Boban laughed it off. “Surely, the mages would have told me. They also mentioned that you are only a 1st Circle Aura Knight.”
Leo smiled and said, “Yes, they would have told you. But there are things that even they don’t know about me. For example, did you know that I was a mage?”
Boban laughed harder. “I thought you were smart to hide your Aura till it was time to run away, but you are just delusional.” He got closer.
As he got closer, he saw Leo’s appearance change. Suddenly, his expression changed. Instead of Leo in front of him, he saw Orion.
“Hello, Chief Boban. How are you?” He asked with a smile on his face.
Boban immediately took a couple of steps back with fear. “You… you are a mage! How did the mages not find out?” He asked.
“Personally, I think it’s a skill issue. Your mages aren’t really that strong.” He said.
Boban suddenly smiled. “Wait. If you are really a mage, why didn’t you act then? Why did you run out? And you also used aura back there. This isn’t possible.” He said.
Leo shot a Shadowbind bolt at Boban, binding him in his current place. “Actually, it is. Now, I am not advertising to everyone that I am a mage, so I am going to need to get rid of the evidence. Namely, you.”
He slashed with his dagger, cleanly killing Chief Boban. After doing that, he didn’t change his appearance back and kept walking to the room that he had run away from.
He got there pretty quickly and could see that the nobles were restlessly moving around. Only one person was sitting calmly on the sofa.
“It has already been an hour, and neither of them are back. I think we should leave,” one of the ladies said.
The person sitting calmly on the sofa shook her head. “No. I need the boy to show off to my friends. I don’t like being boring. We will wait till he comes here,” she said.
As she said that, two bolts streaked past the frightened teenagers standing in a single file and hit the two mages in the room. The mages were immediately bound up in shadow tendrils.
Leo walked into the room. He looked at the people on the side. “Leave,” he said.
They immediately ran away. They didn’t know if he was a good person or a bad person, but they followed his orders. Meanwhile, the nobles there became incredibly angry.
“Who are you? Do you know how many families your family will have to face if you do not take down your restraints?” One of the men said.
Leo smiled. “Do you know how illegal it is to buy slaves?” He asked them.
They all became flabbergasted. Eventually, the lady on the sofa stood up.
“I am the 7th daughter of the Marquis of Fairmount. I am sure you would like to consider that the Fairmount Family is an opponent you would rather not face.” She said.
“I don’t think they particularly care if they lose one of their 20 children. Sure, they would find it demeaning that someone did this to them, but who would they tell it to? Who would actually dare to say that the body of… whatever your name is, was found in a village inhabited by commoners?” He asked.
He was starting to feel anger rush through his veins. Ever since he entered the room, he felt the arrogance the nobles had and wanted to crush it to the ground. The thought of nobles brought up the thought of Solhaven, only furthering his emotions. He realized what it was doing to him, and decided to end it.
“I apologize, I must have been too harsh on all of you.” He said.
The nobles breathed out a sigh of relief. Their expressions contorted to his next words.
“I will make your deaths painless.”
Leo unleashed a barrage of Flame Bursts, completely destroying the room. In just a few seconds, all 6 of the nobles died. He walked forward and checked if anyone of them had dimensional rings, but only found them on the lady from the Marquis Family.
He took it off and checked what was in it. He didn’t want to risk there being some magic spell that could track the dimensional rings. Since he already had a lot of dimensional rings, he decided to pour the contents of the ring into his own.
The lady only had a bunch of money in her ring, so he just took it with a smile and put the ring back on her finger. After that, he decided to move forward, using the other exit of the room. He wanted to see if there was anything the nobles left that he could use to get back.
He walked straight until he reached an exit. The exit led to a ground that had a stone path that lead to the building. There was a stable on the side and three carriages parked there. There were a few horses in the stable too.
He walked toward them and was ready to take one of the horses and leave, but he stopped. He could sense that there was someone in one of the carriages. He walked to where the person was and saw that it was the most lavishly decorated carriage.
The cage was filling up a third of the space inside the carriage. Inside it was a boy that looked like he was Leo’s age. He had a little aura in his body, but it didn’t help him enough. He looked incredibly weary and exhausted.
The boy was asleep, but when Leo opened the door, the boy could hear it and stirred awake. The boy noticed that the light was shining into the carriage and immediately stood upright.
“Hello, Lady Fairmount. You look exceptionally beautiful today.” He said. His eyes were half closed, and his tone was incredibly fearful.
“You don’t have to worry. I’m not Lady Fairmount.” Leo said.
The boy looked at Leo with surprise. He had expected that it was going to be the lady that opened the carriage to get into it.
“Well, this is the carriage of Lady Fairmount, so you should quickly get away. If she sees you, you will be punished.” He said.
“What’s your name?” Leo asked the boy.
“I am Marcus.” He said.
Leo laughed it off. “What’s the worst that can happen if I intrude into the Lady’s carriage, Marcus? A few lashes?” He asked.
The boy’s expression turned sunken. “You can become like me.” He said gloomily.
Leo noticed the shift in mood and started laughing. “Well, that’s history. Want to get out of here?” He asked Marcus.
Marcus was confused. “I’m a slave. If they find out that I escaped, they will track me down and kill me. They cannot let the word of me being their slave spread out to the world.” He said.
Leo’s smile faded. “Well, I was just saying. Because you will have a hard time anyway since your lady just died and all.”