440 Chaos 2 (1/2)
Chapter 440: Chaos 2
The female representative was a middle-aged woman nearing forty, she mused for a bit and then discussed it for a while with the companions behind her, eventually nodding.
”Thank you for your faith in us, Chief, we are willing to help develop the auction.”
”That’s good.” Garen sent the last of the four Guards and two others to escort them to the auction house.
Everyone in the family firmly believed in everything he said, which made him very satisfied. There were all sorts of rumors going around outside, saying that the Kingdom was about to be conquered by monsters, and many families with power had escaped together with the three departments.
The ones who stayed behind weren’t powerless, like Garen or the highest level people such as the Grand Duke or the First Princess, they all had a few trump cards in hand.
And then there were the smarter ones, who saw that most of the biggest powers hadn’t left, so they stayed behind as well.
This caused most of the Kingdom to end up empty, while the remaining nobles were busy snatching up resources and territory, whereas naturally no one bothered with the civilian chaos. Everyone was only bothered with their own territory.
No one at all bothered with the public space.
After dealing with these matters, Garen took the last two Black Fire Palace guards along with him and left the estate, rushing towards his cousin’s house.
On the way there he could see some horse corpses waylaid on the road, houses lit on fire, robbers hustling for supplies, and some noble-looking people crashing up shops and civilian houses.
The three of them rode on three Aberrated Unihorn Horses, rushing straight for the Cloud Light District.
Of the three main districts in the Kingdom, the Cloud Light District was the most chaotic.
Most of the people living here were officials or rich merchants, so there were the most bandits and robberies around here too.
Garen and the two others encountered a blockage by some groups of fearless bandits, but after the Black Fire Palace guards sprayed out poisonous liquids and melted them into pools of acid, no one else dared to stop them.
After more than twenty minutes, Garen arrived straight at his cousin’s door in the Cloud Light District.
Outside the small white building by the roadside, there were a few bodies lying around, and large puddles of bloody water that had nearly dried up on the floor.
Garen had his horse step in the bloody water, emitting wet splashing sounds.
The two Black Fire Palace guards jumped off their horses, and started scanning around their surroundings quickly, eliminating all uncertain elements.
Garen glanced at the second and third floors of the building.
The building was completely quiet, as though there was nobody inside.
Garen rode his horse and took one round around the building. He didn’t see anyone. The two Black Fire Palace guards burst through the doors and searched the place, but couldn’t come up with anything either.
His cousin and the others had evidently left in advance.
Garen was still rather worried, so he turned around and took the other two towards the White Phoenix Forest Academy. This was where he had asked his cousin and the others to go if anything happened.
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Dani felt as though today was all just a dream.
She had reached home in the middle of the night, and was planning to have a good night’s beauty sleep, but she was just drifting off when her older sister pulled her up, put the clothes on her and then rushed her out.
Her sister’s best friend, Sylvia, who was also working at the palace, came with them too.
The two of them both looked rather worried and hurried.
She saw her sister and Sylvia meet a middle-aged man at the door, this man had a group of guards with her, and said something to her sister sternly, the two of them seemed to be hesitating at the door.
But Sylvia seemed to say something as well, and then her sister finally agreed.
Her sister pulled Dani away, and followed the middle-aged man as they left their building.
When she left, her mind was still a mess, as she wasn’t properly awake.
Suddenly, there was a piercing siren from the sky, shocking her awake.
The three girls were taken by the middle-aged man to a campsite. It was a large empty space, and there were many white tents standing beside it. There were already many people gathered there.
A nobleman calling himself Cohen came quickly and took them away, the three of them following a group of extravagantly-dressed men and women as they raced towards the large lake at the back of the Kingdom. On the way there, these people kept pointing and whispering about Sylvia, as though they were appraising a product, making her feel terrible.
”I told you we already had too many people. You still insisted on bringing her along! Great, she alone would be fine, but now she brought two burdens with her as well.” The female leader’s shrill voice could be vaguely heard.
”She is Little Brother’s only daughter, after all, let’s help her where we can.” The man pleaded softly.
After that, the two of them continued complaining and pleading respectively. Dani suddenly felt unspeakably frustrated.
”Relax, it’s fine.” A gentle man’s voice came beside Dani. It was a handsome man in white, ”I’m like you all, I’m also a hitchhiker following this family as they retreat. My name is Kane. What’s yours?” The man’s gentle smile seemed to have washed away some of Dani’s worries.
”I’m Dani.”
”Oh, you’re one of Miss Sylvia two friends.” It dawned on Kane. ”Where are your sister and Miss Sylvia?”
”Up ahead.” Dani looked up straight, and saw her sister and Sylvia standing in front of a woman in a red dress, lowering their heads as they listened to the woman speak with an expression of disgust.
Kane seemed to have seen them as well. He rubbed Dani’s hair, hard. ”Relax, it’s okay.”
”Kane!”
Suddenly someone called him from a distance.
”Come here!”
”I’ll go over there a bit.” Kane turned around and hurried towards the voice.
Dani watched him leave, and then started to survey her surroundings, extremely bored.
They were surrounded by guards in heavy white armor, with a few men and women in differently-colored robes mixed among them. These people all looked arrogant, and looked at others with contempt. They only talked to each other, as though even talking to normal people would damage their status.
”What’s so good about them!” Dani pursed her little lips.
Suddenly, there came a sound she might never forget for the rest of her life.
Not too far away from her, a sudden scream gave her a huge shock.