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

Shang pulled his hand away,

his

looked at his immaculate,

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

that his

he couldn't see any damage on his sword

It was like new!

up!" John shouted

backpack on the counter. Lastly, he put the pouch of gold

both looked over with surprise

eyebrows rose in

all of that

an eyebrow when he saw the sack of

he looked at Shang. "You

that had been inside the sack of

the piece of paper. "Wait

entered the city

said from the side. "For such sums, we have to get an Adept to verify the integrity of the proof of ownership. When it comes to such sums of money, the proof of ownership is required to have a complex Magic Array on it. That makes

Shang nodded.

you make so

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

impressed whistle. "Seems like you've showed

difference. The village simply would have had

heavy sled wagon for such a long distance

nodded as his journey shot through his

hit-and-run on the

encounter with

The beggar bandits.

It sure wasn't easy.

minute, the door opened again, and John

the piece of paper. "Checks out,"

to Shang and

knew why John

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

bag, and his grimace

bit bad since he hadn't had the opportunity to wash his spare clothes. Also, he was mostly using them

rifled through the bag with a disgusted face and put it to the side after he was

John looked at the sword. He held it up and lightly knocked

CLINGGGGG!

a while, and a confused expression

knocked another time on

Then, another time.

back of his head in confusion and put the

the sword made out of?"

don't know," Shang

John asked with a

know,"

a sigh, he pushed everything

enter,"

door and walked

followed him, and Shang was the last one to

BANG!

and John entered another door

said with a smile from the

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