Dust City
The city officials have blocked the main gate. No one is allowed to enter or leave. They are looking for the intruder.
The intruder is suspected to be a wandering Supre Wizard. When the guards at the main gate heard this, they were shocked to the core.
So of them rembered allowing a wandering Supre Wizard to enter the city earlier. Their faces turned pale with fright.
They didn't want to be seen by the officials; otherwise, they would be interrogated as well.
The wandering wizards and wizards from other forces were standing in queues on both sides of the gate.
The city guard captain was summoned by the city officials. The city officials were going to ask how they allowed a wandering Supre Wizard into the city.
The captain didn't go alone. He went with a few of the guards. After hearing the questions from the officials, they were shocked and scared.
But it was no secret that they didn't dare to offend soone at the level of a Supre.
Even if the person ca from the wandering wizard queue, it didn't guarantee that person was without a background.
The captain then recounted the circumstances: how they didn't want to anger the Supre Wizard. The officials didn't make things difficult because they knew how things operated there.
If it were them, they would have done the sa thing. But the higher-ups had ordered them to collect details, so they were doing their job.
Not long after, they left the place. The captain and the guards returned to their positions without punishnt.
The visitors were standing in line. They didn't move away from the spot. The officials had already checked their strength. They had even brought a magic artifact to find out whether anyone was hiding their strength.
Though they didn't go so far as to inspect strictly, they were able to know that the masked Supre Wizard was not among them.
At the sa ti, the officials went to various hotels to look for the culprit. Earlier, everyone had witnessed soone flying over the compound of the City Lord's mansion.
After that, none of them had seen the person coming back. It ant the person could be hiding there. Yet, the officials were searching the whole city.
A small number of teams were left in the mansion, but everyone was doing this for a small possibility.
What if the intruder used so magic treasure to co back? Earlier, the City Lord had used his ntal power to scan the mansion and its surroundings. He didn't find anything. So, most of them were searching the city.
Ti went by.
All the hotels, inns, and hostays were checked. But there was no sign of the masked Supre Wizard.
anwhile, the Dark Faction Wizards were confused. They were witnesses to the whole incident. They had seen their target entering the mansion but not coming back.
The higher-ups of their organization thought it could be so kind of plot by the City Lord of Dust City.
Because they were sure that the target didn't co back, they had been keeping an eye on the masked Supre Wizard ever since he entered the city.
They had n all over the city, including the city gate, so no information could escape their eyes.
The Dark Faction higher-ups treated it as a conspiracy by the City Lord's mansion, so they asked their n to stop all of their operations and stay low.
On the other hand, the incident alerted so of the White Wizard Faction and neutral factions in the city. Dust City is one of the most famous neutral cities in the whole Dark Territory.
Their City Lord is a famous Forbidden Wizard. Because of him, no Supre or Magic Lords caused problems here. Yet, today, sothing happened.
Both the White Faction and neutral factions didn't know what happened. They only knew that city officials were looking for an intruder.
The intruder was a Supre Wizard and had entered through the wandering wizards' queue.
Like the Dark Faction, they used their people to collect information. They were monitoring the situation now.
Their factions didn't find anyone. But the City Lord's mansion wouldn't do a search without a reason.
They decided to wait and watch as well. They didn't know who dared to enter the City Lord's mansion.
More importantly, they were worried about the City Lord. It is because of the City Lord that there is a balance between the various forces.
Now, soone had entered the mansion, so he must have known about it. They were curious about what the City Lord was up to.
…
Outside
Old man Rock and the flying salamander noticed the disturbance at the gate. Rock imdiately thought of the Master. He knew sothing had happened.
He couldn't leave the place. There was a crimson chain of curses binding his injured mana core.
He couldn't leave behind his master. Moreover, the flying salamander was the sa. Though it was not bound by the curse of the crimson chain, it had already tasted the benefits.
The nurous resources consud earlier had advanced its bloodline and brought progress. Both of them decided to stay here until their Master ca out of the city.
…
Guest Room
Forbidden Wizard Remi was walking back and forth. The earlier disturbance had unsettled him.
Although the incident was not related to him, he wanted to get to the bottom of the problem. He wanted to know whether it was a false alarm or if soone had really entered the mansion.
That's why he went to the underground prison to check. That place was fine. The Silver Tower Manager was locked up there.
He didn't find any traces of new mana in that place, so no one had entered the underground prison.
"Maybe I'm overthinking?" Remi thought.
He knew about Dust City. The city appears to be calm, but the undercurrents are surging.
Especially the Dark Factions in the city, who had long been wanting to break the balance to gain more strength and resources.
He thought it could be their shady work. They could be trying to probe the structure of the city lord mansion.
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