The two of them stopped before the absolutely gigantic, closed gates.

"Hey, John! Open up!" the scout shouted.

Shang heard some shuffling coming from the other side of the gate, and a small slit opened.

"Oh, I thought you wouldn't come today," the guard behind the door, John, said.

"I've met a traveler, and I showed him around. Took a bit longer than expected," the scout said, gesturing towards Shang.

The eyes behind the slit moved to Shang.

"That late?" he asked.

"Sorry," Shang said.

Shang heard a groan coming from behind the gate.

Creak!

A small door built into the gigantic gate opened, and a guard in bronze armor stepped outside.

Shang had seen several guards and soldiers from all the different cities and towns, and he had noticed that the lowest-ranked guards always had bronze-colored armor.

However, just because the color was the same didn't mean that all the sets of armor were identical.

The normal guards in the Central Wild had worn normal bronze. It was useful for battle, but it wasn't the greatest. However, these guards also hadn't been very powerful. They had been even weaker than Shang.

Meanwhile, the guards on Blizzard's Edge, who had also worn bronze armor, had been far more powerful. Even though their armor had been colored bronze, Shang had noticed that their armor felt way harder and more powerful.

And now, Shang was confronted with a third kind of bronze armor.

John's armor felt about equally as powerful as the silver armor the commander in Blizzard's Edge had worn.

On top of that, this guard gave Shang a feeling of mortal danger.

This normal guard was far more powerful than Shang.

Shang guessed that the guard was in the middle of the Second Realm, the General Stage. He was about as powerful as the dogs in the Farm Line.

"Fine!" John grumbled as he stepped out. "Put away your coat. Show your weapons, equipment, and valuables."

Then, John looked at the scout as he remembered something. "By the way, William, have you searched him?"

"No," William answered directly.

John frowned. "Why not?"

"Because it wouldn't have made a difference," William said. "If I searched him and I told you that everything's fine, you would've still searched him. So, why should I?"

"That's reckless!" John said with annoyance. "We need to check every unknown person. Otherwise, we'll put the city at risk!"

William slowly looked at Shang.

Then, he looked at John with a raised eyebrow.

They looked at each other for a while.

"Hmph," John grumbled as he averted his eyes. "Fine, fine! You, put your stuff to the side!"

beside the gate. Then, he took

pulled his hand away,

looked at his sword with

at his immaculate, black

the sword?' Shang asked himself. 'I'm sure it got damaged in the

sure that his sword had

he couldn't see any damage on his sword

It was like new!

John shouted

backpack on

with surprise when they heard

eyebrows rose

of

an eyebrow when he

looked at Shang. "You

paper that had been inside the

the piece

the city again

verify the integrity of the proof of ownership. When it comes to such sums of money, the proof of

Shang nodded.

make

Frozen Lake Stag in Coldew Village," Shang explained. "The villagers gave me a sled wagon full of Ice Wood as repayment, and I

whistle. "Seems like you've showed up at exactly the

"Well, it wouldn't have made much of a difference. The village simply would have had a worse harvest

such a long distance was probably quite

nodded as his journey shot

hit-and-run on

with

The beggar bandits.

It sure wasn't easy.

minute, the door opened

over the piece of paper. "Checks out,"

sack of gold back to Shang and looked at the coat with a

why John

liked Pest Cats, and second of all, that coat hadn't been washed in

the bag,

opportunity to wash his spare

bag with a disgusted face and

the sword. He held it up and lightly knocked on it with one of his

CLINGGGGG!

vibrated for a while, and a confused expression appeared

he knocked another time on

Then, another time.

back of his head in confusion

the sword made

don't know,"

know?" John asked

don't know,"

a sigh, he pushed everything

enter," he

door

him, and Shang was the

BANG!

door was closed behind Shang, and John entered another door

probably woke him," William said with a smile

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