Chapter 29: C29.. Winged city (1/2)

Sentro, a region located to the north of Darknar, it was ruled by one of the Great Five families and directly neighbored Darknar. Parts of this incredibly large region was Vazel a small region formally under the Darknar region but was conquered and now served as the bridged between the Darknar region and the other regions belonging to the Zorak family.

The borders of the expanded Sentro region and Darknar Region housed one of the largest city in the demon continent, Winged city. The city had almost fallen into ruins a few years after the death of the demon king but rapidly became more popular the moment it came under the protection of one of the Five Great families. The city had a population of over 1.5 million permanent residence.

Although the other four family's regions also bordered Darknar region, they did not have an easy access to the place as the Zorak's did, their routes were either obstructed by mountains, large rivers or even the very dangerous Darknar forest, which had no safe routes. This sprang a thread of jealousy within the other Four families.

They had all fought hard to obtain the region and due to the home ground advantage and range of deployment, the Zorak family had secured the region, absorbing it into the Sentro region. Still, the others had pressured the Zorak's into opening the city for all their families use. It was a way to keep an eye on them, preventing the Zorak family from making any use of their advantage, it was also why the population of the city was so large.

With the help of the Zorak family and the acknowledgement of the other four families, the city had secure trade routes to every other major trade hubs in the demon continent, even so entrance to the Darknar region was strictly forbidden, anyone found guilty of this would be immediately striped of their titles or may even lose their lives.

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Two figures could be seen running towards the gates of the city were there was a long line of people of various races waiting to enter the city for various reasons including trading, joining the hunter guilds were you can get jobs hunting monsters and even odd jobs like mining, although sometimes they could be asked to clear out the monsters in a newly discovered mine.

This was basically the same as being an adventurer in the human continent, the concept had been adopted from the humans a thousand years ago when the fighting force of the demons were reduced because of the war.

The guards inspecting the identifications on everyone seeking entrance to the city spotted these figures in the distance and immediately yelled for backup. His team came out and held their weapons prepared for a fight. A few moments later they saw the faces of these figures and instantly recognized them. They had dark orange skin tones along with one and two small horns on their foreheads respectively.

They ran frantically at the gate, because of this the guards were now on high alert, even though they recognized who it was they still had no idea who or what was chasing them. Seeing the two brothers draw closer and closer to the gate, the guards were now visibly confused, as far as they could see there was nothing behind them chasing after them, the sentry's in the watchtowers hadn't sound the alarm yet which meant they also didn't notice anything.

They decided to wait for the duo to explain themselves, it didn't take too long for them to arrive in front of the gate, the people in line couldn't help but stare at them with different expressions, one of the guards walked to them as he looked at their exhausted faces, they were panting like crazy, unable to speak.

”Calm down you too, what's the rush?” Their faces were pale and they were panting heavily, struggling to speak they opened and closed their mouths several times as they gasped for air. After catching their breaths for a minute they both stood up straight. ”We need to see Lord Aur.” They both said in unison. ”Huh... why? did something happen out there?”

”Boss said to report to him directly”

”Boss? oh Lord Zomatsu, alright follow me.”

He lead them through the gates and everyone in line voice their strong opinions on that, the guards just ignored them and lead the brothers into the city.

”So how's that fool Hatch?”

”Oh he's, well, you know hatch.”

”Fufufu... yeah same old hatch. By the way, why were you both running like you were being chased by a wild beast.”

They both looked at each other and scratched their heads. ”Well, B-boss said to hurry.” they avoided the guard's question almost like they were embarrassed about something.

The guard noticed they were hiding something, but it wasn't his problem so he just ignored it and lead them through the city.

The city was large and the air was oddly clean, even with the large population, there was enough space on the streets for them to easily move through, they boarded a private carriage and made their way to the center of the city where a small castle was located.

The city streets were bustling with traffic, there were other private carriages going up and down the streets, demons and other races strolled on the sidewalks as they go about their business, and stores and stalls sold their wares.