Chapter 115: Quickly clearing the board.

As chaos started to settle down in the city and smoke in the air cleared, Sigrid led a procession of volunteers to clean up the streets and clear up the places that had been used as a battlefield.

Soldiers, carried away bodies to morgues, teams of citizens worked tirelessly to remove the charred remnants of wooden stalls. They sifted through the debris to save the humans and animals that were trapped.

Sigrid and the Thorin’s led by example, having porridge and bread stands set up in different places to feed those that were temporarily displaced. When lunch time came, they served food and water.

She personally joined in all the activities, her hands became as calloused and dirty as this of the people, her back ached and her feet were on fire but her hopeful smile did not dwindle.

When Cosmos finally found her in the evening, she was sitting inside a private tent getting her legs massaged by two maids. It was the same tent where all the food supplies were being kept.

"My God, how do you look worse than I do!" Cosmos exclaimed when he got a look at her.

Sigrid’s once pristine features were now smudged with dirt and sweat which told the tale of a long, arduous day spent toiling alongside the commoners.

Her emerald eyes were rimmed with dark circles, evidence of a sleepless night. Strands of her hair had escaped through the confines of her once neat bun and they clung to her forehead that was slightly dump with perspiration.

She smiled, her lips slightly chapped and pale curved upwards tiredly. "It was worth it."

"The pictures or the reputation of a saint?" Cosmos asked.

the bone out of the goodness of her heart. She was not all bad he knew, she

it," she answered. "If you have been with my husband this entire time then I assume that you have come from the royal castle. Should I prepare my black

if they heard anything, they would not repeat it. Still, Sigrid did not think that revealing everything to

us." she

and the two remained alone in the tent. Cosmos sat down on one of the wooden chairs and threw the sword down. He unscrewed his flask and took a sip of

had a drink all day." he groaned. "I feel as bad as

you stop commenting on my looks?" She

beauty pills and masks you know." he casually

thought about the prices and winced. "I am not spending one hundred seventy thousand dollars on a beauty mask. It took a lot of effort for me to look like this,

kill her so suddenly, I thought you wanted to put her together with Emmah and then get rid of them together. You told me to grab Bane Silberuss but didn’t

to do with a plan in mind. Initially I was going to use him to frame Emmah

now. When I saw the smoke and fires I changed the plan and decided to use Bane a different

kill her?"

a massage and

I have to clear up the board quickly so that the playing field is left with only two players; me and Emmah. I am just one person, I cannot fight Emmah, Rina, the Ye’s, the Windrider’s, Thalassa, Romilda and all the other schemers on my

that I should just get rid of an enemy as the opportunity had presented itself. If there is chaos

useless to Sigrid. She was just a character that supported Emmah financially and built

planned to replace the old Rina with a new one that she

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