When Morana was a child, she once imagined what kind of future she would have.

A cozy cabin, a comfortable lounge chair, and then wear warm clothes and spend time leisurely in front of the bright fireplace. Occasionally, I will taste delicious desserts, and then stand up to tease the pets, or maybe

I was standing in front of the window looking out at the beautiful snow scene of the lakeside.

This is a very common wish, but for Morana at the time, it was an extremely unrealistic extravagance. Because Morana used to live in Adelaide, the only country in the northern cold zone of the continent among the seven human kingdoms.

La, when she was a child of slaves who was born in a dilapidated tent in a cold winter.

The country of Adela is somewhat special. Although the country's system is a kingdom in name, in fact the state power has long been controlled by officials of the business group. The nobles and the king are just mascots in name only, because the country's financial and military power are almost

All are in the hands of big businessmen.

Due to the special terrain of the Adela Kingdom, although it is not suitable for large-scale farming, it has extremely rich mineral deposits. For this reason, mines are almost everywhere. In order to dig out as many valuable minerals as possible,

Large-scale slave miners have become the largest population group in this country. The country's citizens plus nobles account for less than one-fifth of the total number. This shows how deformed the country's structure is. At the same time,

Because of this, the Kingdom of Adela has become the country with the largest territory, the poorest, and the largest gap between the rich and the poor among the seven human kingdoms. The most ironic thing is that the Kingdom of Adela is also the richest place among the seven human kingdoms.

This country has not experienced war from outside for a hundred years, because no country or force is willing to attack such a "rich" and "beautiful" place. Nearly half of the strategic resources consumed by the country need to come from here.

At the same time, criminals or prisoners in most countries will be bought as slaves at high prices. At the same time, in order to cater to and entertain the commercial consumption and cooperation of nobles from various countries, all cities in the southern part of the Adela Kingdom have been built into luxurious and luxurious buildings.

A luxurious entertainment city.

If the Borderlands is described as chaotic and sinful by other countries because of its lack of political unity, then the Kingdom of Adela can be unceremoniously called a place "just a thin line from hell". Of course

In the eyes of some people, it actually has the opposite result, so the Kingdom of Adela is privately ridiculed by some people as a country where "heaven and hell" coexist.

It is said that it is beautiful because rich people can do anything there. Extremely luxurious consumerism naturally brings certain transcendent rights to consumers. For this reason, killing people on the street or various bloody games that cannot be described in words are also possible.

It's all commonplace, and of course the people who died were slaves who were traded as commodities. It's not impossible that as long as you pay a certain amount of money, you can even go to King Adela's throne to have fun. And for slaves, it's completely peaceful.

Hell, there is almost no difference whether it is in a city or a mine. Sometimes a glass of low-quality ale can be exchanged for a similar slave.

This is how Morana was bought by a mine merchant, and she was just 3 years old at that time. Although she could not wield a mining hoe, she could still be used to carry a small amount of ore. Anyway, she was also a merchant and was chatting with others in the tavern.

He won it with a glass of wine after a bet, so even if he died in the mine, there would be no loss to the merchant.

The Kingdom of Adela is not the origin of slavery, but it is a place where the value of slaves is maximized. It is not new for Morana, who was only 3 years old, to be thrown into the mine, because slaves were smaller than her.

It is also very common in the mines, and it is not surprising that there are even pregnant female slaves giving birth directly in the mines.

The mines in the Kingdom of Adela are slightly different from those in the outside world, because they are not only used for mining, but also where slaves live. Once the mining slaves are sent into the mines, unless there is a holder

Otherwise, they will never be able to come out. Even if they die, they will only be burned to ashes and dumped in a random place. The corpses of slaves and companions still need to pay a certain fee, otherwise they will only

You can let it rot slowly in your own tunnel shack.

In addition to the continuously excavated veins and tunnels inside the so-called mines, the remaining hollowed out areas became the places where slaves established their own residential areas. The slaves would receive a certain amount of remuneration for mining, although it was small, it was still considered a kind of reward.

I was reluctantly relieved, and when the slaves had a certain level of savings, they could go to the mine guards to buy various daily necessities. In other words, the mines were not completely closed, and even the slaves could spend money to buy the guards.

Delivering letters or even soliciting prostitution.

