. Sarah has one in an armlock and quickly gets his knife from his hand at the same time.

  I toss the body of the goon into the other two with my legs as Sarah stabs hers multiple times getting her tunic bloody. Sarah tosses the knife into the head of one of the goons as they stumble and the last one I kick his legs out and hit him on the back of the head while he's down, knocking him out.

  I dust myself off, grab a knife and the money pouches off the idiots as Sarah cleans herself off.

  “You should really practice more martial arts Sarah, that arm lock was decent but you lacked momentum.”

  She gives me an incredulous look as she washes off her tunic with magic quickly.

  “Xion, you seem to forget that I'm a mage. MAGE. I don't know any other mages that can kick ass half as well as I do.”

  I roll my eyes as I pick up the last surviving goon by the leg.

  “Alright, it's our first time interrogating anyone but I've got an idea, after I heal him put a bubble of water on his head for a few seconds so he drowns a bit, then I’ll interrogate him, rinse and repeat.”

  I was basing this loosely off of water boarding torture, and if it was a bandit I might have felt a bit bad for trying it, but this guy… I had zero sympathy for his kind.

  After ten minutes of him half drowning between questions we found out where we were and that we were in deeper than we had thought. There was a whole city devoted to housing thieves and illicit goods underneath Salin, the black blades were pillars that kept the authorities away and were the only ones who dealt in the slave trade directly around here.

  I finished off the crying, would be rapist and sit with Sarah for a few minutes to consider our situation.

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  “We need to get out of here as soon as possible. As soon as the black blades hear that we've broken out, the whole city will be after us.”

  I nod, I got up and gave her a hand up

  “We need to keep moving, there's a teleportation circle in that massive building we were heading to, if we can use it we can get out quickly.”

  We began moving to the massive tower, staying as inconspicuous as we could with clothes taken from the goons.It wouldn't stop a dedicated search spell but it would buy us precious seconds if we were spotted. After an hour of walking we saw something unbelievable, the rest of our party was walking down the road in the same general direction we were going