Chapter 79: The Whole City Was Stunned

  Kama is a commoner of the lowest class in Dalur City. In his 30s, he barely makes a living by relying on his family's traditional craftsmanship to mend clothes and shoes for people around him, as well as doing some physical labor for others.

  Due to long-term overwork, he looks almost as old as people in their 50s at the age of 30+, with a face full of wrinkles. He also has a wife, two children and an elderly person at home. Fortunately, his two children are not young anymore, aged 12 and 14 respectively, and can help him with some work. Otherwise, it's unknown whether he can withstand it with his physical condition.

  According to the tradition of the Bright Continent, children can be sent to learn aura or other skills at the age of 4. Every city has many schools for children to study. However, due to poverty and inability to afford tuition fees, they were left at home to help with chores. In fact, he also knew that his two young children were too small to learn skills and become warriors or mages. It was just because they were sensible that they didn't mention it to him.

  Every time he sees his child secretly looking at other kids going to school with an envious gaze, it pains him. But what else can he do besides working even harder? Moreover, living here means having to pay protection fees to those in power aside from necessary living expenses, using up a lot of his hard-earned money. Otherwise, his child wouldn't have to envy others. Every time he thinks about this, the weak Kama curses those who extort his hard-earned money, wishing they would come to no good. Unfortunately, they always seem to be doing just fine.

  This morning, Kama got up early as usual before dawn. Prepare to make breakfast for everyone at home before they wake up. Today is the first day after Paul's Festival and also the first day of the New Year. According to custom, today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow should all eat something good, start a good year and get lucky. For this reason, Kama even spent 10 silver coins to buy some monster meat that he didn't dare to think about in peacetime, and brought it back for everyone to taste.

  10 silver coins, for a family like them, saving a little can last more than a week, and if they save even more, it can last two or three weeks. No wonder he was heartbroken. Because the meat was limited in quantity, yesterday they divided it among the five of them, each getting a small portion. He didn't have the heart to eat his share at the time, so he secretly saved it for later. This morning, there was just enough left for another meal, although the portions were smaller.

  Makka had just woken up, and with his eyes still blurry, he suddenly found that something in the center of the house was shining into his eyes, causing him to open them a little, then immediately close them again. He shook his head vigorously and rubbed his eyes with his calloused hands, confirming that he was fully awake before opening his eyes once more and looking in the direction from which the light had come.

  Karma, now awake, looked clearly at the thing that had dazzled his eyes with the light coming from outside. Because he saw it clearly, Karma let out a suspicious "huh?" and then rubbed his eyes again several times. Then he looked at that place again, but the result was the same as before. Still not daring to believe it, he started rubbing his eyes again, this time even harder and for longer. Until Karma felt his eyes hurt a bit. Opening his eyes again, the situation still hadn't changed.

  This time, Kama didn't rub his eyes again, but instead stared in astonishment, trembling and slowly walking towards the center of the house. His pair of eyes, which had been rubbed red, were fixed on a position in the center of the house. And at that position, there was a small pile of gold coins, as well as several low-grade magic cores.

  Trembling hands tightly grasped a handful of gold coins, Kama pinched his leg hard several times. Confirming again that he wasn't dreaming. Not counting the few magic cores, just that pile of gold coins, roughly estimated to be around 700 or 800 pieces! 700 or 800 gold coins! That's equivalent to 7 or 8 million copper coins!

  For Kama, who only spends a few dozen copper coins every day, that's an astronomical figure! Enough to make him rich for decades! "The child can finally go to school" was the first thing Makai thought of, his emotions hard to calm. In Delari City, scenes like Kama's are being played out in every poor family.

  In the central location of Dela City, there is a huge house with an area of over 1,000 square meters. The all-white tone looks very solemn. On the gate of this house, a large plaque hangs on it, with three strong and powerful words written on it: "City Master's Mansion"!

  That's right, this is the City Lord's Mansion of Delucci City. Because it's a peripheral city and also a secondary city, the City Lord's Mansion is big but not particularly luxurious or magnificent, its decoration is similar to that of an ordinary middle-ranking noble's house. In Delucci City, dozens of top-ranking nobles' houses are larger and more resplendent than this one!

  In the white city lord's mansion, in a study, a middle-aged man of about 50 years old with a square face and an air of dignity and righteousness, wearing a simple white long gown, sat on the edge of his desk, holding a book in his hand, looking at it. From his deeply furrowed brow, it could be seen that the contents of the book were causing him great distress.

  The sky was already slightly bright, but the magic lamp on his desk was still lit. It was clear that he was a night owl. However, this middle-aged man had the power of the holy peak, and staying up all night was nothing to him.

  "Dong, dong" a few urgent knocks on the door interrupted the old man's thoughts. His eyebrows furrowed slightly, he knew that the guards in the mansion were all strictly trained by himself and were extremely calm in the face of events, so why were they knocking on his door in such a hurry today? Was something big happening? The thought flashed through his mind. "Come in", he said, putting down the book in his hand and shouting towards the door.

