Chapter 668: Working The Fields

Chapter 668: Working The Fields

Narrator: Back in the slave fields.

Still chained together, Emily, Joe, Kurt, Pearl, and Kasuma walk out onto the field where other light divine beings and angels are working at. Their faces are overcome with sad and lifeless expressions.

Joe frowns just looking at them. “If that’s the look of someone who has been reduced to this, I hope we will be rescued sooner rather than later.”

Emily replies, “I’m sure Zeth and Sasha will have us out of this mess before too long.”

Kurt looks down at the ground with disappointment. “If only that phasing guy wasn’t able to take us by surprise…”

Pearl puts her hand to her forehead as she grits her teeth. “Zeth and Sasha are the strongest among us but we shouldn’t have to be dependent on them when they aren’t around. We shouldn’t give up on finding a way out of this problem on our own.”

Kasuma looks around at everyone. “Coming from Flora World, this planet is very eye-opening. This planet has the complete opposite problem. Now I will get to experience it from the other end of the spectrum where the light has been oppressed by the dark rather than the other way around.”

A male dark divine being approaches them. He has standard Dark Divine Eyes. He is bald and has a bushy mustache. He wears a similar uniform to the other high-ranking dark divine beings.

Narrator: Slave Director – Yotson.

Yotson takes a look at the five heroes with intrigue and pulls on his mustache while doing so. “So these are the five new slaves that I have heard about. You angels are going to learn real quick how things work around here. It won’t be fun for you.”

Yotson looks back over his shoulder at another male dark divine being that is approaching while carrying five shovels. He then looks back at the five heroes. “We already have enough slaves tending to the crops at the moment so you will be assisting with the digging.”

The other male dark divine being gives each of the heroes a shovel.

Yotson points at a group of slaves that are currently digging a large hole. “Assist them in digging that hole.”

Kurt looks at Yotson curiously. “What exactly are we digging for?”

Yotson frowns. “That is of no concern to slaves.”

Kurt replies, “Then how are we supposed to know when we have found what you are looking for?”

Yotson rubs his face in annoyance. “There will be supervisors keeping watch. They will tell you when you have found valuable materials. That is all you need to know. Now, get to work.”

Kurt, Emily, Joe, Pearl, and Kasuma walk away from Yotson toward the hole that other angel slaves are currently digging in. Once they step into the hole, they begin digging.

As Pearl digs, she looks around to see supervisors in the area. “It’s clear how important this is to them. Escape would be impossible while there are this many of them around.”

Emily digs into the ground and then throws some of the dirt out of the hole. “There was never any hope we could simply escape. These chains that hit us with magic if we try to use our own magic are very problematic.”

Kurt digs his shovel into the dirt but doesn’t pull it up yet. “What could they want from the ground? The crop work seems to be separate from this so it can’t be for food.”

A female dark divine being approaches from outside the hole. She speaks with a commanding tone as she looks at Kurt. “You there! Talking is fine but don’t slack during your work! Keep at it!”

Kurt finally lifts the shovel and throws the dirt out of the hole. “Yes, ma’am.” He begins thinking to himself. (“It would be easier to focus if they gave some details about what we are looking for.”)

The female supervisor walks away from the hole to check on other areas.

A female angel slave who is also digging in the hole looks at Kurt. She has an exhausted look on her face. “Please don’t anger the supervisors. I can promise you that the punishment for not working well enough is much worse than just doing the work well.”

Kasuma looks at the female slave with worry as she continues to dig. “I feel so awful for you having nothing but this to look forward to. Soon enough, you will be free. I’m betting on it.”

The female slave looks at Kasuma, a defeated and exhausted look still permeates throughout her whole face. “I’ve heard that one before. There is no hope.”

A male light divine being slave also comments with a similarly hopeless tone. “The last time any slaves tried to finally be free, they got blasted and killed in a ship.”

The female slave adds to his comment. “And then all of us who didn’t escape still got punished for it. It was horrible. The only way we will ever be free is if the dark divine beings just leave the planet.”

Kurt opens his eyes wide as he digs. He then looks at the female slave. “Could they be trying to gather resources to leave the planet? We encountered that ship and the killed slaves on board it.”

The female slave nervously replies. “I’m sorry but I’m not really sure. But please don’t talk about it when the supervisors are around. We might get punished further.”

Joe looks at Kurt as he digs. “I know you’re curious but given how long they have been through this, we should respect their wishes. Let’s just talk about it amongst ourselves so that they don’t get punished.”

Kasuma nods. “I agree. If we mess up and get severely punished, it would be wrong of us to drag them down with us.”

Kurt replies. “Right.” He then looks at the female slave. “I apologize for bringing it up.”

Emily continues to dig. Soon, her shovel hits something hard. She curiously looks down at the ground. “Hmm?”

Joe looks at Emily with curiosity. “What’s up, Emily? Did you find something?”

Emily moves her shovel back and then tries to dig deeper. She moves it forward and then tries to raise the shovel. She finds lifting the shovel to now be difficult. “I have found something. I’m not sure what it is yet but it’s definitely tough!” She adjusts her feet to better position herself to lift it. “I would go into my Ancestral Form but I don’t want these chains to zap me!” As she tries to lift, the veins in her arms begin popping out a bit as she uses a lot of her physical strength to lift.

The others watch Emily as she lifts the shovel. Finally, with a lot of force she finally fully lifts the object out of the ground and dumps it to her side. The object appears to be round-like with many pointy edges. It’s silver colored with some streaks of blue within it.

All of the slaves look at it. Emily scratches her head. “Well, it’s certainly not just dirt this time. But what exactly is it?”

Joe focuses on it closely. “It appears to be some kind of metal.”

Kurt replies with curiosity. “It doesn’t look like any metals we have on Earth.”

Kasuma adds to his comment. “I haven’t seen anything like this in Flora World either. It must be a metal naturally made on this planet.”

The female supervisor walks over and smiles. “That’s it! The very rare Gomaza metal! Excellent work, slave!”

Yotson also walks over to the hole. “Indeed. This brings us closer to Project Sputnik’s completion.”

Pearl looks at Yotson with a serious expression and thinks to herself. (“That confirms the digging portion of the slave work is not just to support the living of the dark divine beings. I think this does mean that we’re digging for materials that will help them leave the planet. But what will happen to the slaves after? There are also other questions. Where are the mortals? Does this planet even have light and dark gods or goddesses? We still don’t know where Zeth and Sasha are but I hope they have answers to these questions.”)

Narrator: Emily, Joe, Kurt, Pearl, and Kasuma have all started working in the fields. Emily has found a rare metal that the dark divine beings need but something doesn’t add up!

Chapter 668 END

To be Continued in Chapter 669: Planting The Seeds of Rebellion