Chapter 213 The earthen tribe 3 (1/2)

Victoria followed after the people with the numbered necklaces on the street, on the way she tired to poke a woman with her shadow but got no response as the woman seemed to be in a daze.

'weird...'

The near formless shadow formed into a fist and just as it was about to smack into the woman the fist stopped as Victoria suddenly remembered something Mars had said.

'Right... One may only hit a woman if she asks for it specifically... There's a man, he will do.”

The shadow fist neared a man that also walked in a daze before it suddenly smacked him on the side of the face, the man's head flew to the side as he fell over from the force of the shadow fist. Victoria observed form her shadow as the man slowly got onto his feet again before he once again started walking along with the rest of the people.

'So hitting... them doesn't work...'

Victoria was at a loss for what to try next before she suddenly formed a shadow boot.

'Let's see... if kicking them... works...'

But alas before Victoria managed to carry out her experiment Mars arrived and asked.

”...What are you doing Victoria?”

In response to his hash question Mars got an innocent sound transmission.

”I'm just... trying to... wake them up?”

”Oh.... I see, well Victoria I don't think we want to wake them up right now.... How about we figure out where they are going first?”

”Okay...”

Along with Victoria's slightly disappointed sound transmission the shadow boot dissolved into nothingness. Mars gave a sigh and looked at the people that still was walking mindlessly past them without giving them as much as a glance, and noticed most of them were beastmen and some elvers and quickly came to a conclusion.

”So they are targeting natives of Alfan...”

Mars then walked over and activated his [Energy: sense] as he watched the necklaces they were wearing and gave a nod. A few minutes later before he turned to Victoria and the girls that had showed up before he said.

”Leave the city for now, I will follow after I find out what's going on with these people.”

The girls gave nods, only Yel looked a little anxious but she eventually also gave a nod and spoke.

”Only the earthen tribe is knowledgeable enough to make those necklaces, be careful master.”

”I will, oh hand me one of the necklaces I drained of energy.”

Mars received a necklace and quickly put it on before he joined the rest of the people walking mindlessly towards the center of town. After walking slowly for about half an hour before they reached a central plaza where big off road cargo vehicles waited. Mars slipped out of the crowd and into a dark alley, before he transformed his eyes so he could take a closer look at the situation. The crowd of people that wore the necklaces stopped and lined up in a row before the cargo vehicles and waited. A few minutes later a group of humans showed up, they were carrying a large number of boxes with them. They stopped at the ones that were at the front of the rows before they opened the boxes and pulled out a.... Collar before they removed the necklace from the one first in the row and put on the collar, then the person stepped into the cargo vehicle and the prosses repeated itself until there was no more people with necklaces, then the humans closed the cargo holds on the vehicles and they drove off towards the edge of the city. Mars watched all this happen from the edge of an ally with a deep frown on his face before he pulled off the necklace and threw it on the ground. Flying up into the air he watched as the cargo vehicles left the city from the west gate and continued out into the night.

'west huh... that's the direction of the portal...'

Mars shook his head and flew out of the city, could he save all those people form their unknown fate? Sure he could, but then what? Should he send them to Salen? Towards a continent they had never knew of? Mars shook his head and thought.

'I am the master of my own fate, not the master of theirs... If it's convenient in the future I will save them, else they should curse their own fate.'

With such slightly cold thoughts Mars flew out of the city and landed next to the girls and continued walking west while he shared his findings with the group. None of the girls objected with not saving the people, at least not on the surface, Mars looked over at Yel and asked her.

”Yel what are your thoughts?”

Yel collected her thoughts for a moment before she began talking.

”Back in our old world the earthen tribe had the biggest united empire on Beta. They also had the most advanced cities with advanced infrastructure so they probably need labor forces to rebuild here in Alfan...”

Mars continued.

”And so they need a labor force that can work until they die of exhaustion without anyone complaining about it so they quickly can return to their convenient lives?”

”....Yes it's probably as you say master.”