  The middle-aged man had just finished shouting when the door was pushed open in a hurry. A warrior in his 30s, wearing armor, came to the middle-aged man's desk in three strides as if it were two. Then he made a single-knee kneel to the middle-aged man and said to him in a very respectful tone: "Your subordinate sees City Lord."

  Before he entered, he glanced at the desk and saw the still-lit magic lamp and a stack of books on it, which were the same as the ones the middle-aged man, who was the lord of Delucci City, had just held in his hand. Seeing the lord's furrowed brow, he easily thought of the lord's situation, "The lord must have been worried about the three underground gangs in Delucci City and stayed up all night!"

  The underground forces in the city are preying on the common people, if it weren't for the city lord's intervention, who knows what kind of suffering those civilians would endure. This is a good city lord, who often stays up day and night thinking of ways to eliminate those underground forces, especially the three major forces represented by the Wind Wolf Gang. Such a person can't help but be respected! "This day will soon come to an end", thought the young man who had just entered, his heart filled with excitement.

  "Get up. What's going on today, something big has happened?" The middle-aged man asked with a smile to the young man who was kneeling alone. "Lord, I just received news that the leaders of the Wind Wolf Gang and two other gangs, as well as some of their elders, all mysteriously died last night!", perhaps due to his excited mood, the usually calm and composed young man stood up and spoke while gesticulating with his hands, looking a bit agitated.

  The castle owner didn't pursue his impoliteness, nor did he notice his unusual behavior. Instead, he anxiously said to him, "What? Say that again?" "I just received news that the leaders of the Wind Wolf Gang and two other gangs, as well as some of their elders, mysteriously died last night!" The young man repeated himself with a pleased expression, looking at the castle owner's shocked face.

  He was also very surprised when he first heard the news from someone else, and his reaction was even bigger than that of the city master. It's rare to see the city master, who is usually very calm in the face of things, lose his composure, so he burst out laughing. He also knew this was a big deal, so he rushed over hastily to report the news.

  The city master naturally saw the young man's smile and knew his own loss of composure, but he had no mood to care about these things now. The young man in front of him was someone he had personally cultivated, and his loyalty was not to be doubted at all. The city master also knew that he didn't dare to lie to deceive himself, yet he still subconsciously asked a sentence: "Is this true?"

  "Sir, it's really true! Not only did the leaders and elders of the three gangs die, but their treasuries were also looted!" The young man said with a big grin on his face. If the city lord hadn't been so strict in his training, he would have burst out laughing by now. It was too strong, exactly like his own reaction back then, even the questions were the same. "Could it be that I also have the potential to become a city lord? Hehe," the young man thought to himself with a pleased smile.

  Ignoring the young man's sneer, he took a deep breath to calm his excited emotions, and then his brain started racing. In less than a few seconds, his eyes flashed with inspiration, and he slapped the young man's head with a loud slap. "Laugh, laugh, laugh," he said, "I'll deal with you later! Go tell the captain of the guard to assemble all the mobile troops in the city at the entrance of the City Lord's mansion. Tell them to hurry up, if they're late by half a magical hour, they'll be punished according to military law. Also, have someone inform the Deputy City Lord and several generals to come over and assemble, wearing their battle armor and preparing for combat! Go quickly!"

  The calm city master gave him several orders in a row, and after finishing them, he didn't care about him, but instead quickly walked into his own room, where his armor and weapons were placed!

  As he walked into the room, he thought to himself: "This time, I must thoroughly eliminate those three gangs! Can't let them have any chance of turning over!" He had been the lord of Delari City for over a decade, and had been secretly fighting against those three gangs for just as long. Those three gangs had turned the entire city of Delari into a dark and gloomy place, oppressing the common people.

  He had long wanted to eradicate them all, but the three gangs were too powerful, especially the leader of the Wind Wolf Gang, who had a strength comparable to his own, at the peak of the Holy Stage. If it weren't for the mutual distrust among the three gangs, he, as the city lord, wouldn't have been their match. This time, however, he didn't know who killed the leaders of the three gangs or how they were killed.

  But this is a great opportunity for oneself, an opportunity that one has always dreamed of, and it cannot be missed. As for the others, wait until these three tumors are removed before slowly searching again. Moreover, now that the sky has just brightened, the vast majority of people are still sleeping, which can minimize public panic to the greatest extent.

  In this way, many people who had just gotten out of bed saw that there were a lot of troops rushing around the city, and soon after, cries of killing rang out. Frightened, they hastily hid under their quilts again.

  When the lord of the city received the young man's report, many other places in Delari City also received the same report. However, the vast majority simply sighed and took no further action, while only a small number of people hastily notified their family members to pack up and prepare to flee.

  Dela City is about to change its sky on the first day of the new year! This is what everyone who received the news exclaimed in their hearts. The two little protagonists of the event, however, were sound asleep in bed. They had run around so many houses last night and were really too tired, even the energetic little meteorites felt a bit worn out. It's hard work no matter what you do!

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