Dusk fell.
Lin Sheng raced through the mountain forest.
He did not head straight back to the Iron Bone Boxing Gym. Instead, he deliberately made several wide detours, burning away every trace he left behind with his Infernal Aura and changing his aura and physique several times.
Only when the last gleam of sunset was about to be swallowed by the distant mountains did he slip into Greenwood City through a secluded side gate, a bundle on his back, looking like a hunter returning from the wilderness.
The guards at the gate merely gave his slightly tattered clothes and bulging bundle a routine glance before waving him through.
With the Rotting Woodland so close by, Greenwood City had no shortage of hunters venturing out into the wild. There was nothing about him worth noticing.
The city's lights were beginning to glow, a stark contrast to the desolate silence of the wilderness outside. Although dusk had arrived, the streets still teemed with people. Shops of every kind lit up their signs to attract customers, and the air carried a mingled smell of food, sweat, and metal.
Lin Sheng walked steadily through the crowd without looking aside. His aura was concealed almost perfectly, blending seamlessly into his surroundings as he headed toward the Iron Bone Martial Hall.
The ambush had seemed clean and decisive, but the storm that followed would certainly be no small one. A full commissioner of the Fighting Association and a student awarded an elite quota had been attacked and killed in the wilderness. This was nothing less than a resounding slap across the Fighting Association's face. Given the way that behemoth operated, how could it possibly let such a provocation slide?
*The Fighting Association will probably send a commissioner to investigate the scene soon. But Nora herself belonged