Chapter 57 Into the mountains. (2/2)

War slaves were mostly just prisoners of war Captured soldiers would be taken in as slaves after losing a skir nobles from another country could end up like this if they lost to another empire

Debt slaves were people withon how much they accumulated and ho they could end up in slavery if they couldn’t pay up Sometie and they would be in this category

In this world, a person wouldn’t be able to easily escape after they were branded a slave People would earn this title through trial by judge This title would show up during identifications via skills or ical devices

Most of the ti sentence The title would then stick with the person till the end of their life There were certain ways of re it, this mostly happened after a master was acquired This person could then set the slave free after a small ritual

The title didn’t compel the slave to follow his or her master’s orders The person still needed to be kept in check There ays of doing it, the easiest as by the use of slave collars These devices came in various shapes and sizes The slaves mostly wore them around their necks There were also ss and bracelets

The slave collars would give out electrical discharges to the person wearing the pain to the affected person and were activated by a slave owner’s remote device Some collars even added explosives that would cause instant death but were erous offenders

“Here you go, eat up!”

Roland was handed so lady He just nodded with his head while thanking her and walked a bit to the side Luckily no one had decided to talk to hireatest but it was better than the driedto the side he eavesdropped on so, oods are a bit special this tio for a steep price”

The ones talking were the guards frooods’ that they were talking about were probably the slaves inside it This also explained the iron bars but even without theet far if they had the slave collars on theons with them Three for the slaves to be sold off and another one for the workers and soldiers He was interested in these special ‘goods’ but not enough to snoop around This was the reality of this world, he had to think about hi up he decided to return to the back of the carriage cart Sos out in the open Roland had no tent and he would rather just lean against a crate with a blanket over himself than spend it outside

The adventurers took turns on guard duty and the night went past without a probleet inthe bouts of sleeplessness, he just trained his mana reinforce in particular happening On the second day the caravan suffered a s boar monsters appeared Roland didn’t need to act, the adventurers were h to handle this small beast attack This even allowed the people to feast on some monster boar meat which was quite a delicacy in these parts

After the show of strength, Roland started worrying less about the continued journey ahead The people protecting theroup of tier 2 monsters appeared they should be safe on their journey They weren’t traveling through lands with many powerful monsters so it seemed like the expedition to his neould be uneventful

The day turned into night and nothing out of the ordinary was happening Roland continued to listen to the other people speak while training his new skill He could feel that histhe third level was on the horizon

At about half ons arrived at apath that stayed close to the cliffs with not le room This was the part of the trek that Roland orried about One wrong step or a scared ani down the cliffs

He broke off his ilant He still lacked any type of detection skill so he took out one of his runic devices It was just a round piece of metal that was the size of an apple

This was a corade detection spell that he crafted He placed it on a round piece of etrepaired but due to the thickness, it would last him for a while

This ite creatures in a set radius The ave it a try and activated the detection device but frowned the moment he did

‘There are too many people here…’

The device showed hie with a lot of dots These dots were people in near proxi was the ethe whole space

This item only had two colors, blue and red Blue would be people of the races while red would be monsters It was also tricky to tell if someone was above or below the user of this ite orbs on a flat surface

‘This is what I get for not testing it out in the field It would probably ell in a dungeon corridor though’

He shrugged while leaning back in the cart, he started periodically activating the iteical radar that had only about 50 her and were now reaching the top of thisit they would just need to descend to reach the other side After this, it would be s to the port city That is, if they made it…

Roland used his detection ite the blue dots out of boredoes of this radar He quickly did a double-take and could see the blue dots approaching

At first he thought thatthis route That theory was quickly abolished by an arrow lodging itself into the wooden box he was leaning against

“Bandits!”

Roland looked at his detection ball and wanted to toss it out of the wagon he was in He quickly looked outside his cart and could see the adventurers and guards getting ready for a fight The biggest probleround

“Of course this would happen just ere about to reach the top…”

He griical wand, he wasn’t sure if the adventurers would be enough to take out these bandits He et his hands dirty