Hao Ren knew that forcing his way through the Blood Attendant defenses would definitely draw people from the royal city—after all, the royal city stood right next to the first entrance to Ancestor's Great Furnace. He just hadn't expected the first person to come running out to be Willy.
In fact, Willy hadn't come running over because he heard the Blood Attendants sound the alarm. Not long after parting ways with Hao Ren's group, he had broken free of the influence of Vivian's Blood Magic. Although the young man was timid and indecisive, he wasn't stupid. After returning, he had thought it over and realized that his new friends were about to do something extraordinary, so he immediately ran to the castle to inform Scholar Auro, then came running out alone. On the way, the Blood Attendants sounded the alarm and alerted the soldiers on the royal city's side, and Willy happened to join up with those soldiers by sheer coincidence.
The young nobleman's illegitimate son was so out of breath that he could barely stand, but when he saw the Blood Attendants sprawled all over the place, he was so shocked that he almost forgot how to breathe. "What... what are you doing?!"
Hao Ren had been about to enter the gate, but when he saw Willy running over, he stopped and decided to leave the young man with a few words. He rubbed his temple with a slight headache. "Do you know what we're here to do?"
"You're going to destroy the forbidden ground?!" Willy couldn't accept this fact. Although he felt that this new group of friends was somewhat strange, instinctively he hadn't regarded them as bad people—yet in the eyes of this world's natives, forcing their way into Ancestor's Great Furnace was the ultimate blasphemy. "Why