"Looking for someone? Here?" Harrot was a little confused. I haven't even gone in to have some fun yet. Why are you staking the place out already?
Tiona kicked aside a chunk of rubble that had fallen in front of her, clearing a path. She nodded and said, "Ailan said two of our people had gone missing, but they weren't dead yet. They should have been captured. I followed their scent all the way here!"
Are you a dog? Following scents and all that. Still, this was no small matter. Two humans going missing and being sold as slaves was nothing unusual.
Even if two hundred Commoners went missing, no one might care. But elves were different. Not only were they few in number, but they were also united and close-knit.
Maybe those two missing elves were some distant relatives of Archmage Iltiran, like "the granddaughter of my eldest aunt's younger sister's third uncle." That definitely warranted a serious investigation.
"But who has such a death wish that they'd dare capture elves as slaves?" Harrot was shocked. Slavery was fairly widespread in this world. Aside from criminals being reduced to slaves and people becoming slaves because they were too poor, there were many other slaves as well.
Those slave traders only needed to secretly abduct someone and transport them elsewhere to sell them as slaves.
As long as they were not too blatant about it, the nobles did not care much. After all, half the money those slave traders made from selling slaves had to be handed over to them.
The nobles even acted as slave traders themselves from time to time. If they took a fancy to a pretty girl, they would casually kidnap her and make her a maid or concubine. Once they got tired of her, they