Crimson Magister

Chapter 6

Golden Fang could see it, the City of Razul, a jewel of trade and the target where he will deliver the captive and reap the rewards of lifetime.

He ran out of wind stones a while back, but he was thankful he had enough on his person to last him until the end of the mission.

Fang chuckled to himself as he thought 'At least Observer fulfilled his promise of allowing us safe passage through the border'

Moment the carriage exited the Ebon Forest everyone could notice a large shift in elevation, while forest was unnaturally flat anything outside it was surrounded by hills and uneven natural terrain which made the forest seem even more unnatural.

When viewed by flyers the forest would be described only as shallow crater.

He recalled on how weird the guards acted around him, it was like they weren't themselves once he spoke, the man was incredibly suspicious and yet they were here, just mere minutes before they enter the city and deliver the captive to the client.

'I know he plans on something, but I must not judge this early' Fang nodded in his mind.

At the moment they entered the city they were surrounded by marvellous large intricate buildings opposing both sides of the path, with carriages and various beasts of burden going their way, with pedestrian citizens walking on the sides.

All his Golden Rose had to no now was to deliver the captive to the underground lab that observer would lead them to.

City of Razul was never a large city, but even despite its relatively small size it was center of trade of Duchy of Razul, it was only established trade route connecting Ebon Forest with the Red Dawn, the city was lighted up by magical lamps as far as eye could see and everything surrounding the city itself knew no night.

But the trade was not what would be expected of a border city, this city trade was made mostly of slaves captured from other countries in large consisting of Elven and Dwarven kind with occasional Lizardman.

City of Razul is where all captured non humans were taken to be broken and trained for nobility and residents of blessed cities.

The captives were all processed in special facility located in western quarter of the city, a new slave would be sent to the imposing metallic gray building surrounded by a fence akin to the prisons where they would be trained ,educated and neutered unless they were selected as breeding stock.

It is said that the training was so effective that the slave would be under similar effect as mind control, and unlike the spell it could never be dispelled.

It wasn't know how it was done but all of their minds would only be repurposed as tools for their new masters, in a way they were similar to golems and automatons.

It was speculated that Inquisitor of Mind had something to do with the special training and processing of new slaves but it was far too absurd for most that one of inquisitors would bother with such menial tasks.

Each month a new batch would be processed and driven off to auction houses in other duchies, while defective goods would be discarded and turned into fertilizer so that they may serve God King in death.

City itself was surrounded by a thick stone wall, with layers of magical enchantments placed upon them which gave them bluish glow, the enchants which could deflect even ancient dragon's breath were placed by Inquisitor of Water long ago while it was sustained by the amazing sentient artifact held by the lord of Razul.

As a city blessed by one of Inquisitors themselves people living here were awarded many benefits, it was utopia as defined by the god king.

Each resident was granted a free elven slave of their preferred gender for less physically intense work and one dwarven slave to use for heavy manual labour while they could earn additional slaves by serving god king.