The efficiency here was clearly lacking. After Duanmu Huai and the others waited for nearly a day, Hong Lian finally appeared before them again.
"I'm truly sorry for keeping you all waiting."
"That certainly was quite a wait."
Hearing Hong Lian's words, Duanmu Huai couldn't help making a sarcastic remark, and Hong Lian gave a bitter smile.
"There was nothing we could do. Although there's a precedent for accepting outsiders, we've never encountered people from another place before. What's more, you caused quite a commotion when you first arrived, so the Elder Council has had a difficult time making a decision."
As he said this, Hong Lian appeared calm on the surface, but deep down, he wiped away a cold sweat. The reason it had taken so long to reach a decision was entirely because the Elder Council was deeply suspicious of Duanmu Huai and the others' identities. Not to mention their wild and violent entrance, Duanmu Huai's extraordinary height and build, and his bizarre equipment. No matter how one looked at it, they didn't resemble ordinary refugees at all.
The Elder Council had even suspected that they might be some new kind of monster created by the vampires—which wasn't strange, considering that this was what the vampires were best at.
Some elders had even proposed locking them all up and investigating them slowly.
Hong Lian's reaction to that had been... I'm not ready to die yet!
What a joke. The Elder Council didn't know how strong that man was, but how could Hong Lian, who had been struck by Duanmu Huai's hammer, not know? He had only barely dodged it by using all his strength. If he hadn't dodged and had taken the full force of Duanmu Huai's hammer, he would have turned directly into Hong Lian-chan, for crying