Fairy Tail: The Dark Swordsman

10 - Unison Raid

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— Dannis Martell —

"Laxus!"

"I know!"

We fucked up.

Yep, there was no way to sugarcoat this.

We fucked up.

After we left the mayor's office, we decided to do our own little investigating to find where the smugglers were hiding.

They already kidnapped 20 people, which means that the victims must be held somewhere in the city. It had to be big to hold that many people and isolated enough that no one would stumble onto them by chance.

Then there was also the question of how they leave the city itself. Apparently, this wasn't the first time something like this happened. These kidnappings have been going on for the past few months and every time, the kidnappers are always able to get out scot free.

Which means that they have a set system in place, a plan to get out of the city with the kidnapped people and doing so without attracting the attention of the local authorities.

Our investigations led us to scour some abandoned warehouses on the outskirts of the city. It was the most viable solution after all. However, after spending a few hours snooping around, we found nothing.

But it seems that our actions caught the attention of some nefarious thugs, which I assumed to be the grunts of the slavers.

We were ambushed as we exited the last warehouse that we were checking and were surrounded by around ten of them. We weren't worried of course. After all, my Clairvoyance made sure to warn me of their arrival.

Laxus and I just looked at each other before grinning like madmen. Could you blame us? It was a chance for a real clue. These thugs being absolutely dumb was a literal godsend.

5 minutes later, they all lay face down on the ground bruised all over. We made sure not to kill any in case they had any information.

And apparently they did, it wasn't hard to get the info out of them. Just a few threats here and there from Laxus about shocking their balls off would get anyone to talk.

What we learned was troubling. Evidently, the smugglers do get in and out of the city through the harbor. They disguise themselves as a merchant ship from Bosco with the intent to trade. But the shocking thing was that one of the slavers was a mage with Spatial Magic and access to his own pocket dimension.

According to the grunt, the mage is able to store anything inside this pocket dimension and any living creatures enter a form of stasis when put inside it. Apparently, he was a former rune knight from Bosco before turning into a slaver. Zenon, the guy said his name was.

Suffice to say, Laxus and I were shocked. To think someone with magic like that would squander their potential to become a slaver.

What a waste.

Another of their bosses was a guy named Dante, who was also a former rune knight. He had bone magic and was apparently considered pretty strong.

"How do we identify your ship?" I asked the cowering grunt as Laxus sparked his body in electricity to imply that the threat is still in the air.