The young Morana separated from her still numb mother Liangli but did not completely cut off the relationship with her. Due to her mother's special status, she was a clerical slave, so Morana learned to read and write from an early age. Although it seems that

It seems to have nothing to do with mining, but the advantage is that Morana can write letters, so she is protected by most of the slaves in the mine, because they all need someone who can write letters to help them write to their companions outside the mine.

Even family contact.

Based on this, Morana's initial slave life was quite stable. In addition to maintaining a necessary workload to dig some ore deep in the mine tunnel, Morana mostly lived in a safer place.

She grew up peacefully in a slave community. Occasionally she would write letters to her mother to communicate, but her mother would not always reply to her letters. After all, her mother was used to this kind of slave life, and

In order to live a "normal" life, this mother has been trying to downplay the family relationship with her biological daughter.

But how can something like family love be diluted so easily? The mother missed her daughter for a long time after Morana entered the mine, which led to one after another problems at work. In the end, she was held in anger.

Her businessman sold it directly to the notorious "Playground" for the lowest price.

This place is indeed a veritable playground for the spectators who come to watch, but for the slaves who are sent in, it is just a death sentence, and it is a public death penalty, and it still has to be done in front of various spectators.

Amidst the cheers and shouts, he was slowly torn into pieces and then eaten by monsters. The so-called "playground" is actually a slave arena, but the business content of each playground is different, and what Morana's mother said

The place she went to was just a place that specialized in performances of slaves fighting various monsters, and she was unfortunately assigned to a performance team with a giant ogre.

The desperate mother was ready to commit suicide when she was thrown into the arena, but just when she picked up the rusty bronze dagger and planned to commit suicide, she saw in the audience a man who had just turned 5.

Two years of absence from each other did not create any estrangement between mother and daughter. On the contrary, both parties immediately recognized each other among the large crowd.

Morana came to the amusement park that day to redeem her mother, because she had made a lot of savings in the mines in the past few years through some knowledge her mother taught her, and on the day her mother was sold, she

She immediately bribed the guard of the mine to take her out to rescue her mother. Unfortunately, she arrived too late. Before she could find the manager of the amusement park, she discovered that her mother was still thrown into the arena where blood and flesh were spattered.

Morana, who was shocked by the horrifying scene, watched in panic as the slaves on the field were ravaged to death one by one by the ogre and thrown into his mouth to be chewed. However, when it was her mother's turn, the other slave gave her a

Morana smiled as if she was about to cry. Then the mother pointed to the chest area between herself and Morana, and then slit her own throat in front of her daughter.

Amidst the joyful cheers and dissatisfied boos of thousands of spectators, Morana watched with her own eyes as her mother was thrown away by the ogre and chewed casually in his mouth like a grape, while Morana herself

She froze on the spot, and her mother's miserable smile before she died and her trembling hands holding a short knife kept replaying in her mind. When Morana came back to her senses again, this scene

The performance was over, and the huge ogre returned to the passage while spitting out the crumbs of unchewed bones. However, Morana's ears were filled with all kinds of comments from the spectators about the performance just now.

various comments.

Morana returned to the mine unusually calmly, but she did not return to her shed, but went to an abandoned mine tunnel of her own. This is the abandoned tunnel that Morana accidentally discovered some time ago.

There is a relatively wide flat land at the end, and there are still some broken rest beds. It seems that this was once a remote miner's rest area, but this miner is definitely not a slave.

It was remote enough and quiet enough here, so Morana would come here to escape whenever she encountered something sad or in danger. This time she came to this quiet place again and finally couldn't help but hug her.

She felt a headache and began to cry. At the same time, Morana also reached out from her chest and took out the bone necklace that had been hanging and took a look at it.

This thing was a farewell gift given to her by her mother when she was bought. Moreover, her mother also specifically said that no one should discover the true purpose of this thing, maybe she would be able to use it in the future. Today, Morana held it with tears in her eyes.

After removing the shell of the animal teeth from the bone necklace, a sharp blade as long as one finger suddenly appeared in front of Morana's eyes, and at this time she finally understood what her mother said, "It may be used in the future."

What does "get" mean?

Obviously, this necklace with a hidden blade is a prop used by Morana's mother to prepare for suicide in advance when encountering such a thing in the future. After all, a sharp blade can make people die with as little pain as possible. Anyway, compared to today's

It is much more satisfying to be ravaged by ogres until all the bones in the body are broken and then thrown into the mouth and chewed.

