( Yuuki's POV )
When we received a message from Julie that they had the enemy in their sights, I activated my IS, and when the girls jumped on my back I flew towards Julie's location, by the time we arrived the rest of the girls had already gathered there.
Leo: What do you say, Yuuki? Are we going on the attack?
Yuuki: I prefer to observe them a little more, to see who is really in charge of this operation.
What we were observing at this moment was a family of three meeting outside the city with a suspicious man in a magical vehicle.
Magical vehicles were things like cars and motorcycles powered by magic; I became somewhat interested in that when Lisanna mentioned it to me, but then I found out that it worked by using the driver's own magic as fuel, which I think is really stupid, having one less second of fighting time in a mortal battle because you were driving those magical vehicles sounds like the biggest regret you could have, one thing I'm sure of: this criminal is about to learn.
The integration between the family and the suspect appeared to be entirely voluntary; the suspect handed over a bag of money, and in return, the family gave their daughter to him, but thanks to the person who asked us for help, we know that this wasn't always voluntary.
The suspicious guy left with the girl without wasting any time, and we flew after him hoping he would lead us to the rest of the missing girls or the puppeteer who was collecting them.
Lisanna: Yuuki in front! I see a camp.
Minutes after we started following, our decision proved correct when the path the suspicious guy was taking ended at an enemy camp, This was the kind of camp set up in a hurry and ready to be abandoned at any moment.
Yuuki: Hold on tight, you two. I'm going down.
Now that we knew where he was going, we didn't need to follow this guy. I went down quickly and landed in front of the vehicle, I put one leg in front and the vehicle stopped abruptly.
Driver: What the hell-
The driver screamed in confusion, but I immediately knocked him out with a slap from my bone tails.
Yuuki: Matabei, tie this guy up, I'll go check on the passenger.
I went to open the back of the vehicle and there I saw the young woman who had been sold; she was somewhat disoriented by the unexpected stop but she was okay, when she regained her composure, she looked at me with some confusion.
???: ...What are you doing?
Yuuki: Saving you, please no long thanks, we are in a hurry.
???: I don't need rescuing, I chose this!
Yuuki: Do you have self-loathing tendencies? Find other ways to satisfy yourself.
???: No, you idiot! If I'm not hand delivered, they'll come and take their money from my parents.
Yuuki: Relax, girl. The people you're talking about won't exist in a couple of hours.
???: um Are you mages from a guild?
Yuuki: Yeah... That's what we are.
???: Then I'll stay anyway. If you can't defeat the Dark Guild, I'll still be handed over.
Yuuki: Okay, do as you please.
The girls got in the back along with the woman who refused to get out, I put a hood over my head and got into the open driver's seat, the unconscious guy was still connected to the vehicle because I didn't want to waste my magic, not that this was going to empty my massive pool of magic, but I had a certain aversion to these vehicles.
The camp was right ahead, and we ran into a guard before entering the camp, I didn't know if the guard and the driver knew each other, so I acted like I belonged there and hoped for the best.
Yuuki: Hello my friend, I bring a good harvest with me, I tell you people should give me a promotion.
The guard looked at me for a moment but I didn't flinch, then he looked behind the car, the girls had their heads down like good victims.
Yuuki: Come on, buddy, we're losing moonlight.
Guard: Fine, just come in. You're starting to annoy me.
As the girl said before, we were dealing with a dark guild here, and just like their good counterpart, dark guilds used guild marks on their bodies to identify themselves, I was using Illusion to copy the knocked-out driver mark and that was a big factor in the guard letting us in.
I moved the vehicle along with others, who were unloading and gathering more captured girls; it seems we arrived at the perfect moment when the girls were about to be transported out of this world.
A group of about twenty girls were placed in a circle in the middle of the camp, and I was standing guard along with other mages from the dark guild, The one with the highest magical power besides us was a man with black hair and an expression that made him seem perpetually sleepy; he appeared to be the leader here, he was tapping his feet repeatedly, clearly waiting for someone who was taking their time to arrive.
While he was waiting, I took out my bone tails to knock out the mages watching the girls, My tails moved silently close to the ground like snakes, and every dark wizard I took down was replaced by a stone statue, being busy in the middle of the night, the others did not notice their companions disappearing.
I was thinking of doing the same with the rest of the camp, but at that moment a portal opened next to the chief, and a man in a white coat came out of it, he wasn't a world traveler, so it's very likely he was an assistant/mad scientist.
Dark mage: You're late, some guilds have been sniffing too close to our operations.
Assistant: That sounds like your problem. Remember, there are many others who could replace you, You should be grateful; you will have a taste of the power that will soon dominate this world.
Dark Mage: Words aren't always enough of a guarantee.
Assistant: Huph, feast your eyes on this then.
The assistant stepped aside, and from the same portal he used emerged some monsters familiar to us, the BETAs.