Chapter 251: The Escape (2) (1/2)
Hearing the blonde amazon's words, Scarlet just had to take a look at the supposedly silent and 'orc-free' outside for herself. Stepping forward he grabbed the door and pulled it wide open for everyone to see.
The sight that greeted them, shocked not just her but Sarah as well, who was just behind the two, still a bit heated as a result of the teasing of the grinning amazon at the front.
”What happened here? Where is everyone?!” Seeing that there were absolutely no signs of the guards, Scarlet cried out in a mixture of surprise and shock. Surprise because of the fact they were truly safe, but also shocked because there were absolutely no signs of the guards, not even signs of any sort of struggle. They just seemed to… 'vanish', for a lack of a better word.
”Huh? What do you mean?” Sarah asked from behind, taking a step forward as well and taking a look. Seeing how it was calm, and there were absolutely no signs of the guards, she went into deep thought once more.
Being the most knowledgeable of Aiden's abilities of the three, she had some vague idea of what could have transpired here. Still, she couldn't be sure, and besides, it wasn't that important anyway.
A content smile began to gently curve the edges of her lips as her thoughts raced back on the strange young man that walked into her life from seemingly nowhere, surprising her with his shocking feats time and time again.
”Heh, he really couldn't sit still… He just had to take care of them…” Sarah let out a sigh that could be mistaken for a sign of annoyance, however, the gentle look in her eyes and the unmistakable smile on her face told a very different tale.
Turning around, she left the other two walking back towards the far end of the building, to the furthest stall after Scarlet's. ”Once you are done wasting our precious time gawking, we should get to work. There's quite a lot of stalls we need to somehow open up and set the people free.”
Her words caused the other two to wake up from their stupor and pull back from the door. Putting her huge weapon back on her back, Naybeah only smirked as she looked at the purple-haired girl's back, silently following after her. Shortly behind her, the fiery red-haired Scarlet followed along, still perplexed about what could have happened at the gates.
He did see the boy rip his stall to pieces with ease just earlier, but he didn't really think he would be this strong. Although the feat was impressive especially if you would take a look at the boy's visible muscle mass, she just contributed it to some magical artifact, or that he knew where to grab the old wooden board to rip it out.
However now, after witnessing the scene on the outside and the fact that there weren't any to begin with, she started to think that maybe, just maybe there was something more to that long, black-haired, exotic-eyed youth than what she first believed. The fact that he could pull off such an incredibly realistic illusion to alter the look of his body was already an amazing feat.
Thinking about the boy, her eyes wandered off to the large, blonde amazon walking in front of her. Although she spent most of her youth locked away in cells and fighting for survival day in and day out, she did hear some stories about their fierce race. One story, one myth stuck to her mind: The fact that not just anybody could win an amazon's heart. The male had to be incredibly strong, as he had to be able to completely, utterly dominate the woman and also be accepted by the Queen of the Amazons. Not many could achieve such a feat, so the fact that this blonde giantess was so clearly smitten with that much smaller boy was a telltale sign that something was not ordinary about him.
Then the fact that the purple-haired woman, who whilst looking much more ordinary and bashful than her robust friend, had this aura of mysticism surrounding her. She wasn't physically strong, but still, Scarlet knew that when it came to combat, she could easily hold her own.
The stall right next to Scarlet's housed two humans, a man, and a woman. Besides the thin and patched, dirty, ragged linen bag that served as their 'attire' they were practically naked. Large, black metal chains were clasped around their necks, fixed to the pole in the middle.
As the trio walked to their stall and looked at them, they jumped in fright and scampered to corners of their little 'room' trying their hardest to blend in with the shadows, hoping that these fearsome, terrifying women will ignore them and not hurt them instead.