Slave Market

in the slave market, he is presented with a sight he seen a few times as he went to help free slaves from slave traders before, even seeing it again, it still sickened by it as people were put on display like items, though, as bad as this was, it's worse than that.

Slave Trader:" welcome customer, how may I help you... I see you're a man who carries around some fine item's, would I recommend this item here"

Alcaeus clenched his fist as he pointed to a woman and called her an item, but no, he wasn't here for his most expensive slaves, he was after something more... in dire need of attention.

Alcaeus:" no thank's, I'll see what you have in the back"

Slave Trader:" are you sure you don't want anything in here sir"

Alcaeus:" but the back is where you keep the slaves that are dying or sick, isn't that right, it's also why they're cheap and affordable in mass"

Slave Trader:"... I see, you're looking for many slaves, just so you know, if any of them die, no refund is possible with a corpse"

Alcaeus:"... let's just go"

getting in the back, he saw something that made him nearly vomit, many people of many races sick, dirty, and near death, in the front, they clean them to make them presentable, but here, this is what it truly was, and Alcaeus had the slave trader tell him specifically how or why the people were enslaved, and with that, it took about half an hour, but he knew who he was going to buy, at least 15 of the slaves back there were criminal's, but only 2 seemed to have a good reason since noble's killed their families and they wanted revenge, and thus, he spent about an 8th of his saving's on the slaves and went in front to buy the more expensive ones, he did buy the women since he knew they'd probably be raped if not freed, and some of the children who were forced to be assassin's and or destined to be prostitutes since he knew that was common.

slave Trader:" my my my, you're the big spender my good sir, I guess a noble's life is a luxurious one, am I right"

Alcaeus:" I don't plan on keeping them, I'm setting them free, all of them, don't lump me in as a noble who sees people as mere items like you or anyone else"

Slave Trader:" is that so... seem's like a waste of money to me, buying something only to set it free and get no use out of it, then again, it's not like I care what you do with them at all anyway, as long as I get paid, I hardly care if and what you do with them, besides, if an owner break's his own item's after I already sold them to him, I no longer have a say in the matter anyway"

and with that, he spent almost all the money he had on him at the time, but he had a little under 200 slaves in his contract now, and since slave traders have about 250 slaves at a time, he freed almost all of them aside from the criminals who put themselves in that position in the first place at least, and immediately after getting them, he gave the sick and dying medical attention, he gave the hungry food, and they all also got clothes to all and armor with weapons to the slaves who were able to fight or the one's who could fight, due to his treasury, he was able to get many of these without spending a single Ecuro.

after a few hour's of medical attention, about 14 of the sick and dying slaves died from their conditions, and for the rest, they were freed as promised with enough food, water, and even a bit of coin with about 10,000 Ecuro each, the former slaves asked why he did this, and he said simply.

Alcaeus:"... because I can't stand to see someone suffer and be a slave when they could be given a good life... I hope you all can live your new lives now, head to the Oni kingdom, you should be safe there, as you were all former slaves, they will take you in"

he then left as the people were in awe as he left, but they would never forget this. back at home, he was shown a special item as the family was known for its great inventor, though, he was working on a project that never succeeded even when he worked all his life on it, but when Alcaeus asked to see what it was like, he was allowed as he then walked inside of this structure, and when he looked at it, he did see the invention was well made, though it was falling apart due to its age, but he got the layout of it, and then thought of something, he then asked his parent's if he can use his magic to store it and he got permission, and then, he fixed it up and improved it, he then got an idea since he found something else out about his magic on it.

after about 4 days of waiting since he became a noble, Aspelis showed up about 3 days earlier than anticipated as she was out of breath and looked hungry and thirsty as well.

Alcaeus:" Aspelis, how did you get here so fast"

Aspelis:" I (huffing) ran for (huffing) 4 day's (huffing) straight (huffing) day (huffing) and night"

Alcaeus:" okay, here's some water and soup for you, and a blanket to wrap yourself in, but can you stay awake a little longer, I want to show you something that will blow your mind"

Camilla:" oh good, she's here, though how will we travel, are we taking a carriage"

Alcaeus:" much better, come on"

Aspelis:" can... one of you... carry me"

Abigail:" I got her, come on, whatever this is, he hid it from us for now, but it seemed that Uther and Igraine were ecstatic about it, and Morgan said we'll be blown away"

Sharifa:" I don't know what it is, but it should help us he said"

going to an open area, they find an oddly made boat with some sails on its side, and the main and fore sails were tilted to act almost like a shade cover instead of dragging wind like a sail should on a normal boat to move it forward, it can't really sail in the water at all due to its odd placement fo window's in the hull area, and it didn't seem well made to go in the see with 2 side holders on its side, holding it up to stay on land which was bad in designing a ship since it wouldn't float to well, worse yet, there was no rutter, anchor, and it had a doorway in the part they thought would be in the water, they wondered what this was, as well as it having this design in the first place, if it were only for decoration, it would be interesting, but how would this help them.

