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.

he was locked up, Mr. Reese, the one who 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 tightfisted that guy is. If

piece the puzzle together. “Hmm. Maybe he’s got connections

go at it…” The guard

finally going to knock him down a peg,

Claude gets hurt, how will we explain

shown up in ages. Who knows what’s going on in the

guard flinched at Ricky’s tone

absence, his three beast generals had taken over, but their constant disagreements left the city’s administration in

releasing prisoners or allowing visits were routine. Even

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

over others without a care for the damage he caused. But how could his father, one of the

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