732 Misfortunes Never Come Singly (2/2)

Even as an adult werewolf, Nasdell felt very exhausted after all these. So he walked to an old, abandoned house and sat down against the wall. He needed some time to heal and take a rest.

The wounds from falling into the sewers had healed, but the deep pain left in his bones by the electric shock was still there. He could do nothing else but to wait.

Nasdell murmured to himself, ”There are good things about Rentato, but also very dangerous things. How could they dig such a huge hole in the middle of the street and place lightning magic circles right on the square without any protection?”

He would not admit that he did not know how to use electricity safely, as he believed that those sorcerers were too reckless.

The night was quiet. Nasdell gradually calmed down. He comforted himself that things would get better soon.

However, as soon as the thought emerged, his sharp intuition made him sense the great danger. Without a second thought, he jumped forward with all his strength.

However, his body had yet to fully recover from the electric shock, so his movement was a bit slower.

Boom!

The abandoned house suddenly exploded and then completely collapsed!

”Are you guys nuts?! You even f**king blow your own house?!” Nasdell was totally clueless about what was going on.

What just happened was totally beyond his expectation. And obviously, the explosion wasn't coming for him. Nasdell would have sensed it way earlier if it had been.

BOOM!

The explosion blast hit Nasdell fiercely, and he was instantly buried by bricks and dust.

”Wh… Why…” murmured the werewolf.

On the other side of the street, the crowd was watching the explosion.

”Sir, the new explosive offered by the sorcerers worked very well!” said a brown-haired man excitedly. A few houses had been torn down within seconds!

”Good. This will save us lots of work and time. Soon, we'll be able to widen the pavement so that this whole area in Rentato would become much more comfortable.” The director nodded with satisfaction.

To get the new explosive, their boss had paid a special visit to Allyn to have a specialist come over to guide the work.

One of his workers asked, ”Why are we here at midnight though? People are sleeping…”

”So you mean we should block the street during the daytime? This street connects the market zone to the city gate! You know how much money would be wasted if we did so? Get those lazy workers to move. The street has to be cleaned by dawn!” said the director aloud.

The workers started their work. One of them said apprehensively, ”Sir, we didn't check before the explosion to make sure no one was in it…”

”There was no one in it! We've blocked the street in all directions and used magic crystal lamps as signs. We've been watching all the time, unless someone just popped out from the ground!” the director yelled at him.

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In the early morning, Ali walked out of his rented place and headed for the noble district along a busy street.

He wasn't in his best spirit since the explosions last night deprived him of his sleep.

Fortunately, the team which did the demolition had informed the residents well ahead with notifications. He could read, so he was not scared last night at all.

Beside the entrance of the noble district, there was once an abbey that had now been turned into a school. Students were reading aloud in the classrooms. Fine coaches kept driving to the school gate successively to send the noble kids here.

Mills Generic School on Kining Street in Noble district, Rentato… That was where his pen pal friend studied.

Jane from class one grade two. Ali thought to himself.

The second year after generic schools came into being, those nobles had decided to set up a noble school to make sure that only the privileged kids could study here. After seeing how those generic schools worked, the nobles had to admit that putting their kids in the school environment could better spark off the kids' passions to study and help them build up their social circles at a young age.

Ali watched the fine coaches and cars driving into the school, as well as the different aircraft including airships and aircars in the sky, and he felt that there was an invisible wall in front of him.

He sighed. Like the past few days, he turned around and left. His mind was full of all kinds of thoughts—depression, inferiority, and desires.

Now he had come back to the street where a couple of houses got torn down last night. He then heard some strange whimpering.

Ali followed the whimpering and was surprised to see that there was a big dog lying in the tall grass. Its eyes were tightly shut, and its silver fur was covered with blood and dust.

To Ali, the dog resembled a wolf very much. From the books, he knew that there was a kind of dog that looked like wolves very much.

Out of kindness, Ali walked to it and noticed that there were many wounds on the dog.

”You got lucky, pal.” Ali grinned.

He learned how to bind up wounds from working temporarily in the Congress of Magic's hospital recently. He dragged the big dog home and wrapped it like a mummy.

After a while, he saw that the big dog had woken. Somehow, two lines of tears fell down from its dull eyes.

It was the first time that Ali saw something like this. He hurriedly comforted the big dog like he was talking to a human being, ”It will get better. There's no need to be this emotional. I just did what I should. Don't cry. Our lives will get better in Rentato.”

Hearing the word Rentato, the big dog cried even harder.