The City Lord had disappeared.
The City Lord's Mansion had deliberately concealed the news, so ordinary people knew nothing about it.
However, the upper circles of Tower City gradually began to notice something was amiss.
First, the usually domineering City Lord's Mansion stopped issuing orders altogether.
Then the members of the Management Committee and the council realized they had not seen the City Lord for a long time. The various meetings held every day had also come to a halt.
At first, they assumed the City Lord had secretly left to take care of something.
But after more than half a month, the City Lord still had not shown himself. The important figures of Tower City finally began to sense that something was wrong.
That was because almost all of the battles between Du Ke and Yi Si had taken place within the Ghost Domain.
The two sides' strength had also far surpassed that of everyone else in Tower City. Thus, most of the people in the entire city, including the Awakened, had no idea that an astonishing battle had taken place a few days ago, or that Du Ke had already been slain.
As for the handful of people who did know, they had chosen to remain silent for various reasons.
And so.
The rumor that the City Lord had fled began to spread, and as time passed, more and more people believed it.
Many of Tower City's local bigwigs were both frightened and furious.
Damn you, Du Ke!
Hadn't he sounded so confident at the meeting?
We'll advance hand in hand.
We'll overcome this difficult period together.
I was ready to fight to the death, and you damn well ran away!
How outrageous!
You bastard!
The bigwigs could no longer sit still.
They began plotting routes, making plans,