Sharifa:"... this is... interesting, but how does this help us"

Alcaeus:" oh just wait, just stay on the upper deck and look to the side, you'll all be surprised"

getting on board, they are on the side as Alcaeus then goes to the gem area in the captain's room and activates it, then, something strange happened, the sail's opened and a magical field was made on it, Sharifa felt the magic and then something odd happened, the oddly shaped ship then started to float as this ship then started to fly, and this blew all their mind's like Morgan said it would.

Sharifa:"... am I seeing right"

Aspalis:" I heard of this, an inventor tried making a special ship that flew, this is"

Camilla:" AN AIRSHIP"

Alcaeus:" surprised, with my magic, I can edit the problem with it, you see, the only reason it didn't work back then was because it took to much mana from the magic crystal at once to work, so all I did was lessen the magic needed with my editing ability with my magic and I was able to fix it, I also learned if I have material's stored, I can use or repurpose them later, so after some real hard work, I was able to make this the way it is now"

Aspalis:"... this was worth not passing out to see... now if you'll excuse me, I need to pass out"

she then fell limp as she passed out to sleep, Abigail then took her to one of the beds as they all were now admiring the airship, seeing all the thing's in it, and also exploring it as they were giddy and happy, they couldn't believe their eyes as they were in something so out of this world, somewhat, but it was new.

Camilla:" I want to have dozen's of these for my army, loaded with lot's of explosives, I'd devastate my enemies while being near untouchable"

Abigail:" I'd be able to transport my people from place to place without much trouble from see condition's or walk to place to place"

Sharifa:" I'd be able to travel from place to place without needing to worry about bandit's or monster's as much"

Alcaeus:" but wouldn't you be a very visible target, and it's not moving all to fast, so it may be easy to hit, also, it may not take to much from a direct magic attack, as well as there being many flying enemies and monster's to consider"

Camilla:" don't ruin it for us"

Alcaeus:" anyway, I still need to find out a way to battle the dragons"

Sharifa:" can't you just do what you did with your spear one time and make it explode like last time"

Alcaeus:" I tried that once, the dragon was to tough"

Abigail:" dragons are hard to kill, Artemis made it look so easy, but she says herself they are difficult since arrow's don't kill them that easily, even when shot in the eye"

Alcaeus:" though I will say this, I need to be creative, maybe if I could use my magic somehow to help me..."

Camilla:"... you know, you can create weapon's, but when you put energy in them, they gain lot's of power, right"

Alcaeus:" yes"

Camilla:" so why not pack so much energy in them, they'll explode with such a force that it will kill a dragon in one hit"

Alcaeus:" there is a limit to how much magical energy I can store in an item based on the material it's made of, I can't tell when I get the weapon on just the amount of magical energy it needs before it would start breaking when it strikes something, but I can tell when I give it to much as it would no longer take any more magical energy, so it's not that easy"

Sharifa:"... you made a statue out of Elffiona, right"

Alcaeus:" the magic material found in elven lands, yes, I did one time since you broke the one that was made for your mother before, yes, why"

Sharifa:" that stuff is able to be packed full of magical energy, heck, it's commonly used in most of the best and most powerful magic staff's to concentrate magic and increase their effectiveness and power, meaning, if you made an arrow, sword, or spear out of them and put as much magical energy as you can in them and let it rip"

Alcaeus:"... you're right, let's test it out... there, that look's like an empty field"

in an empty field, Alcaeus make's an arrow out of Elffiona with as much power as it can store and fired it about 10 miles away, and the explosion was so big, he almost accidentally blew them all up, and then found this may work, but there was one problem.

Alcaeus:" okay, the arrow will work, that explosion was so big and powerful, even a dragon would find a hard time surviving it unscathed, but... what happens when I need to kill it with a spear or sword"

Camilla:" let's cross that bridge once we get there... no, let's solve it now, if we don't, we'll only waste time on trying to solve it once we are meet with it, better to address it now than later since we don't have time, but we can't waste to much time can we"

it was then they were set in motion, how to save Makeda before it was to late, and not to mention, the people working in the shadow's as of now.