19 Returning (1/2)

This has been 15 minutes since Trevon was disappeared. Jack was waiting outside.

Jerry was running with a middle-aged person. He was Kleigh McArthur, one of McArthur family guardian elders in Redwood. He was a Primary Rank 3 warrior who was called from his previous mission. The potential of Iron Horned Rhinoceros variation made the family recalled him from his mission.

He just arrived at the pavilion, when Charles ordered him to save Trevon. This was fine since the group was not ready yet.

”Where is Trevon?” He asked Jack who was waiting outside.

”Elder Kleigh!” Jack sent his respect by hand and fist greet. ”Young master Trevon disappeared.” Jack answered.

”Disappeared?” Kleigh was an old man. He didn't start to panic.

”I have locked young master Trevon's aura using my spiritual energy. Suddenly he disappeared after giving out a little spiritual energy. Right at that moment, I have entered the premise. I didn't find any signs of battle, talisman usage, or anything. The only sign was a small spiritual energy usage from young master Trevon. I believe Elder Alvaro had given Trevon special treasure to save himself and young master Trevon had used it. I was waiting here in case Young Master Trevon reappeared.”

”Hm... I will look inside.” Kleigh jumped into the room. He didn't forget to use his aura to lock the attacker. It was the power of Rank 3 warrior.

”DO NOT MOVE!!! Or he dies!” The attacker was surprised. He had lost one hostage strangely. He was afraid a powerful warrior appeared.

”Please don't move!” The unlucky man was very afraid. He had pissed in his pants. His graceful image was gone.

”Who are you?” Kleigh asked. He didn't care about the young master. Being a Rank 3 warrior, he didn't even care about everyone inside the room. Redwood was not a city under their family protection. Unless Redwood family paid the McArthur enough money, he wouldn't help and look for unnecessary trouble.

”What happened to the young man who disappeared?” Kleigh asked the people inside. While it has been some time since Trevon disappeared, he could still feel the spiritual energy trace in the air.

The hostage didn't answer, they are afraid of the attacker.

”You! You! You! Answer me! I will save you from here if I get a good answer.” He picked 3 people who were close to the energy trace. One of the was the sexy receptionist. The 3 people were feeling happy.

”He... He... was suddenly disappeared. He was sitting in front of me when he suddenly disappeared.” She answered.

”Yes, I was looking at him. He was gone in a blink.” The other person answered.

”I didn't see anything, but he was really gone.” The last person didn't see what happen, but he wants to be saved, so he told what he knew.

”Fine. I will take you three. Come here!” Kleigh released his aura from those three. Other than him, nobody else could move.

”Save me!”

”Help me!”

”Save my girl, Please!”

”Shut up! This is Redwood city of Redwood family. I couldn't meddle in their business. I can only help people from McArthur family.” He said. Kleigh didn't care about other people, but he needed to help those from McArthur. ”Is there any of you who were family members of McArthur personnel? Do not try to fake your identity, we are a great family.”

”Me!” One of the female customers answered. ”My husband was a guard for Elder Brann.”

”Follow me then!” Kleigh said. He released the pressure from the female customer.

The attacker was frustrated. He was only a Peak Rank 1 warrior, he couldn't fight against a Rank 3 warrior. The gap in their power was too big. He even had got an intelligence that the only available Rank 3 warrior from Redwood family was outside in the mission. [Why would McArthur family Rank 3 warrior here? Rank 3 warrior is not easy to find.] He thought. [Don't tell me!] He looked into the young man that he kept as his main hostage. [Perhaps He came from McArthur? He had 2 cultivators as bodyguards.]

”Elder, I am sorry, this... this... I didn't know he came from McArthur Family.” The attacker apologized. There was nothing else he could do. He was there like a sitting duck, being pressed by an aura from a Rank 3 warrior.

”I don't know him.” Kleigh answered. He had got the information he knew. ”Just don't blast this area!” He created a pillar using earth material, his element, he marked a McArthur clan insignia.

”Yes, Lord.” The attacker answered. [Perhaps the servant who disappeared was taking lots of money on McArthur errands.] He thought. He felt relieved he didn't take a McArthur young master as a hostage. That was a good enough reason for a Rank 3 elder to intervene.

Kleigh took the people he saved outside the building. Some Redwood family's guards already arrived. They prepared a barricade the location.

