DMS Chapter 3

  They entered a doorway to the right, and the man had to stop his floating since the door was small enough that everyone had to walk to enter. They arrived at a small hall, and Flinx saw that ten people were waiting for them there, and beside them was a table with some sort of gray clothes folded neatly.

  Flinx thought that the folded clothes could be the same as what the ten people were wearing, which was a gray tunic and pants. He even saw some gray sandals beside the clothes, and it was obvious that they were the clothing worn by the wizards’ slaves.

  Suddenly, Flinx saw the man who was wearing the camouflage clothes run to the wizards who were now in front of them. He knew that the soldier had the intention of capturing the wizard and possibly holding him captive and would try to negotiate for their return home or something, but with what the wizard had shown so far, Flinx knew that it was a futile gesture, and based on what happened next, he was right.

  Before the soldier touched the wizard, he bounced off several feet away. The wizard then laughed and gestured at the soldier, the man began screaming as if he was being tortured to within an inch of his life. The scream was so loud and so full of pain that Flinx couldn’t help himself and put his hands on his ears to block the man’s screams, and he wasn’t the only one. All of them did the same, and some of the women even cowered down or turned their backs so they wouldn’t see the man being tortured anymore.

  “As you can see, anyone who is wearing a collar will never be able to get near those who don’t have one, and through the collars, we can also do to your bodies whatever we imagine, and all of you will feel it as if it were real. Right now, your fellow slave felt like he was submerged in boiling oil, and a few seconds more and he would die of pain.”

  The wizard then made some sort of gesture again, and he disappeared, leaving them with the ten people who were waiting beside the table full of clothes and shoes. Then one of them stopped forward and introduced himself.

  “Hello to all of you. My name is Robert, and I’m also from Earth, but I’ve been a slave for 20 years. I was enslaved 20 years ago, and I was only 24 years old back then. 3 of you will be assigned to one of us, and then the veteran will explain all you need to know. First off, you will need to change your clothes with these since our owners want to have a look at all the things that transmigrators brought.”

  Flinx and the others then went to the table and took the clothing that they were supposed to wear while they were slaves in this place. He could see that most were beginning to despair. Those who arrived naked almost rushed to wear the slave clothes. At that moment, everyone was focused on changing their clothes, and one could see that there was nothing else but worry on everyone’s mind.

  Flinx could understand since he was in the same boat as all of them, but considering that some of them might have families, he was better off since he was already alone in his life. He couldn’t imagine what the others were thinking and feeling, especially those with someone or several someones who were worried about them suddenly disappearing. If it were him, his mind would only be filled with one thing. How to get back to his family, but based on what he had seen so far and the stances of those veteran slaves, their possible return to Earth might be nil.

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  Flinx was assigned to a man named Hector, who looked like your typical Mexican farmer. After they changed their clothes to slave clothes, someone gathered all their clothing and put them in some kind of sack, and according to Robert, they would be given to the wizards of this planet to be inspected. At least those who arrived naked were now fully clothed.

  As Robert, the first slave who spoke before them said, three people would be assigned to a veteran slave but since a woman was killed by Molder, their wizard boss, one of the veteran slaves would only have two new slaves and it was Flinx and the Native American who was wearing a Native American costume before who was assigned to a single veteran slave.

  Flinx didn’t know if that was an advantage or a disadvantage, but based on the reactions of the veteran slaves, it seemed unimportant.

  Hector led him and James, the Native American man, somewhere, and when they arrived there, it was in some sort of space carved out in a cave that had four beds. Flinx was surprised that James’s name wasn’t those typical Native American names, but he had read before that most Native Americans now sported common names. There’s also a chance that James didn’t give out his real name.

  Another surprising thing was when he told the man that his name was Flinx. James recognized the name immediately, and that meant that he was a science fiction aficionado as well.

  “It’s a good thing that you two have a good relationship since both of you will only have each other, and me, of course, to survive. It would not even surprise me if you two become lovers since it’s common enough here, and you don’t even need to be gay to be in a relationship,” Hector told them.

  Flinx and James said that they were straight and had no intention of being with another man, and since they said exactly the same thing, they both laughed. Hector just shrugged and continued with his explanation.

  “Normally, a team like ours would last for at least three years, and if any of us survive after that, we will be separated to be paired with other newly arrived slaves. For now, please listen to me since we only have the rest of the day for me to explain everything to you both, and tomorrow we will start our work,” Hector continued. Then, after that, the information from Hector started pouring in.

  Hector started not with what Flinx hoped was the explanation of the system that was supposed to be the gift of all transmigrators from Earth, but with the common knowledge one would need. The first thing he said was that it was nine in the morning, so they had several hours that day to complete the necessary lessons they would need.

  Hector said that he had been a slave for ten years and that he was originally from Mexico and traveled to the United States to work. He told them the year when he transmigrated, which surprised both Flinx and James since the year he said was just three years ago, which did not align with what Hector had said about being transmigrated 10 years ago.

  “The timeline between this world and ours is different each time slaves are summoned. Robert, who had been a slave for 20 years, transmigrated in the year just before me, so that one was confusing as well.”

  Hector also explained that not all slaves who transmigrated came from Earth. Some came from different dimensions, but each batch of slaves would always come from the same planet, and then they would be paired with veteran slaves from that planet as well.