The dog-eared man gave Chiome a report of the situation.
She lightly nodded at the report before prompting me with a look.
I nodded to her before invoking 【Transfer Gate】 once again.
After leaving the new group with Chiome’s companions, we immediately went back and returned to the passage with all of the cells.
A number of people hung around the cell and were in the middle of getting the fetters off the remaining people while others were fighting off the guards that occasionally attacked.
The People of the Mountains and Plains were basically the only ones left, since all the human slave traders and guards had been almost completely wiped out. A couple of guards would occasionally launch an attack, but every time the fight started to turn into a match of endurance they would immediately retreat.
Since there wasn’t a lot of time left we began to gather the clamoring people into groups and taking them to the grass plain with 【Transfer Gate】.
When we had finished making all the round trips, more than a hundred People of the Plains and Mountains had been freed from the Etsuato company building.
They had all been confused and surprised by the situation, but once they realized that 【Transfer Gate】had taken them away from their prison to this grassy plain, one after another started to bow their heads towards me.
The only real problem was that some pieces of the destroyed cells and chains came along with everyone, which ruined the atmosphere.
“Everything has gone according to plan.”
Ariane muttered that as she removed her mask and lowered her hood as she stared back at the capital.
Pushing that thought into the back of my mind I nodded and said.
“I’ll go finish the job then.”
I used 【Transfer Gate】 and returned to the Etsuato company alone.
There were no other people inside the company’s building, and everything was covered by an eerie atmosphere because of the silence.
After making sure that not even a shadow of a living person was left inside I invoked a magic spell.
“【Stone Fangs】!”
When the intermediate level spell activated, stone spikes started to pierce the building from the ground, easily passing through the second floor at a sharp angle.
As all this was happening, the sound of the rumbling floor and the creaking building started to rock the area.
As a finishing blow, I began to fire 【Rock Bullet】 at the support pillars on the opposite side of the yard. When the dust settled, the pillars looked as if they were blown away with a howitzer. The sound of creaking started to get louder as the building could no longer support it’s own weight thus was on the verge of collapse.
It wasn’t long before the building started to collapse in on itself like a chain of dominoes.
Witnessing the events unfolding till the end, I invoked 【Transfer Gate】for the last time and returned to the grassy field.
Chiome called out to me while I was brushing off the dust from the collapsing building.
“Arc-dono, thank you for aid in this matter.”
Several of Chiome’s ninja companions turned in my direction and started to rise. Among them was a figure that I recognized.
He was dressed in similar ninja garb as Chiome and had triangular ears atop his head. He was two meters and thirty centimeters tall and had a body packed with steel-like muscle, he also projected the same atmosphere as the conqueror of century’s end.
This could be no one other than the turban wearing man I had seen in the capital earlier today.
Chiome introduced him as Goemon, one of the Blade Heart Clan’s six best ninjas.
I could totally believe that he could have destroyed a building’s gate with a single punch.
The man named Goemon held out his rough hand and silently demanded a handshake. I merely nodded and accepted the handshake, after which he began to flex his right bicep.
I didn’t understand the meaning but when I assumed a flexing pose he nodded in satisfaction before walking away.
I unmasked before giving Ariane a questioning glance, but she simply shook her head in response.
Without minding the atmosphere, Chiome continued to offer her thanks in a light tone.
“Ariane-dono, Arc-dono we can’t thank you enough for the help you provided this time.”
“This job helped us furthering our own agenda, so we didn’t mind.”
“As long as we could lend a hand. Where will you go from here?”
Our response was natural since we only helped Chiome for the information we needed.
Chiome looked up at a mountain range that laid in the horizon.
“I will be heading to the hidden village located in the Calcutta mountain range.”
“Havn’t your brethren built a large country on the southern continent?”
Ariane suddenly approached Chiome with a question about a country on a whole other continent.