Apotheosis Of A Demon – A Monster Evolution Story Chapter 14 (2/2)

Wait a o? She still looked like a 20 centiain, but nothing had changedI suppose it wouldn't, considering that I was the one who killed itShe only ate the corpseIf you could raise your level just by eating, then all the people of royal and noble faet

I walked, inane s in my mind, and stepped past the forest border before I knew it

Trees were still there, but sparseMost of the land was grassI scouted the area for huotten close to civilizationNo signals I found reserasslandsThey looked like plesiosaursSeeher combat power thanthe boundary between the forest and and grasslandIt didn't take long for me to find a well-trodden roadFinally! About 5 hway between towns

Hu me would be bad, so I put up rass and copses of treesThen I heard sounds of fighting from somewhere far offI put Blobsy on my head and hurried

A while after, I sao horse carriages being attacked by a sroup of peopleA perfectly clichéd scene

Horses? So this world had trains, but not cars? A closer look revealed a group of spear-wieldingten-odd, and lookingand cat-eared beastpeople wearing ratty clothes

“Don't let those daet any closer!” A chubby hueThree beastpeople readied their handaxes, faces close to tears, their necks bound by the saician who attacked the elves

I supposed that proved my slave-choker hypothesis, thenAnd that was some seriously impossible ordersThree slaves with handaxes and knives, wearing nothing but rags, couldn't possibly hope to win against ten-plus decently equipped bandits

As I got closer to the scene, Blobsy hid inside the cloak's pocketShe seee bandit, probably their boss, laughed uproariously“Leave a carriage for us, and we'll spare your life! Coave the order to his ss, yet the men didn't moveInstead, four well-armed beastman slaves came forward, their neck bound by the sa with slaves? Just giving orders?

Once the bandits' slaves found out they were about to fight their own people, their faces stiffened in anguish, and they feverishly shook their heads

…was this another game event? I only ever saw demihuman slavesIf this wasn't an event, then what the hell was this world's 'hulued to the sceneApparently the chokers could co with tears in their eyes

“D-daoods! If you lose, I'll send your kids to the ht harder! What, do you not care for your precious friends and fae owner and the bandit leader didn't spare a second thought before using intimidation as their first choice of motivation

I didn't even have the chance to interfere before all the trader's slaves were stabbed to deathNone of the bandits' died, and only one had a rather serious wound on his armThe battle was over in a blink of an eye

“damn useless vermins! Waste of money!” The trader swore obscenities at his dead slaves while kicking their corpses

The bandit leader looked satisfiedHe ordered his es

“Bwahaha! Alright, I'll take that oneBetter get some better slaves next tilanced over the wounded slave and nonchalantly ht, youCan't use you now, can I?”

He stabbed a spear right through the bleeding slave

“Hey, merchant! Compensate for that one too!”

The trader reluctantly acquiesced, his old coins

…an unspoken agreement, perhaps, between the merchants and the banditsTo turn banditry into a proxy battle, with slaves the only one getting hurt

The group of bandits leisurely walked off with one carriageThehis slaves for quite a whileHis driver had had to caleThe four dead slaves were thrown to the roadside and ignored

…was this really a gainal plan was to ai on travelersBut now, I couldn't pick a sideI didn't want to pick a side

Theuarantee I could find theainAt least I remembered all their faces

'Hey, BlobsyWhich side should I go for?'

She crawled out of my pocket and bounced in the directions of the bandits

I seeThe ht?

'Hey, can you track the bandits without letting them know?'

She bounced her reply

'I'll be dealing with the trader, first