Taking advantage of the carnage

A guard came in to inform William about the arrival of the package, he then told the carriage to be brought to the back of the auctioning stage and the kids to be brought to the stage. With this he sent away the guard and he went before everyone and raised his wine glass to draw everyone's attention.

William spoke " Dear guests the auction is about to begin so kindly occupy the seats in the auction hall"

Acknowledging this the people who were feasting made their way to the auctioning stage and took their seats.The guards brought 100 kids to the stage, the age of the kids ranged from 5 to 10 and included both boys and girls. They were to be sold in batches. If their buyer is kind then they might be fed twice a day and only be made to work in houses or business establishments as servants, if their luck is bad then they will be put to all kind of tortures depending upon their buyers fetishes. Some of them were kidnapped,while some were sold by their parents but all the children were scared and clinging together. They didn't cry because they feared that they might get killed. The auction began and the people who came bid with great enthusiasm

Edward watched this from his hidden position, he had already planned to rescue these children and was waiting for the cavalry to arrive.

William displayed his talent as an auctioneer by the way he egged the various merchants to raise the bidding, William's family benefited the most from this illegal trade as they obtained 10% commission

without doing anything , all they have to do is to sell the children and deliver the money obtained to the slavers who sent the children. The reason that such a large family took part in this kind of job is because when they carry out business under their name then government officials would not interfere and most of the times the sold children were orphans and hence no one would actually care about them. Most of the children were bought by the Lord Enforcer as he was building a private army and children could be molded into the fiercest warriors or assassins. The auction was nearing its end when all of a sudden whinning sounds can be heard from backstage. William stopped the auction and went towards the sound , he found a small bag that was tied under the carriage that brought the children, when he untied the bag and opened it he saw a number of small animal cubs.William could tell that these were wild animal cubs but he didn't know why they were tied to the carriage, so he took the cubs to the stage and asked the guards who escorted the carriage but they knew nothing about it. William reached inside the bag and lifted a cub that looked like a bear cub but it had a tail, seeing that it was cute William decided to auction the animals as well. William was happy that he could make some extra money and nudged the cub with his fingers but the cub ferociously bit his fingers, it happened so quick that William didn't feel a thing. When the pain finally kicked in he screamed like a little girl and tossed the cub to the ground and kicked it. The cub kept howling in pain.

When the people down the stage saw William bringing out a bag they were curious as it might be some auction material, even Lord Enforcer was hyped when he saw the cub which William lifted. Others might not know that it was a spirit bear wolf king's pup but he knew it was more valuable than all the human children who were auctioned off earlier. As he was about to call a price the cub had bitten William's finger and got thrown down and kicked.

Enforcer was going to rebuke the fool William when a large roar was heard. The cub that was howling in pain responded to its parents call and howled back. Before anyone could make out the situation a large beast broke through the gate and climbed the stage. William was scared shitless when he saw the gigantic beast that looked ferociously at him with its blood thirsty crimson eyes.

Edward who saw the adult version of the beast was quite surprised and soon his lips cracked into a full faced smile.

The spirit bear wolf king had been tracking down its cubs smell all this while, Ed who had stolen its pup made sure he took a number of detours so that the beasts would arrive after sometime as he didn't want the children to be hurt by the beasts.

As it neared William's compound it heard the cries of its cub, it knew that its cub was hurt so it dashed towards its baby's cry, the huge army it brought also followed behind their king.

When the spirit bear wolf king saw that William had the same smell as the scent found in its cave it determined that he was the culprit. So it pounced on William who was too scared to even run. The spirit bear wolf king was naturally powerful as the Lord Enforcer so it just took a single bite to rip off William's head. William died without knowing how this all transpired. Seeing William get killed brought everyone back to reality. The Enforcer didn't care about William as he set his eyes on the spirit bear wolf king and its cub, if he could just kill the parent he could obtain many valuable items from its carcass and he could tame its cub. With this thought in mind he ordered all the guards to surround and attack the wolf king at once. But before the guards could react to the command numerous wild beast breached the compound and started to attack indiscriminately. Seeing this the enforcer had no choice to retreat but just as he turned to leave a small fist flew towards his face, as it was sudden he couldn't dodge it and received the attack head on. He never imagined that the small fist had such a large power and he was blown away towards the wolf king. The culprit was none other than Edward who was patiently hiding in the shadows.

Lord Enforcer who got blown by the punch was dazed for a second and then he tried to find his assaulter but to his dismay he couldn't find who hit him, but he got bigger problems to worry about at present because the wolf king just pounced on him along with several members of its pack. If the wolf king had attacked alone he could have dodged it and put up a fight but now he could only suffer as thousands of teeth piercing into his flesh. He tried his best to break out of the encirclement but he never got the chance as the wolf king had choked his wind pipe. He died miserably.

Edward after ensuring that the Enforcer got caught by the wolf king went to help the children. The kids who were sold earlier were shackled in chains and were unable to defend against the wild beasts, but to their surprise the beasts were fended off by a dwarf in black clothing , before they could thank the dwarf , it dragged them by their chain and threw them towards the carriage that transported them and locked them inside.

The dwarf was naturally Ed who made sure that all the children were securely locked within the carriage, after finishing this task he moved on to his main task that is to steal money from those gathered here.

All the people who took part in the auction were filthy rich and they had a lot of valuables on them but Ed was not stupid enough to rob them as they were hard to dispose off and could easily get him caught. So Ed only prioritized silver coins that were used to buy the kids , this money was still in the auction table, Ed used his maximum speed to retrieve it , then he made sure all the people who hid from the beasts to get caught.

Ed's job here was finished and from the commotion here the people from the village would definitely reach here soon , so Ed decided to bail out.

Just as he was about to leave something caught his eyes , it was the ring on the dead body of the Lord Enforcer, it shone lightly. Ed for some reason was attracted to it so he decided to take it with him.

He made sure to move very fast as he tore of the ring along with the finger, as he didn't have the time to leisurely take out the ring.

After he exited the compound he took numerous detours before he entered the village, by now some of people heard about the beast attack and were starting to move.

Ed changed to normal clothes and kept the money in a small back pack he hung over his shoulder, as he was making his way towards his house he saw Rose sitting outside her home. Since he had a good impression of her he decided to do her a favor.

Rose was sitting outside enjoying the night breeze, for some reason she couldn't sleep, just as she was about to get up and enter her house a familiar figure emerged from the surrounding bushes. It was Ed, she was surprised to find him awake too, as she was about to call him Ed came towards her hurriedly and in an anxious tone he said that he heard people speaking about a beast invasion.

Rose was surprised at why Ed was saying this to her.

Ed then spoke "Hey Rose your father is a hunter right, if he goes there with his team he might kill a lot of beasts!"

Rose then knew why Ed had approached here and immediately went inside her home to inform her father leaving behind Ed who had a smile plastered on his face.