
The next day before dawn, someone was found lying in the middle of the Business zone. His entire body was covered in scars, and all of his limbs were broken until his bones almost became powder.
Very small bone fragments pierced through his skin. And the one thing that made them even more confused was, that person's cultivation was sealed, and his entire body was covered with a kind of fire-type herb that was mostly used to enhance the hot and spicy taste of the flesh of fire-type beasts. .
All of his wounds were filled with this potion powder. Nails removed. Face swollen.
Everyone who came to see him just felt sorry for him. They are afraid of the cruelty of the people who torment them.
When the city guards saw the person was still alive and immediately picked him up to take him to the healer, they noticed there was a slight burn on the person's back.
When they saw him, with their own eyes, they almost knocked the man down.
Because it's not a burn, it's more like a brand. There's a big '20' branded behind the guy. But, what is even worse is that the brand has been healed and healed in such a way that if the person wants to remove the brand, they will have to dig out the skin completely and heal it again.
After they brought the person to the healing place, they immediately went to investigate the person. Right at this moment, somewhere else.
This was the time when all the city guards exchanged shifts with the people patrolling at night. At the City Guard headquarters, in the Captain's room.
"What about yesterday? Did you guys get a clue about the guy who was supposed to be a rank 5 Artisan, kidnapping a restaurant manager?" The captain of the Business zone guard asked his subordinates.
"Captain, we asked at the Artisan tower and found out that the man was indeed a rank 5 Artisan and he had just taken the exam yesterday. He is Artisan Cendicia. But the tower did not give us details. All we knew was that he had a big house in the rich zone and he had just bought it the day before Our people did not dare to enter that big house.
From the observation, he was only a Novice and it was also at the lowest stage. He only moved quickly because of his strange floating board and from the looks of it, he made it himself.
We don't have a clue about the man he kidnapped. We don't even know if they have disagreements and grudges, but there's one thing, we find that the restaurant he runs actually belongs to Zeke."
When he finished his report, the subordinate noticed the change in the captain's expression. The manager of the restaurant belonging to the marquis' son is kidnapped. For now, Zeke seems unaware of this, but it won't be long before he finds out.
Before he could think of what he should do, the guard captain heard a knock from his door. A guard hurriedly entered and reported.
"Captain, we found the man who was kidnapped yesterday. He was found half-dead in the business zone. His condition seems critical and there are signs of brutal torture on him."
The guard captain immediately stood up from his seat. He did put some people near the Artisan house but it seemed like all of this was useless. He went straight to the victim.
When he saw her situation, he felt uncomfortable.
"Sir, how's the condition?" The Captain asked the Healer who was responsible for the treatment and the Healer replied.
“It wasn't good at all. The other party seemed to have a very high understanding of the human body, almost all of the bones were broken into many shards, but all of the shards avoided every vital part of the body.
Even the scars and wounds all over the body were not deep. The bleeding stopped just in time and all of these wounds were filled with fire chili.
The worst part was, everything was done to him after his cultivation was sealed. The pain must have killed this person, but the culprit must be a good healer or must have a very skilled healer with him. He just made that person barely able to survive.
He will definitely live, but we can't be sure if he can go back to his original state. We may need a high-level healer." Healers are level 2. Since the other party was a Beginner and the person who brought him was the City guard, they had just contacted a rank 2 healer. But from the looks of it, the healer should be at least rank 4 to treat the male disease completely.
At this moment, Zeke came with some of his minions. He had an angry expression when he saw the state of his henchmen. After getting the details from the healer, he said.
"Stabilize the condition for now." After that he paid the fee and went outside with the Captain.
"You better give me a good explanation." His voice was filled with superiority and humiliation as if the captain was not even worthy to breathe the same air as him.
"A rank 5 Artisan expert did this and there was a brand on his back numbered 20. I thought it was a personal grudge, but at the same time he seemed to be sending a message from the way he was doing things. He's really famous, and he's doing all this openly without bothering to hide."
"The 5th rank? Are you sure? Since when does our city have a third rank 5 Craftsman?" Zeke was confused.
"He took the exam himself yesterday and after he collected the badge he went straight to the restaurant and from the witnesses back then, he immediately attacked without speaking anything."
"Alright then, see if you can get the person's details." after saying this Zeke left with his two minions.
At the same time, someone else was thinking about Sam.
In the Upper Class zone, on the top floor of the Artisan tower, the mature beautiful woman was playing with her wavy black hair as she was in a daze thinking of something.
He is the head of the tower of Artisan. He was two levels of overall cultivation higher than Sam. Which is a level that passes the Great Mage/Warrior level.
He thought of Sam, yesterday after he followed him into the mansion, he did not enter his house and returned.
Just now an officer came and reported about what happened to the person kidnapped by them. After some time, he called an assistant and gave his orders.
