500th Time Reborn, A World Only Known By Women: The Karma System

Chapter 348 Finding The Captives

I didn't really like trying spells out for the first time on other people, but this was one I had been working on, and the results were just what I had wanted. Since I wasn't doing anything specific, it was pretty easy to get my special Cat Spirits to do it. Unlike Chili, I had no limit to the types of Cat Spirits that I could summon, and I could get them to do many special jobs, but now was time to deal with the last piece of this puzzle.

I looked at what used to be a temple, but it looked closer to the one that the Undead Riftwalker had broken out of after it was destroyed. Still, I could see figures with my Mana runes underground, and there was a large group of them, but they all seemed to be separated. I couldn't see how the layout of the underground was, but I knew the dimensions of where everyone was, so I placed my hand on the ground and closed my eyes, so I only saw the Mana outlines of everyone below.

This part of town was mostly abandoned, so it was easy to concentrate on what I was trying to do. Since these were already in the ground, I was going to take them out, just in case they had escape tunnels, because I had no way to tell how many were cultists, and placing a sleep spell on this many people at once would be really hard since there were monsters as well below that it wouldn't affect. In the end, I tracked down the entrance and then lifted the entire temple and underground bit out of the ground and into the air about one hundred feet with a few gravity and earth-shaping spells.

It was actually nice since I was able to get a better look at the town for walls later, but I already had my Cat-Robin scoping the place out. I had made the bird more cat-like than I had used before, and now it could even use portals. I would need more of these little pets, and I needed to get Berry back from Tallia, who fell in love with her and was now practically holding her hostage. The small critter didn't seem to mind being with my goddess, so I left her for now.

I looked down at the trap door and opened it before heading down the stairs. The moment that I got down the stairs, there were two black robbed women that were getting off the floor from where the fast up must have pushed them. Both started to chant, but I raised my hands and transmogrified them both into roaches and then went over and stomped them both flat.

If these creatures chose to attack first, then they really didn't understand just how much they were insects to me. I was willing to give people a chance, but I was no longer in the mood to be toyed with. I came to this world to relax and adventure and these bugs were getting in my teeth.

I kicked open the next door to a maze of stacked cages filled with sickly people, and then I was hit with a wave of unwashed bodies and urine, among other things that I didn't want to even think about. My anger rose as I looked around, and I started to spot Were-cats and cultists that were turned towards me through the cage maze.

"How did someone get in here?!" One of the women demanded as I started to rush forward, my nails turning into claws as a frenzy took over me.

"Some of us must retreat! Attack Were-cats!" Another screamed as women from the cages started to scream and cry.

I bolted around the cages and passed each one of the creatures and cultists, shooting Siphon Spikes into each of them. Blood swirled to me from everywhere as everything that was monster or cultist was drained into dried husks with no blood left in their bodies. I went to each cage, and then quickly released the captives. Some were manacled, and some were not.

I didn't know what they had done to them, but I could see healing scars all over their bodies that looked recent, except for a few women who looked malnourished besides just being sickly. They were bleeding in spots as well that hadn't healed yet from where the cult must have been taking blood sacrifices out of them at random intervals as part of their torture regime to scare people into obeying them.

"You are free now," I said in a soft voice as I did my best not to show the anger rising up inside me from this atrocity. "I am going to take all you women to a place that is safe."

"You are here to save us all?" a small voice asked, and I turned to see a girl that looked way too thin and had a burn scar on her face that went from the top of her head all the way down. It must have been from before she was captured, but she was small like Eliza and Chili. "My name is Elise."

It would be a lie if I said that my heart didn't break when I heard her say that. This little girl shouldn't be in a place like this, let alone be in this situation at the hands of monsters and cultists who thought themselves better than anyone else! No helpless creature should ever have to go through what these women did! Never again!

I lifted up into the air until I was right in front of Elise as tears started to stream down her cheeks leaving clean streaks going around the dried blood covering most of her body. "Elise... Your courage is amazing," I said as my godhood roared inside me for justice as mana flowed out of me into Elise while others started crowding around me, desperately trying to get some attention or healing themselves.

I released a burst of healing magics that healed everyone as much as I could, but I wanted to focus on Elise. It looked like she had been here the longest out of everyone, so whatever they did to her was probably the worst. I sent a few Spirits over to help with the others while I focused on Elise.

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