A Man Like None Other And The Man Decree

After all, as far as the city lord mansion was concerned, every prisoner was a resource. If someone died, it was a waste, and Ricky didn’t want that responsibility on his shoulders.

He had seen countless brawls in his time, but the way Jared had effortlessly dispatched over a dozen cultivators was unlike anything he’d witnessed before.

“Wait a second,” Ricky muttered to himself. “I’ve seen this guy before. He came here once… to visit someone.” He turned to the guard beside him. “What’s this kid’s story again?”

“He got locked up for hitting Niel Buckley, the son of the Buckley family,” the guard explained.

“They arrested him on the spot.”

“Hitting Niel? That sounds like he was asking for trouble,” Ricky said, frowning.

was locked up, Mr. Reese, the one who bought the celestial crystals, sent over five hundred purple spirit coins,” the guard continued. “Even Mr.

puzzle together. “Hmm. Maybe he’s got connections to Donovan. Could he be a

Claude go at it…” The guard trailed off, leaning in

“Don’t bother. I’ve had enough of Claude and his constant grandstanding. If someone’s finally going to knock him down a peg, let it happen. As long as nobody

Claude gets hurt, how will we explain that to the

what? That I didn’t do anything? The Lord hasn’t shown up in ages. Who knows what’s going on in the city lord mansion?”

flinched at Ricky’s tone and

absence, his three beast generals had taken over, but their constant

their pockets. Bribes for releasing prisoners or allowing visits were routine. Even Donovan, the official in charge of celestial stone

lord’s absence. With no one at

have been so brazen, running roughshod over others without a care for the damage he caused. But how could his father, one of the beast generals and a