"Send a representative from our tower and let him get the details from the Falcon-Cliff city." Because, he was the head of the Artisan tower, he had access to know the city beforehand from where he got his badge.
While many people were speculating and talking about the incident, two people came to the Blue fire city to meet the Marquis. They were waiting for the Marquis inside his office.
After a long wait, a dignified-looking middle-aged man walked in and sat down. After exchanging pleasantries, the two city lords came to the point.
"What do you mean?"
"The candidates we chose thought that they were unfit for this particular branch and resigned. The remaining candidates are also unwilling to take positions."
When the city lord said this, the Blue Flame Marquis was completely dumbfounded. He did not even know what to think about this situation.
"Did someone threaten you to say this?" He asked because he felt the whole situation was confusing.
Candidates are the ones who really think this way. No one is threatening us. We are here to apologize in private. Mr. Marquis was generous and gave us this offer. But the candidates were too mediocre and they themselves felt unworthy of this Opportunity. This is why we're here." As they said this, the two city lords stood up.
They left the room with their heads down. When they came out of the Marquis mansion, they saw Zeke who gave them the nod they answered similarly.
The marquis was still thinking about what had happened and he ordered an officer to come and ask him to bring along a rating ranking list.
The Marquis City selected a total of twenty candidates. It's a privilege for them. But he did not check the top 20 places, instead he looked at the names after twenty places. When he saw Zeke's name in twenty-first place, and the names of his minions left under him, he felt that something was suspicious and sent someone to investigate this.
After making sure that the City Lord did as he was told, Zeke went to the Kaya zone. He wanted to meet the new Scholar Artisan, but when he went near the mansion, there were already a lot of people waiting there and they were all children of nobility. There were five noble families with Count rank in Blue fire city.
All the families who got news of the commotion and got word that these very young craftsmen sent their children to interact with them.
But Watt stood at the entrance and did not allow anyone to enter. Sam says clearly that he is busy and does not want to be disturbed.
When they heard this, they were all unhappy but they did not dare to make a fuss here.
Zeke came to the entrance and spoke to Watt. "I want to talk to your master. Tell him that the eldest son of the Marquis is here." She said as if her status should immediately give her permission to meet him.
But Watt did not move to report but gave him a strange look and said. "Boss I've said, that you'll come and visit him, he left a message for you."
When the crowd heard this, they felt that Zeke had a relationship with Artisan, but Watt's subsequent words made them laugh.
"It's not your turn to meet my boss. Your number hasn't come yet and when it comes, even if you don't want to meet him, you won't be able to avoid it." When Zeke heard this, he was quite confused.
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, didn't you see the gift that my boss left me today? There was a number printed on the back of the gift. You can check it out yourself."
This time Zeke understood clearly and instantly gritted his teeth in anger. The crowd also recalled the events that spread throughout the city and immediately understood. Artisan seems to be after the man because of Zeke.
Zeke immediately became enraged and gripped Watt's collar. But his henchmen immediately held him back.
Watt's face turned cold.
"You're just making your situation worse. There's another message my boss asked me to tell you, if you do something funny and you don't let him down." He adjusted his collar to normal and said.
"You'll get an extra gift today, you just have to wait." After that walk to the mansion to report to Sam.
Right now, Sam was inside the divine dimension and made a hole in the fire realm.
In the pit he threw away a lot of flaming dirt bull dung as well as Yanwu dung.
He wanted to experiment and see if he would get a gas similar to methane. And if he can really get gasoline, he wants to see how good it is.
He closed the hole with a large wooden board and came out.
Watt was waiting for him, when he heard what was happening, he just smiled and said nothing. He simply walked into the backyard of the mansion and exited through the back door. But this time, he didn't use his hover board. Because, he wanted to make the people in front of his mansion think that he had never left the mansion.
After Sam left the place, he went to the business zone, and inquired about Zeke's shop.
This store is actually quite large and is divided into several zones. Each zone is quite large and is divided based on the type of weapons on display.
It's more like a supermarket. Each zone has a supervisor who keeps. And Sam recognized two of them.
They were the two minions who followed him to the Falcon Cliff city.
Sam did not immediately move and just waited in place. After some time, when one of the henchmen went to rest, he followed her silently and the henchman did not return to the store.
Seeing this other supervisors went looking for him, and he too disappeared. They were in the early stages of Beginners and Sam was not afraid of facing them one on one. His specialty was fighting someone of a higher level. He could face them head-on if he wanted to, let alone sneak up on them now, too easily.
The next time, two supervisors came to check, and Sam's second target was one of them. The entire time, he made his movements silently. After abducting the two targets and placing them in the divine dimension, he returned to the mansion in the same manner.
The people who tried to make an appointment with him were unaware of this, including Zeke and it was too late when he finally noticed it.