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.

bought the celestial crystals, sent over five hundred purple spirit coins,” the guard continued. “Even Mr. Reese coughed up money to get him out. Everyone knows how

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

step in? If he and Claude go

him down a peg,

if Claude gets hurt, how will we explain

hasn’t shown up in ages. Who knows what’s going on in the city lord mansion?”

at Ricky’s tone and said

been in chaos ever since the Lord disappeared. In his absence, his three beast generals had taken over,

or allowing visits were routine. Even Donovan, the official in charge of celestial stone transactions, operated a

chaos overwhelming Beast City stemmed entirely from the city lord’s absence. With no one at the helm, countless individuals seized

he caused. But how could his father, one of the beast generals and a supposed enforcer of

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