At the entrance to the Red Rose Brothel.
"My identity is not to be revealed for the time being, so do not spread word of it."
Xian instructed the women who had seen his Status Blessing.
"Your Highness, we swear to the gods that if any one of us reveals your identity, may all of us be prostitutes for the rest of our lives," they swore.
Was the cruelest oath in a prostitute's eyes to remain a prostitute for life? That was truly hellish.
Xian could not help sighing inwardly.
Tap, tap, tap.
At that moment, Guard Captain Jona emerged from the Red Rose Brothel with a group of guards.
They were dragging out three terrified men and carrying a heavy chest.
"My lord, following your orders, I brought out everyone still alive in the brothel. The corpses have been piled up inside for now, awaiting the corpse collectors. We also found a small amount of money, which must have been coins you accidentally left in the brothel."
Jona spoke with a broad smile, the words "shamelessly flattering" practically carved across his rugged face.
"Are they all people from the brothel?" Xian asked the women behind him.
"Yes, my lord," one woman answered.
"Then kill them all," Xian said coldly.
The three captured men instantly turned incomparably frantic.
"My lord, spare me! I have a wife and children!"
"I-I-I've never done anything wrong!"
They begged desperately, but the guards quickly gagged them and prepared to drag them away for execution.
After all, they could not let such filth offend the eyes of the great man before them.
"My lord, the two on either side are thugs, but the man in the middle is Red Rose's gardener. He truly has never done anything wrong."
At that moment, a woman spoke up