After losing her mother today, Morana finally came to her senses, but the first thing she thought of at this moment was not to escape from this hell-like place, but the idea of ​​revenge for her mother. The target of revenge was that

It's just an ogre, but for a child who is now nearly five years old and whose legs are shaking after watching that bloody show not long ago, revenge... and revenge against such a huge monster is simply...

It was an extremely ridiculous idea. After rationally thinking about a series of very unrealistic plans and finally giving up completely due to reality, Morana's eyes finally returned to the sharp blade again.

Of course, death is not that scary to Morana now, and compared to her mother's cruel end, dying happily and following in her mother's footsteps has already surpassed a child's fear of death.

.However, Morana did not have the decisiveness of an adult. For this reason, when she dangled the blade in front of her neck, she never really imitated her mother's actions and slit her own throat.

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At this moment, an unnatural earthquake woke up Morana, who was wandering on the edge of death. The ground in the pit where she was was collapsed instantly, and Morana, who fell into the abyss with various boulders, immediately felt a huge shock.

Death is even more terrifying.

After falling for an unknown amount of time, she finally fell into a dark underground pool. Although the deep pool did not allow Morana to fall directly to her death on the spot, the surroundings were pitch black and the splashing water above her head was caused by her constant struggle.

The sound of falling boulders gave her a feeling of fear that was worse than death. This feeling was even more terrifying than the shock when she saw her mother commit suicide, especially since this was an underground space without any light. It was a deep underground space.

The unknown fear brought to Morana by the darkness and the unknown depth of the pond continued to devastate her body and mind, and she didn't know if it was an illusion. Morana always felt like something was touching her under the water.

, and there is also a vague intention to drag myself into the water.

Morana couldn't even scream at this moment. She could only keep flopping on the water in fear, trying to find the edge of the pond and escape from here. However, because she couldn't swim, she was killed by an unknown force after flopping a few times.

She was dragged into the water. At the beginning, Morana was still relatively conscious, but as she sank deeper and deeper, the breath she was holding in her mouth finally broke free helplessly, and then Morana seemed to be here.

Lost consciousness in the bottomless abyss.

When she woke up, she found that she had returned to the original tunnel, but the location was not at the end of the space because it had been buried by collapsed boulders. So at this moment, Morana suddenly found herself in

location on the road leading there.

Morana got up from the ground covered in blood. The pain all over her body and the scratches on her clothes proved that the horrific memory that had been completely engraved in her mind was not an illusion, although she did not know that she was

How to be saved, but I am also glad that I am far away from that terrible abyss.

Although there was some darkness in the passage, there was at least some faint light. This faint light also gave Morana a little warmth in her heart. And at this moment, Morana also noticed that it had been hanging in her hand.

The beast's tooth pendant, the blade that he clearly remembers not knowing where it fell when he came out of the Fall, is back in his hands. Maybe this can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune, after all, no matter how you talk about this thing

It was also the last memory her mother left for her. But at this moment, Morana no longer had the idea of ​​committing suicide, because the abyss just now gave Morana too much fear, and as a result, she also had some additional desire to survive.

But it seems that Morana's luck is not very good today, because the collapse sound caused by the vibration attracted some uninvited guests. Although these people who are also mining slaves do not live in the same community as Morana, and this group of people

After discovering the ragged Morana, she also had evil thoughts. After all, Morana is only a 5-year-old little girl, and there are no other slave companions around her now, and these people who like the law of the jungle naturally plan to

This weak slave child was to be dealt with here, so Morana had no choice but to pick up the animal tooth blade and plan to defend herself.

But what no one expected was that Morana, who seemed to be dying on the surface, was able to dodge the attacks of this group of people extremely sensitively and quickly every time. And as Morana's adaptability became better and better, she

The speed also became faster and faster, and even occasionally produced some black smoke whenever she moved quickly.

Of course, Morana understood what kind of magical power she had gained as a blessing in disguise. After all, this kind of thing happened from time to time in the legends of bards, so the immature Morana didn't think too much, because at the moment, her mind was full of

All I can think about is revenge for my mother.

After Morana easily dealt with this group of people, she returned to her shack to rest for a day as if nothing had happened. On the second day, she once again bribed the guards to enter the amusement park.
To be continued...