”Who are you?” The captain asked.

”He is Elder Kleigh from McArthur Family.” Jerry answered for Kleigh. Someone at a city defender caption didn't have the right to question someone at Kleigh status.

”Hmph...” Kleigh just snorted, and the barricade was destroyed by his aura. He opened the path himself.

”Tell the Redwood I didn't intervene! I just took these 4 people.” Kleigh said. ”Do not attack the McArthur insignia, we might consider it as an attack on McArthur family.” Kleigh put this insignia because it was the symbol of a family. Destroying an insignia was equal to disrespecting a family.

”Yes, Sir!” The captain answered. Being a captain, he knew there were some matters, where one family couldn't intervene. If Kleigh saved all hostages, that would be equal declaring Redwood family was useless. This was Redwood city. Redwood family was the one responsible for the city security. He really wished he could use Kleigh's help. Yet he knew, the family must offer some big reward to request help from such powerful warrior. And most likely Redwood Elders wouldn't agree to save their family face.

”Jack and Jerry! Do not go home until Trevon was found! This happened during your guarding duty.” Kleigh said. No matter what happened, there should be someone taking responsibility.

”I will meet Alvaro soon. I will ask him whether he had given a lifesaving treasure to Trevon. I will tell Charles to send some family guards to look for Trevon in nearby locations.” He returned after saying this. ”Jack you are to guard here waiting for Trevon. I believe in 30% chance, he will reappear here. Jerry, you lead the guards to check for Trevon.”

There were 2 most frequent types of lifesaving treasure which could make a person disappear. The first one moved a person into a certain distance, this was the most common one. The second one took someone to the void before returning the person to the same location. The last treasure was rarer, but more useless since they enemy could waiting for them in that location.

Jack was waiting for Trevon while Jerry ordered some low-level guards to search for Trevon around. The hostage situation was still unresolvable. The Redwood family didn't want to send their young master to the danger, while the attacker didn't want to negotiate.

The scandal behind the attack also started to spread around. Perhaps, the attacker had some people helping him. Lots of smaller families would love to see Redwood prestige to reduce a bit. This might make some light-path warriors didn't want to have connections with Redwood family. It would be a long-time damage to the Redwood family power.

The reason behind the attack was exactly because of Jacob Redwood. He took a girl yesterday. The girl and the attacker were former love birds. Jacob with Redwood Family power had forced the girl's family to marry her to him in the past 3 months. Finding it was impossible for their love without the blessing from the girl family, both decided to break up a month ago. So far this was fine since both parties decided that was the best for both of them.

However, something happened after their supposed marriage. This morning the girl was found dead. It was rumored that she decided to kill herself after Jacob played with her. She wasn't married to be a concubine. No. She didn't even become a legal concubine. Jacob used her as a plaything with his friends. Since most big family would clean the mess, that was the big reason the girl found dead.

What would happen if the girl was pregnant after those young masters' game? Would one of the people included in the game marry the girl to their own family? The easy way for Redwood family was to silence her. She didn't have any decent background anyway. Yet they forget the girl's former boyfriend, he was a decent cultivator and a talisman maker.

Perhaps the attacker wanted to destroy Redwood family prestige. Unfortunately for the Redwood family, their Rank 3 elder was occupied. One was on the important meteorite mission, if he returned here there would be lesser benefits for Redwood family. The other elders were also on some missions or on a closed-door cultivation. Unlike McArthur, they didn't have as many high ranked warriors. They had tried to send a Peak Rank 2 Elder, but it was futile. The attacker had more powerful talismans.

Even the attacker has killed 5 random hostages in revenge for the Peak Rank 2 attack.

Jack was still waiting outside. This was in case young master Trevon returned. He would brave the danger and take their young master to safety. Both parties would give some face to McArthur Family.

Time kept moving. 2 hours later, Redwood family attacked again by sending a Peak Rank 2 elder and another Middle Rank 2 elder. Unfortunately, the Middle Rank 2 elder was killed by a powerful talisman. The attacker and the Peak Rank 2 elder was injured during the following chaos. 12 hostages were hurt.

This created more bad reputations for the Redwood family. It would be a low chance, but if this keeps going on people would question Redwood family's prestige and capability to defend Redwood city in the future.