Birth of the Legendary Battle Mage

Chapter 27

After a while, when the sun fully set, “I’ve waited enough, it’s time to wake up.” Julius said as he stood up from his sitting position and moved towards the girl. As he knelt beside her with his palm glowing a light shade of blue over her chest, about to cast a spell, he paused momentarily, turning his focus to the three bides that were floating above the water. ‘After I wake her up, there’s going to be an issue communication due to the language barrier... I should fix that first.’ He thought to himself as his glowing palm slowly returned to normal. He stood up, leaped on and off the water, retrieving the bodies as he did. The bodies fell lifelessly as he tossed them to the ground. About a minute later, he was done extracting information from the bodies using a spell, and after he was done, he set the bodies on fire, although this fire was different as it burned the bodies away in seconds. “Hm, that should do.” He said as he walked back towards the girl. As he got closer, the girl twitched a little, and then sat up quickly and awkwardly, probably from shock? Or something else.

“Wha? Who reacts like this when they regain consciousness after drowning? Hehh. Is it all demons, or is it just her?”

As Julius spoke from the confusion, the girl seemed to have used up her remaining energy as she fell back to her back from the sited position she was in, supporting herself with her hands till her back completely touched ground. Julius walked up to her and sat with crossed legs, just beside her. “Hey. I know you’re awake, so open your eyes... If you don’t I’ll assume you’re dead, and toss you inside the pond with a weighted boulder tied to your legs...”

After some seconds, she slowly opened one eye to peak at Julius who was still beside her, noticing that escape is impossible given how close he was to her, not to mention her physical condition. But something was still off. The demons that occupied the settlements close to that region of cursed land they were in were demons who grew one horn from either side of their head, but the being before her had no such horn. The only other guess was that he was a different demonic race, but even with that, he possessed no traits the other races had. In addition to that, he wasn’t really giving off a normal aura. In summary, what she concluded was that the man before her was mysterious and should not be trifled with.

“Ple. Please, don’t throw me into the pond, please.” The girl said. She looked very malnourished, pale, skinny, and frail. The bags under her eyes were really saggy, accompanied with other signs on her body that showed clearly the terrible physical condition she was in.

‘This girl, she has suffered a lot, and she is bound to have mental and psychological injuries just like the ones on her flesh... should I, just kill her?’ “If you don’t want that, you’ll have to answer my questions. And answer correctly. If I discover at any point that you are lying, you won’t only be going under that pond.” ‘yeah that’s right, I’m already pissed as it is. If she tries to test me, I’ll just bury her here with her head above grond.’

‘What does he mean by you won’t only be going under that pond, is he planning on violating me sexually? Hehe, nothing I’m not used to.’

“Do you understand?”

“Yes.”

“Good. First of all, let’s start with your name. What is your name?”

“Callea, my name.. is Callea.”

“Do you live on this cursed land?”

“No, I don’t.”

“Who were the men pursuing you? And why were they pursuing you?”

“They are soldiers of...”

Callea’s answer lead to her giving a long narration of events that have happened in the past few years, including who she was, where the soldiers came from, about some of the surrounding settlements.

According to her, she use to be a native of a kingdom located far away from the kingdom they are currently within. One peaceful day while helping out in the orphanage she grew up in, a ball of fire suddenly came hurling down from the sky, blasting the away parts of the big statue located here the city’s court. Moments later, the whole city fell into chaos, and the city’s soldiers were getting killed like ants by a giant demon with human physiology that wielded an axe-like spear weapon. In a matter of hour, the whole city turned to ruins, and the survivors were taken as slaves. The city was far away from the capital, so that might be why they didn’t respond in time, or maybe they just abandoned them, since the city was of little importance of their nation. After they were taken as slaves, their heads were covered with sacks that had been used to store food previously, with a rotten stench soaked in it, probably to limit their sight and sense of smell, while also serving bad treatment.

