Chapter 449: The Elves natural enemy (1/2)

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

After hearing Elvis's explanation about why they have fallen into such an unfortunate situation, Leo's face quickly turned from being serious to those of a mocking.

”So you mean to say that if we didn't save you just now you would have become a sex-slave?” Leo said before letting out a chuckle.

In front, Ethan, Elaine, and their men were also trying their best to hold their laughter.

”Hehehe,” Elvis scratched his head while wearing a wry smile on his face.

So what happened was, after their group left that village beside the Emerald Forest three days ago, Elvis then immediately gathered his people to return to Emerald Tree Kingdom as they decided to change the location of their job operation due to the Emerald Event.

For Information Dealer like Elvis, events such as the Emerald Event were a great source of income. Simply put, it's a big business opportunity for them. After all, a lot of participants would like to know some information about where powerful Magical Beasts live so as to gain more points. There would also be a lot of people that would want to know a detailed report about their potential opponents and related stuff.

Elvis and his group, specifically called Night Ears, a group with a total of 20 people, joined a merchant caravan that was on its way to the Emerald Tree Kingdom. Of course, as an Information Dealer group, they already knew that this merchant caravan was just a normal one with nothing suspicious. In fact, the cause of their unfortunate situation wasn't the merchant caravan.

The road that they followed to travel towards the Emerald Tree Kingdom was also the road that the majority of the traveler used as it was a relatively safe road. Hence, they already knew what kind of danger they would most likely be going to encounter.

However, when they were finally only a few kilometers away from the Emerald Tree Kingdom, they encountered a group made up of hundreds or so of people. To be more precise, they have more people compared to the merchant caravan.

It wasn't the least bit surprising to be surrounded, since a situation like this does indeed happen from time to time in the Emerald Forest. The thing that surprised them instead was that these people were actually the natural enemy of the Elves, specifically the Slave Hunters.

The reason why Slave Hunters are the natural enemy of Elves is simply because they are considered as one of the most profitable products. Most of the people who like to buy slaves, in particular those people that are looking to have 'fun', would always choose to buy Elves. No other reason aside from that they are gorgeous and are very attractive.

Their situation was really surprising since Slave Hunters don't normally hunt for their targets in any places with a lot of people, especially nearby the capital city of that territory, which in this case is the Emerald City. It's simply because after successfully capturing their targets, they would still need to head on a journey towards where they would sell them to Slave Merchants. During that journey, they don't want a lot of people to see them, because there are also people that hunt for Slave Hunters, specifically the Bounty Hunters.

Though Elvis and his Night Ears group easily realized the reason why the Slave Hunters became daring enough to hunt for targets in nearby places with a lot of people.

The reason is the Emerald Event...

Information Dealers weren't the only people who think that events like Emerald Event are a big business opportunity for them. The Slave Hunters also have the same opinion. After all, basically, all the participants in the Emerald Event are putting the Magical Beasts that they have caught in cages before bringing them to the respective cities in Emerald Tree Kingdom, hence seeing another group of people pulling cages nearby wouldn't cause any suspicion.

Moreover, with the majority of the people in the Emerald Tree Kingdom participating in the Emerald event, it's already within expectations that it would be very chaotic. People wouldn't bother with other people, as they are all busy trying to catch as many Magical Beasts as possible in order to become one of the top 100, hence claiming a prize and becoming qualified to join the main event Emerald Elven Battle Competition.

Elvis and his Night Ear group easily arrived at the conclusion that this situation is almost similar to how the situation of hunters and hunted would unexpectedly be reversed from the hunters becoming the hunted and the hunted becoming the hunters. Simply put, the participants of the Emerald Event had become the targets of the Slave Hunters, just like how the participants target the Magical Beasts.

The merchant caravan was quickly surrounded by the hundreds or so of Slave Hunters.

That wasn't yet the end. The worst part is since they have joined a merchant caravan, there would naturally be a lot of Merchants in this group. And Merchants are basically the main customers of Slave Hunters, hence they weren't included in their list of targets, but on the condition that they would cooperate to let them easily capture those that aren't a part of their group.

Without any resistance, the Merchants quickly ordered their men to push forward those that aren't originally part of their merchant caravan and stay at the side.

Elvis and his Night Ear group were naturally included in that, but they don't blame the Merchants, it's understandable for them to react in such a way as they regard the safety of their group first more than the others.

But of course, it doesn't mean that Elvis and his Night Ear group, and also the other people that weren't originally part of the merchant caravan, can't fight back to also save themselves.

That's why, as soon as the Merchants stepped at the side, the battle immediately began.