Chapter 193 The Unsteady Deal (1/2)
Aegin stared down the Slave Master, ”We're not going to be separated”.
He felt Ebony's hand tighten on his arm as the Slave Master stared back at them. His eyes narrowed in discontent, and without bothering to even look at the guards, motioned them forward.
Ebony felt Aegin tense beneath her fingers, and she slowly released him, sensing his readiness to move. Aegin, feeling Ebony release him, took it as permission to do what he needed to. The knots of rope around his wrists were loosened thanks to his working at it whilst they were on the move. As the two guards approached with spears points at Aegin, Aegin watched them.
The first guard tried to herd Aegin away from Ebony, only Aegin side stepped into Ebony and looped the rope around the spear. He drew it towards himself, throwing the guard off balance. Aegin grabbed the spear and used it to cut part of the rope. Even if they were only criminals on this island, evidently their weapons were still well crafted.
After that Aegin kicked out behind him where another guard had approached thanks to Aegin's attacks.
”Duck,” he said to Ebony. Unable to bend one of her legs, Ebony did the next best thing and fell forward, catching herself on her hands. He flinched from the pain, but didn't cry out as she watched Aegin lose the ropes around his wrists before he flipped the spear around, the end hitting one of the guards in the head hard enough for him to spit out a tooth.
Aegin paused, the spear up and ready as he looked at the two guards before him and the two guards behind. The rope was at his feet, and the Slave Master looked on, a mix of anger and intrigue.
”Useless idiots! Get him!”
The four guards moved forward together, only to be met with a combination of spear and flesh as Aegin did away with them. The guards in the external part of the room began to move in as Aegin moved, but they were too late as Aegin fought off the immediate four guards then used the seconds he had to spare by taking up the rope and tying a lasso into the end, he then took his discarded spear, planted it upright in the ground and jumped up. His foot kicked out towards one of the guards, both pushing the guard away and pushing Aegin around to another position where he threw the lasso.
The Lasso pulled tight around the surprised Slave Master and Aegin yanked him across the cold stone floor towards him. He then held the spear as he stood, stabbing it towards the Slave Master.
”Stop!”
Aegin's call froze the oncoming guards, who had no idea how to react to their boss being threatened. None of the other prisoners had ever had the gall to make such a move, nor the skill to get past six of them. The look on Aegin's face…they were positive he could have got through many more before he'd been overwhelmed.
”You'll never get off the Island,” the Slave Master spoke, his tone relatively calm for his current situation, ”You have no allies here”.
Aegin glared down at the Slave Master, ”I'm well aware of that. I only had one request, don't separate Ebony and I, yet you refused to listen”.
”You are aware of your situation and yet you still protest against it,” the Slave Master spoke, ”I sense you're going to offer me a deal?”
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Aegin smirked, ”I figure that a Slave Master like yourself is all about the profits. How much does the Warrior's Arena earn?”
”Enough to feed a kingdom five times over,” said the Slave Master, ”Even with all the disposables”.
Disposables? Was that how he thought of the warriors? The slave that were pitting their lives in there? Aegin wanted to feel disgusted, but he knew that he was running out of time. It would only be so long before the guards worked out that Aegin couldn't defend against all of them.