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.

purple spirit coins,” the guard continued. “Even

narrowing as he tried to piece the puzzle together. “Hmm. Maybe he’s got

go at

someone’s finally going to knock him down a peg, let it happen. As long as nobody dies, I don’t see the problem. It’s been a while

how will we

up in ages. Who

guard flinched at Ricky’s tone

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

like Ricky found plenty of opportunities to line their pockets. Bribes for releasing prisoners or allowing visits were routine. Even Donovan, the official in charge of

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

city 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