Just as Angus set out for the northern peaks of Water-Drawing Mountain, nearly all the poor folk of the Port District caught wind of it and stirred into action.
Not everyone was as nervously sensitive as Angus's thief mentor.
In their eyes, with the freakish Hogg Workshop as a precedent, Water-Drawing City Magic Academy doing something like this did not seem all that hard to understand.
It was, after all, the grand occasion of the magic academy's centennial anniversary. Was it not perfectly normal to spend a little "stingy" food and supplies to buy a name for themselves?
Thus, they did not stop the children under their control from going. Some even had the distinct mindset of mooching benefits and picking up a bargain.
Hampered by the magic academy's infuriating Detect Evil array, quite a few thief guild bosses even took the initiative to organize children who had been too timid to go and claim supplies, though they demanded that the children hand over most of it once they returned to the Port District.
"But we've stolen plenty of things before, and tricked people out of charity. What if all those guards arrest us?" A skinny child asked a small Street Gangs leader timidly.
The leader answered by kicking him right in the backside. "Go when you're told to go! What the hell do you know? It's Detect Evil! Do you understand what evil means? It's not picking out little angels! You lot? Evil? Pah! Those guards would think it a waste of prison rations to arrest you!"
Similar scenes played out in countless places across Port City.
Many children and poor people secretly controlled by gray forces in Port City feared that they had failed to preserve their kind hearts, and would therefore be turned away or even arrested.