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These days, Ozul was getting quite frustrated. It had been 7 whole days since they've been searching, and except for a few Beasts, they found nothing.

He had also noticed the increased sightings of Mercenaries in the City.

It was the 8th night when Ozul was finally relieved of his boredom. That was when Ozul received the call from Blaze.

Every night, they would split up to search around. This time, Blaze had found something!

Blaze had it really hard to see in the night. But this time around, He had noticed a small shadow in one of the alleyways near his area!

This shadow only caught his attention because of the muffled sounds near it. He did not wait for another moment before jumping right into the alleyway.

When he approached, he could see the back of a man wearing a dark hood trying to restrain a child around five years old!

The child had his hands strapped together, and his mouth had been covered using a piece of cloth.

It was apparent that the man in the hood was kidnapping that child! He did not give it a second thought and contacted both Raven and Ozul.

The man in the hood heard the noise and turned out to find a man in cyan hair staring at him. He was stunned as to how that person got so close to him.

”W-who are you!? It doesn't matter, you've seen me. I can't let you go!”- The man was afraid, but he did not back down.

In a panic, he took out his dagger and moved forward to stab Blaze. But just as he was about to close in on him, he saw his feet freezing!

Only now did he realize that the opponent in front of him was a Mage! His hands started to shake, and the dagger dropped on the ground. He knew that he stood no chance.

. . .

Sometime later, Ozul and Raven arrived at the scene.

Ozul saw an unconscious child tied at the side, and in front of Blaze was a crying man!

The man also had his hands tied while he was on his knees. Snot came running from his nose as he sniffled occasionally.

”Did he speak?”- Ozul asked.

”He is a wimp. I didn't even have to do anything before he told me everything.”- Blaze said while his eyes showed disgust towards the man.

”So? What do we have here?”- Raven asked. It seemed as though she was also irritated when they could not find any lead in the previous days.

”He is just a normal thug. They paid him to kidnap any kid between the age of six years to 13 years. There are others like him as well.”- Blaze began to explain.

The man himself was nothing special. He was only a Rank-1 Fighter. He said that he was approached by a man who offered him a massive sum of money just for bringing him some children!

The man could not think straight when he saw the pouch of gold coins in front of him! Since then, he had been kidnapping children for that man.

But this time, the kid who should've been unconscious woke up, and Blaze heard his muffled voice.

The thug himself knew nothing about what they did to these children. And honestly, he did not care either.