When the Ster Family's Young Master was surrounded by nothing but family and friends, he could no longer maintain the composed image he wore outside. "Those damn bastards!
They actually used Fire-Element Law spells to kill thieves in a slum full of wooden houses!
And there was more than one of them...
I really hid for nothing. I ended up fleeing for my life alongside the people searching the whole city for me!
We even ran into each other at the city gates!
If I hadn't reacted quickly and struck first, how could they have caught up to me only when I was already at my doorstep?!"
"Didn't Grand Sage Ismael say he would restrain them?" Helena clenched her fists and pressed on... For now, no Moon Clan members had appeared in Bacia City, but Deluca City was only five days away on horseback!
Even a slower alloy carriage could reach the outskirts of Bacia in ten days!
Most of their city was built of stone, but... who didn't have flowers, grass, and trees around their home?
Not to mention, Bacia had slums too!
Those were wooden houses stretching across several blocks!
Fortunately, the Ster Family had always treated the poor fairly well. Not only did they allow them to cut trees on several mountains near the castle, they also allowed them to take away scattered stones from the mountains... They only had to collect three times the number of saplings needed from the castle steward and plant them on the mountain whenever they cut down trees.
That was why the homes of Bacia's poor had stone ground floors, with only the second floors made of wood. After all, most poor people had limited physical strength.
At the time, it had been beneficial to both sides. The poor had homes,