After leaving the assassination scene at the city gate, Zhang Tie was taken to a castle within the city. He was served fine food and drink, but he was not allowed to leave, and people watched him at all times...
This was Starlight Castle, a vital military site within Golden Crow City and one of the Golden Crow Merchant Group's Golden Crow Guard strongholds. Security was tight. The castle was filled with elite Warriors, its heavy weapons standing dense as a forest. Unless one was a knight, forcing one's way out would be no easy task.
If he changed his appearance and started fighting his own people in Golden Crow City, that would truly be a joke.
According to the identity he had fabricated for himself, Zhang Tie was now a lone Great Xia wandering Warrior, with no ties, no sect, and little face to speak of. So he calmly accepted Golden Crow City's arrangements and waited in Starlight Castle for one of Golden Crow City's important figures to meet him.
This was a reception room inside Starlight Castle. It was simply furnished, with a map of You Province hanging on the wall. There were several chairs and a table in the room, a potted plant on the table, and, because Zhang Tie was here, the people who had brought him over had specially ordered two plates of fruit placed on it.
Two guards stood outside the reception room. On the wall-facing side of the room was a small, square window, more like an arrow slit, but through it one could see Golden Crow City.
Zhang Tie stood by the reception room window, watching Golden Crow City as he waited for his family to send someone over.
Zhang Tie also knew that the timing of his intervention this time had