Fish oil could not possibly have seeped out of the walls on its own, so the only answer was that someone had splashed these oils over the villa!
Naturally, no one in the Commander's Mansion would do such a thing. Then who would?
The answer was already obvious.
An external enemy!
By the time Soldier realized this, it was too late to sound the alarm. He saw a flash of fire atop the villa.
Then—
Boom!
A mass of flames rapidly spread, igniting the oil throughout the villa and racing along the trails of grease. Like a blooming crimson flower, it engulfed all three floors of the villa in an instant.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The scorching flames caused the oil to expand and burst, spraying burning fish oil toward the outside of the villa. It landed among the flowers and on the lawn. The dry vegetation immediately fed the blaze, crimson flames surging up to ignite the area around the villa.
In just a few seconds, the fire became ferocious, threatening to rage completely out of control.
"Put out the fire!"
"Quick, put out the fire!"
The night-duty Soldiers were instantly wide awake. Amid the roaring blaze, the villa's windows shattered one after another, and people occasionally climbed out through them wrapped in water-soaked bedsheets.
Everyone rushed about, fetching water and fighting the fire.
Just as the Commander's Mansion burst into flames, a figure stepped out of the mist and toward the gates of the estate through the night.
The night wind blew back the hood covering her head and face. In the firelight, it revealed a bewitchingly beautiful woman's face, bearing the features of the Southern Continent. Her long black hair danced in the wind as sparks drifted past her from time to time.
Expressionless, the exotic-looking woman walked