At the clan’s library.Elder Shawn was at the entrance, his fist covered in blood. Five people wearing masks were lying dead on the ground in front of him.“I expected some bastards to try and sneak into the library, but not in broad daylight…” He stared down at the six people whose stomachs had exploded. “ Core Collapse. I haven’t seen this in a while. They exploded their cores and killed themselves to avoid getting caught.”Core Collapse was one of suicidal techniques used by various secret organizations. By installing a magic crystal in their bodies, they would artificially trigger the explosion of their own aura core. This would ensure they wouldn’t get caught and interrogated by their enemies.“Whoever sent these thieves are not ordinary bastards…”Just then, Shawn heard an explosion in the north. “What’s that?” He frowned.At the same time, Enron who was near Warren’s home also heard it. But he didn’t move. His priority was to guard Warren until he woke up.Meanwhile, the tunnel

A few minutes earlier.The little girl in the dark cloak was heading north. “What was that loud noise? I felt the ground shake for a second.” She looked back. “It came from the direction of that village. Something terrible must have happened. I better put more distance.”She increased her pace, but then something came rushing at her from behind.She managed to dodge that.It was a boar that was nearly as tall as her.It smashed its tusks into the tree, and the tusks got stuck in the trunk. While it struggled to pull the tusks out, the little girl ran away in fright.She sprinted as far as her stamina allowed.She covered over six hundred feet before stopping.Just then, someone rushed past her.She was greatly surprised. She only managed to catch a glimpse of that person. “That guy… He’s the one who saw through my game.”Within seconds, she heard noises coming from the sky.Then a loud noise came in the distance. She went to the source of the noise and saw Freddy crashed at the bottom

In the main arena in Sloth city, hundreds of audience members were cheering for their city lord, Rick Donovan who was facing a chained harpy.She released her feathers and attacked Rick with them. The feathers burned into flames and tried to reduce Rick to ashes.But Rick remained completely unaffected because of his dark brown armor.“That’s a wyvern’s armor! It can easily withstand the cheap flames of a harpy!” one person in the crowd shouted.“Yeah, you’d need a dragon’s breath to break our city lord’s armor!”The crowd cheered for Rick, and he took out a long red sword from his storage ring.As the feathers returned to the harpy, Rick swiftly dashed. The harpy tried to dodge, but her head was still decapitated.Her talons, however, started attacking Rick, but he blocked the attacks and pushed her decapitated body back.The guards attacked the decapitated body, but they couldn’t put a single hole in her body. They could only leave scratches. Even without the head, she kept moving a

Lexar was on his way home, and he stopped by Elder Enron who was sitting outside on a stone bench placed under a neem tree.“I thought you’d build a shop for yourself,” Lexar said.“Who would stay inside stores? That’s a boring life,” Enron said. “Back when I was your age, I used to go on hunting and escort missions with my brother and friends. Those were fun days.”“After what happened today, it won’t be easy to boost our trade,” Lexar said. “Without money, we can’t maintain an escort agency.”“Money is important, but trust is key,” Enron said. “For that, you need to have power. Because clans like Woodwork indirectly support the bandits, hooligans and runaways, it’s hard for the people up north to trust anybody in these regions. The martial association could not exert their influence this far, probably because they have more important regions to worry about.“So, if we want to run an escort agency in redstone county and get clients to believe us, then we have to show them our power a

Later that evening.All the visitors had basically left. After hearing the reports, Rayson met with the other elders in the patriarch’s hall.“We managed to sell two-thirds of the items put for display,” Rayson said. “So, we’re already in the profit zone.”“That’s good to hear,” Enron said while eating bread dipped in grainy sauce. “But still everyone looks demotivated because of the incident with the tunnel.”“You should have never sent an invitation to the Sloth city’s lord,” Shawn looked disappointed with Rayson. “Why did you do that?”“How would I have known that his son would be such a brute?” Rayson retorted. “He was going to cut off a child’s tongue just for bumping into him. We have many witnesses, so the city lord will not be able to put pressure on us.”“We can’t put pressure on him, either,” Shawn snorted. “Even though our tunnel was destroyed, we have to suck it up.”“Now what?” Cobbo asked. “How do we proceed?”“Firstly, we have to fill up the tunnel with rock and harden