Birand and Thrazen both accepted compensation for their slaves and have none anymore, though they're dragging their feet on formal abolition. He reports this.

Clerus expresses the opinion that they're probably hiding some, maybe ones the government didn't know about or was incentivized to cover up.

Nod. "Want to go get them? I - didn't anticipate that in particular but that's broadly what I came here to ask you."

Clerus makes an eloquent face, perhaps best summarized as "you hypocrite".

"Yeah. Sorry. I could explain why I think it was better to wait until there was political stability and summoning coverage but - I wasn't bearing any of the costs. The point is, now we have the political stability and the summoning coverage and if there are any resources I can get you they're yours."

"You weren't anticipating that, so why are you here?"

"Lerex isn't letting us buy their slaves out, we tried, we're ready to just do whatever gets them out fastest at this point. I thought you might have advice. Or just want to do it yourself."

"Don't speak Lerexen."

"If that's the main barrier I can get you a translator."

"That and not knowing anybody local, but I can fix that."

"What do you need from us?"

"A babysitter for Alatess and I think we can take it from there."

He arranges a babysitter for Alatess and for a local to summon them a fairy for transit and translation.

His fairy has to take her wings off for stealth but they disappear into the underground of the target country for two and a half weeks and then he turns up with conversational Lerexen, the king's head on a stick, a bastard prince to replace him, and half a million slaves who don't want to wait around to see how the bastard prince is at running things and want to leave right now please. Total non-king death toll is seventeen, all summoners who got between their slaves and not being slaves anymore in a way that unavoidably provoked violence when Alatess wasn't there to drug them (and one adverse drug reaction).

" - congratulations. Have you arranged to make sure people can't summon the King back, do they want to live in Arda with you or are you making arrangements elsewhere -"

"With us is fine except some of them liked the sound of orcs and a few hundred are in love with Elf architecture and want to live in it," says Clerus. "New King summoned his father and is keeping him in a tower with the other political prisoners, I assume if you have opinions about that you can take it from here."

"I can live with that for now. Do you want to handle anywhere else?"

"I will keep doing this as long as I have breath in my body and then I'll keep doing it with fewer personnel."

" - all right. You know how to reach us if you need anything."

He grins and zooms off with his fairy, who appears to possibly worship him.

Not hard to understand why.

Someone in Thrazen explains to Clerus that the Elves won't stand for her being forced to give up her household slaves, the Elf prince bought himself some in Cefax and everything. It's the mistreating them which is a problem, and she doesn't do that.

...Cefax doesn't have slavery...

They have those prostitute mages, she heard about it from her brother who used to do shipping and now does fairy-trading there.

Well, she can't have slaves anyway and if he has to fight the Elf prince about it later he has the connections to pull that off now but she is thanked for the information before she is knocked out and set aside to clear the way.

He goes to Cefax and investigates and knocks over a mining operation with bad labor conditions while he's in there and learns about the prostitute mages and figures out which ones the prince has and charms their little sister and talks to her about it. He considers addressing this less urgent than dealing with the next country's straggler slaveowners but bears it in mind for whenever he next runs into the prince.

He's helping resettle people who want to live with orcs or Elves.