"DUHD"

When I heard the sound of something falling down, I instinctively went to the side of a large tree, suppressing my breath.

"Puff!"

I slumped back on my butt, perplexed by what this could possibly mean.

Was I caught? I can't see what's going on around me.

So I have to enlarge my field of vison. Thinking of my vision, father taught us all the way to reinforce our eyes to see clearly with the help of mana. As a result, I was strengthening my eyes with mana, as instructed.

Well, I did a few things with it, such as strengthening my body for physical enhancement or ears for hearing easily and over long distances, and so on.

And just in case, I reinforced my body as well, allowing me to perform mana manipulation, which had become second nature to me by this point. Right now, I'm a dark red mana core stage, so I could only absorb mana from the atmosphere about roughly twenty percent of what I could do while just meditating, And its also thanks to my night trainings that I developed so fast.

Something was off.

So, I hid myself completely behind the trunk.

"NOOO! help ! Kindly Help SOMEONE! Mama! Papa! NOOO! "I'M Scared!!!"

"Someone stop her!

She's going to attract attention!"

*THUD*

"Quick. Put her in the carriage's back seat. The  We'll be safer that way. Keep moving and don't relax."

"Hey, Boss? How much do you think she'll scoop up? Don't elf girls command a high price? Hehe, she's a child! I'm sure she'll bring us a lot of money, don't you think?!"

The hell....they are all...Slave traders! What are they doing here?

I climbed a few branches up the nearest tree and positioned myself once I was sufficiently high. I concentrated mana solely on my eyes, enhancing my vision even more.

I took a careful look around to find the small carriage, which could only fit about five or six adults.

Mana beasts that looked like a cross between a panther and a dog were attached to leashes. I've heard about them all, and they're known as Pantherdogs, and they're native to the Deep Forest.

I turned around just in time to see a middle-aged man dragging a young girl into the carriage's back seat.

She appeared to be around six or seven years old, with blond hair and the pointed ears that elves were known for.

Wait, first of all how did they manage to kidnap someone in the first place? The Woodrow Kingdom's protections were supposed to be strong enough to defeat even the most powerful mage.

Hmm...Should I finish them and save the girl? or leave them alone and go back to my home?

I guess they are trying get in to the city.

After a few moments of thought, I'm faced with a quandary. It didn't feel right to abandon the elf girl.

Nope, I would never let a young girl to suffer something like that.

I now have only one option, which I have always excelled at.

The only thing I can do, is kill all of the slave traders and the mana beasts, and release the elf girl before returning home. I've already taken too long.

This would be my first assassination attempt in this life. But I simply follow the code. "I kill, I breathe!"