After they got to their destination within this kingdom (the one they are presently in), most of the men captives were sent to mines and other places that required hard labour. Others like the women were sold as maids to citizens while the pretty and beautiful women and girls to the wealthy and nobility. There were those who were sold to brothels, Callea was one of them. Although she was a beautiful girl, nobody seemed to like her, and so no one bought her during the slave auction. After working for the brothel for some months, due to their poor treatment of slaves by both the owner workers and customers, she stopped getting much offers. After that, a man paid for her, and the brothel wasted no time in disposing of their useless goods. This man had a fetish of dominating weak and helpless girls or women and liked to be dominated by strong and powerful women, so it was obvious why she was bought. This man was a person of high position in the army of the nation, he was under one of the 12 Demon Generals of the nation, he’s name was Basaka.

It wasn’t long after she was bought and used by the man and guards everyday that a guard came to the dungeon where she was kept to bring her before Basaka. Getting there, she was handed over to a woman, with no explanation, just that she was her new master. At that point, all she wanted to do was get out of there, so she didn’t give much thought to where she was being taken or what her work will be when she got there. She could only hope that it won’t be as bad as the previous experiences.

Unfortunately, what she was going to experience in the hands of this woman might as well be far worse. After she got to the woman’s residence and throughout, she was used to test new medicines and such illegal products. Because of this, she developed a lot of abnormalities and side effects.

“Hmm. These abnormalities. Is this related to why the holy magic in the pond had no effect on you despite you being a demon?” Julius asked.

The answer was yes. She also told him about a lot of other things about the kingdom and the fact that the woman that took her away was the leader of some cult that had influence throughout the whole kingdom, underground.

“That’s enough for now.

“... So. What are. You going to do to me know?” Callea asked with a soft voice.

“Kill you of course.” Julius replied with a cold look in his eyes, then he said something else. “I will ask only once. Will you prefer to serve under me, or will you prefer if I kill you right now?”

“...”

“Quickly.”

‘Should I just die here? It would put an end to my suffering, once and for all.’ As these thoughts ran through her head, she looked at the sky and replied with a single word, “yes.”

“Yes what?”

“I will serve under you.”

“Good choice.” ‘She’s severely injured, both externally and internally. I’ll heal the external injuries for now. The internal injuries and the effects on her mind and soul I’ll look at later.’ “I’ll heal your external injuries for now, the others I’ll check on later.” And with that, Julius raises a hand over her chest and a light blue glow pours from his hands onto the girl’s body, covering her up in the glow. After about a minute, all her flesh wounds were completely healed, even some small scars disappeared.

“...wow.” ‘He is very strong. There will be no escaping. I hope he treats me a little better than the mistress and master Basaka.’

“Alright now, I will cast a slave contract spell.”

“A slave contract spell?”

“Don’t you know it?”

“No.”

‘Maybe the demons don’t know the spell? Since they have a lot of slaves, I figured they’ll have this kind of spell. I did create this spell accidentally when trying to create a higher tier taming spell. Hmm’ “Do you mean there’s no spell placed on you to make sure you don’t go against your owner?” He curiously asked.

“Do you mean the tame spell?”

‘what? Tame?’ “Forget about that for now, let’s continue.”

Julius went on to conduct the slave contract, meaning he now owns her. He didn’t put a lot of restrictions on her because he didn’t know her limitations and other things, but he will have to do that along the way eventually.

“Alright, first off get into that pond and wash yourself, you stink. Take your time, and use these to assist in your bathing.” He handed her a sponge and soap as he finished his sentence.

Callea is between the ages of 100 to 130 years old, but in earth years, that’ll be about 24 years old, so she looked 24 and had a good figure with average proportions to booth after the external injuries were healed, even though she was still a little bony at the moment. She wore a brown rag that looked as though it used to be white, definitely a big contribution to her stench.

‘That’s right, I probably stink a lot right now, but since my sense of smell doesn’t work, I can’t smell it. Couple with the fact that I’m soaked... This is very embarrassing.’ “Ah. I, I am sorry for displeasing you master. I will wash myself immediately.” She still didn’t have a lot of strength in her, but she mustered up the one she had to fulfil the orders she was given. Julius helped her up, and assisted her till she was at a good spot. After a few tries, it was obvious that she found it hard to take off the piece of rag she was wearing. After sometime, Julius became irritated and used telekinesis to remove the rag off her body.