章 22: Weakened

....up!...Ash, wake up!* Asher who was lying head first on the ground opened his eyes with difficulty.

"W-what h-happened," he said weakly.

*I-i am so sorry Ash, the "Godspeed mode" failed, it's my fault I didn't pay attention, I-i was studying the fruit of life when... * she said in a panic.

"Calm down Neo, just tell me where are we?" he said.

*W-when you lost consciousness, some people took you away, we are in there hideout* she said.

Asher raised his head and saw people bound with chains, humans, elves, beast-men, dwarves, some had a fearful expression, some were calm, while some looked empty, the place was big and filthy, he kept scanning the place when... *Ker-Chack!*

"Finally getting up, ay?"Asher felt a burning pain on his back, but he didn't react as the attacker predicted, to Asher this pain was nothing.

"Enough! if he was damaged his price will reduce" said another voice.

"Tch," said the first voice.

Asher got up slowly, he turned around saw a giant beast-man, he had fur on his arms and legs.

Asher was surprised to see another beast-man.

*Bang*

"Don't look at me as if I were your long lost cousin or something if you think that I will go easy on you because were kin, then your dead wrong boy!" he said in a threatening voice after he punched Asher hard in the stomach making him fly.

"Kekekekekeke" A whip-wielding human began to laugh, and the rest of the slavers began mimicked him.

'Neo, why am I this weak?' he thought.

*I *Sob* I'm so sorry Ash, I will fix it right away *Sob** she said while sobbing.

Asher was stunned he didn't know how Neo was developing emotions this fast.

'Wait! could it be!' he thought inwardly and decided to ask later.

*Ding/?Creation?

Godspeed mode: 55%...56%...55.1%...55.2%...*

*Y-you are using every bit of energy you have currently to create the Godspeed and fix the mistakes, it will take about 5 hours before returning to your peak* she said while sobbing from time to time.

Asher was feeling a headache from this, he looked around and decided to play along.

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Two hours passed since he woke up in the slavers den, he nobody dared to talk to each other because of fear.

Using his beast-men sense, he overheard many things from the guards, such as the leader is mid-rank Aura-user and he was currently buying supplies in the nearest town.

The second in command was the giant beast-man, a high-rank Aura apprentice.

The most interesting news was that the leader was able to acquire a very interesting slave, a Low-rank Aura apprentice, a male from an ancient race called Fanaris (Author: I missed pronounced the name because the character I want to create is entirely a Fa*alis)

they are extremely rare, any child who survived their brutal lives until adulthood is an elite, a killing machine, an experienced hunter and battle-hardened warrior and an apex predator, it was said that the few remaining Fanaris are living deep inside the dark land.

*Ding/?Creation?

Godspeed mode: 71.6%...*