100 Punishment for the Losing Company (1/2)
After five minutes, the slave stopped moving and died.
In the end, he had died to his transformation and not by Yale's sword even if he was injured by it before. Thus, he wasn't cursed.
However, even if he managed to reincarnate, he would be an ordinary beast without intellect or any relation to his past life as a human, all the memories about having been a human were erased when he lost his humanity.
That was enough curse to that slave; Yale felt that there was no need to risking his life to finish the slave with the sword.
The young man who was laughing before and wanted to turn Oscro into a half-beast had his mouth open in disbelief as Yale won the battle; he wasn't able to believe that he had lost and turned into a slave.
Oscro and Julie jumped into the arena and hugged Yale who had returned to the floor exhausted after the battle; both of them had been really scared when Yale was crushed.
After that moment of happiness, Oscro had decided what to do.
”All our new slaves come here!”
Oscro was angered to the other party's actions before, so he wanted to humiliate them publicly.
All the present members from the loser company went down to the arena in silence. They were unable to disobey Oscro's commands; they had signed a contract when agreeing to do the challenge, so they turned into slaves when Yale won, a single word of Yale or Oscro could kill them.
The same would have applied to Oscro if Yale had lost, that kind of contracts were scary, but Yale didn't fear them because he couldn't be affected by them.
The contracts affected the soul, and the Last Wish System was part of Yale's soul, the system had assured to him that no one would be able to enslave him. That was one of his main preoccupations before the challenge; he feared that even winning the battle, the other party would try something to enslave him.
There were fifteen new slaves kneeled in a row in front of them, including the young man from before.
”You were the ones who provoked this situation; I won't pity you. Furthermore, you give me a good idea before.”
Oscro looked at the young man while taking a small bottle from his spatial artifact, that was also monster blood, but it was only from Rank 1.
Drops of monster blood were useful to concoct body strengthening pills, so it was usual that merchants have some in stock. However, having some Rank 2 monster's blood like the young man wasn't normal for an unranked company.
Even if blood's strength was weaker than the one the dead slave had drunk before, the young man was only at the 9-star mortal realm, he was still weaker than the blood Oscro had taken out, so if Oscro forced him to drink enough, he would be corrupted by it.
Oscro forced the young man to drink the whole bottle; he didn't mind losing the blood as seeing the young man's suffering was all he wanted at that moment.
”Stop there! He is my little brother!”
Another man similar to the one who was drinking the blood jumped to the scene attacking Oscro, he was one of the gold rank company owners who had recommended the other company.
That man was at the 5-star Novice Warrior, no one in Yale's group could stop him.
However, that man's attack never reached them because an old man appeared and crushed the man's head without effort.
”I tolerated your shamelessness in the challenge due to having been accepted by some corrupted fellows in the association, and the rules say that if the challenge is accepted only the involucrated parties could change terms about it. However, I won't tolerate any other act that tarnishes the name of the merchant association.”
That old man was one of the elders of the merchant association, some of them were seeing the challenge as it was an official challenge issued inside the merchant association and they had detected something shady about it. However, they followed the rules and didn't act, even if they wanted to stop the battle after Yale draw his sword.