Nobles Flee

The night within the city was very quiet.

Mel held the defensive map that had been brought over. The surrendered soldiers had not yet fully pledged themselves to him. Even though they had done this, as long as that noble returned with troops, they could still claim they had been coerced.

He did not expect to win them over so quickly.

Still, there was one advantage to this: he did not need to pay the surrendered soldiers wages. Along with those who had originally joined him, who only needed food and drink, the pressure was not too great.

The most troublesome thing about future development was money. Without money, they could not purchase all kinds of supplies. The most effective method was naturally to take over the local nobles' businesses, but they were outsiders after all and were unfamiliar with the management of the city's various trades.

That night, people in the residential districts discussed what had happened during the day.

"That was terrifying. Those Noble Lords were actually killed just like that. So many people died that the square could not even hold them all."

"What's there to be afraid of? I think those nobles deserved to die. They committed every kind of evil, and not one of those killed this time was worth pitying."

Different people had different views on the matter.

After this incident, even the nobles who had not been implicated and executed remained deeply uneasy. They could not guarantee that they had never committed evil under the protection of their noble status. The only reason they had not been executed was that their deeds had not been discovered.

"We have to leave Edge City! Otherwise, who knows whether those lunatics will send us to the guillotine tomorrow?" A group of nobles gathered together, unsettled by