Bab 10: New Slave

"Huuuuuuhhhh!" The sound of a deep breath being taken ringed throughout the stick hut, as Huo's eyes fluttered open. Deep amazement flashed through his eyes as he sat upon his palms.

"I thought you killed me!" Huo said as he looked at Ran who standing in front of him still looking at the Frim Reaper tattoo that had appeared on Huo's center-chest area. Huo was puzzled at first before he sent mana throughout his body to check on his condition. As he was scanning through his body he noticed that an ominous pressure was hanging right above his heart, as if it was ready to drop down at any moment.

As he looked deeper, he noticed that the pressure stayed right where he was stabbed in the heart. Huo opened his eyes as he directed his gaze down to his chest area he saw that a skeleton in a cloak, armed with a scythe was tattooed onto his chest area right above his heart!

"What is this!?" Huo asked as he refocused his gaze to Ran who was now looking at him with a straight face, it showed no anger or joy. It was clear that that voice had taken back his emotion of Joy. He was once again a doll without any feelings.

"Isn't it obvious, that is the Slave Seal, you are officially my slave!" Ran announced with a strong emotionless voice as he stared down at Huo. "Get up." Ran said to Huo who was still sitting on the ground. Huo was too weak to get up, he was about to open his mouth when "Aghhhhh!" a splitting pain emerged in his soul, as it felt as of someone was skinning him alive and ripping his brain out from his skull.

He clenched his teeth, as he grabbed his legs and hugged himself into a fetal position. No matter what Huo did the pain did not go away, Ran sat there looking at him without a single change in his expression.

"So early in your career as a slave, and yet you already wanted to disobey!" Ran said

Huo was confused, it was clear that Ran did not use the command that a Slave Contract has.

Every slave contract had a command to punish their slave, and the most common one obeyed. Once that word was said the slave would feel very terrible pain, and sometimes Slave Master's even set up a command to directly kill their slaves. Yet Ran had clearly not done any of this, as he recalled the formation that he was sacrificed in, he kept finding it weirder and weirder. Why would you need to stab the heart of the slave?

Huo knew all of this because he had a number of slaves in his family, as the Youngest Master of a viscount how could he not have many slaves? Somewhere just for cleaning and others were even there to satisfy his sexual desires, and they could only obey as they were in fear of either the kill command or the Obey command.

Ran was still there without a change in expression as he continued to observe Huo. Huo finally realized that the reason he was having the splitting pain was that he had disobeyed his Master's command as every time he got closer to standing up the pain would slightly lessen, and every time he got further away the pain would once again increase.

"Ughh..." With one last groan, Huo managed to struggle to his feet as he stood up looking at Ran who finally stopped observing him.

"Okay, we are leaving. Your torture over the last few days has most definitely alerted nearby monsters, and even... People." Ran said as he started to walk out of the stick hut. He suddenly stopped, as he pulled out the knife that was still in his rope belt.

Huo winced as he looked at the rigid edges of the stone knife, he was once again terrified he was scared that Ran would decide to torture him. Even though it seemed that Ran no longer took enjoyment in his pain it still was deeply rooted in his soul. The seven days of deadly torture would always be with him, and we would always carry those scars.

"Wishhhh", "Put." Ran threw the stone knife, as it landed at the feet of Huo. Huo took a step back out of fear, but he soon realized that the knife was not aimed to hurt him.

"Arm yourself, we are on the move." Ran ordered.

Huo did not dare to even think of disobeying as he hurriedly grabbed the knife as to not trigger that terrible pain once again.

Once it was dark in the forest, Ran and Huo set out. They had no destination but that didn't matter as they all knew that the last alive in the forest would be allowed out. So they started to head to the center of the forest, ready for the brawl of their lifetime.