182 Joanna (2/2)

His declaration sent chills all over her body. She felt a huge wave of emotions, specially after he said that he's going to free them. How long had she been dreaming of someone telling her this? How long had they've been waiting for someone to come to their aid and free them from this miserable fate?

Joanna can't help but to bite her lips and suppress her sobs, somewhat failing in the process. Raven stepped forward and grabbed her by the shoulders, saying: \”Save the tears for later. Be strong, we have work to do.\”

His words was like a calm breeze that washed away her worries, she wiped the tears from her face and nodded. Raven asked her to lead the way and she did.

Together, they passed through multiple rooms, creating as little noise as possible. Joanna used signals to warn him if there will be traps or guards nearby which wasn't needed since Raven could see them before she could, but still highly appreciated.

After going through numerous twists and turns, Joanna pointed at the room where the majority of the slaves are being kept, she was about to go in when Raven stopped her. He sensed some people inside and they are quite formidable. From what his sense are telling him, there's at least four people inside who's at Knight Stage, they were alert so it would be hard for them to do what they came here for.

Raven's thoughts flashed, a plan formed inside his head as he whispered something to Joanna's ears. After hearing his plan, a resolute expression emerged from her face, there was no hesitation from her face at all as she nodded and agreed to the plan.

\”Go on. I'm watching you.\” Raven patted her back and gave her some encouragement.

Joanna took in a couple of deep breaths and channeled her emotions. Tears ran down from her face as she wantonly pushed the doors open, she then yelled at the guards with voice full of panic.

\”Help! Help! Someone killed young master Elias! He's coming here! Help!\”

Her screams were heard by the guards and the slaves. The guards wore a panicked expression as they immediately went closer to where she was. Joanna was still panicking and pointing at the direction of the hallway, the guards went pass her but as they did, a silhouette brushed passed them and instantly, the guards were rendered unconscious.

Raven sighed in relief, he went closer to Joanna and patted her in the head saying: \”You did well. Help me, let's drag them inside before someone comes.\”

Joanna nodded and helped Raven drag the unconscious guards inside the slave quarters. When they were done, Raven and Joanna looked at the slaves inside the quarters. All of them were looking warily towards both of them, huddling together as if the two was here to harm them.

\”Try to talk to them, I'll go ahead and pave a way for you.\”

Raven disinclined to stay and allowed Joanna to talk to the slaves.

Joanna panicked for a bit but couldn't really stop him. She looked back and stared at the slaves, not really knowing what to say. It was then that someone stepped forward and said: \”Joanna? Is that you?\”

\”Jemma!\” Joanna saw her and instantly ran towards her, she gave as huge hug while Jemma looked at her from head to toe.

\”You… you're healed! What's going on Joanna? What was that back there? Who's that?\”

Joanna shook her head and started explaining, \”I don't know who he is but he told me one thing, he said that he's going to free us.\”

She then started to tell them the her story, from when Elias was taking advantage of her to where Raven came in and did all sorts of miraculous things.

\”A chance like this might never happen again.\” Joanna resolutely said, \”I'm escaping this place. Even if I fail, I'm going to die trying. I miss my family so bad, don't you all feel the same?\”

\”If you don't feel confident, you don't have to follow me. But I want to return to the surface, I want my freedom back. To all of you who wants to give it a shot, follow me. Benefactor is currently paving a way for us.\”