Chapter 139: Intercepting the traffickers - IV (2/2)

Merlin avoided the strike, but the blade cut the vine that was attached to hied his daggers into the guard's heart, finishi+ng hiuard that was still standing upright, but he see that way, let alonehis sword arm, or perhaps he couldn't, as Merlin approached and cut hiuard that was on the floor died moments before Merlin even approached hiainst low constitution ene over at the drivers who seee array of e to drive away, but the re dragged underneath it Another driver had a dagger drawn and was slowly approaching hi on the floor, as he see horse as he was bucked off the driver seat

Merlinhi on the floor, and then he on and was currently a little bit down the road

It took hi to catch up with the vehicle Before the driver could do anything else, he felt his body go cold, only to look down and see a large vine piercing through his chest where his heart should have been

The driver was dragged off the wagon by the vine, it seerade, which Merlin had just noticed

The driver was thrown to the ground at Merlin's feet, and he stared up to see the face of a pale white porcelain owl staring back at him

"I don't think you're cut out for this line of work" Merlin taunted as the driver drew a knife and attee at him

Three vines flew out of Merlin's body, each piercing a large hole in the driver's torso

「Passive skill ⟪Rose Blight⟫ has triggered, target's stats have been reduced」

Surprisingly, the vines had actually killed the driver

"Woah, you guys got a pretty nice buff" Merlin mumbled compliments as he retracted his vines back into his body "Not sure if that's because of the raw attack daraded part of the skill, but not bad"

He looked around his surroundings, noticing that he left a little bit of a mess out of all the child traffickers

"I should probably clean this up before I free the kids, huh" He rab the driver's body before dragging him into the forest He found keys on the driver's corpse, sorabbed the that into the forest too, before riding the wagon back towards the other wagons

He tied the wagon down to another wagon before running around hiding all the dead bodies, obtaining the driver's keys and retrieving all the arrows that didn't break on contact

He cast cleanse on the salvaged arrows before throwing them in his inventory, he also threw the quiver full of poisoned arrows in his inventory

Fortunately nobody else seemed to be out on the road yet, or he'd have to quickly escape But once he was done, it was tions

He ripped the black fabric cover off the wagon, revealing that the inside of the wagon was just a largeany auards on the noble's payrolls"

Inside the cages were a large nu boys, packed within the cage They seeainst their bindings, let alone thearound with the keys he looted, figuring out which key belonged to which cage He eventually got the door opened, and began untying all the victims It was mostly children but there seeroup

He eventually finished freeing everyone, and once he had, he turned to the older looking individuals

"Start ate, it's highly likely that they are working with the human traffickers" He ordered, "And don't trust Madame Hartlace"