A Man Like None Other

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.

guard continued. “Even Mr. Reese coughed up money to get him out. Everyone knows how tightfisted that guy is. If he’s spending, it’s because this kid’s

his eyes narrowing as he tried to piece the puzzle together. “Hmm. Maybe he’s got connections to Donovan. Could he be

Claude go at it…”

to knock him down a peg, let it happen. As

if Claude gets hurt, how will we

The Lord hasn’t shown up in ages. Who knows what’s going on in the city lord mansion?” Ricky said with a cold

at Ricky’s

since the Lord disappeared. In his absence, his three beast generals

prisoners or

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

lord been in charge, Niel wouldn’t 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 supposed enforcer of the city’s laws, bring