Annan had originally planned a public trial, hauling Agawar out to be tried again and again.
Olmedo worried that the longer they waited, the more trouble might arise. After all, he was Legendary. He was bound to have friends and family.
Annan went along with Olmedo's plan... and events proved her right. As soon as Agawar was hanged, several figures in the crowd, whose loyalties were unclear, quietly slipped away.
The rest cheered. They knew what a Legendary was, and they knew what an enemy was. But when the two were one and the same, fear of power and authority had made them shrink back. They had never expected Annan to actually do it.
They lingered around the Square, reluctant to leave.
Only when Ingrid announced that every shop in Free City would offer discounts ranging from 20% to 50% to celebrate their revenge did people rush off to shop.
The executioner hauled Agawar's body up and handed it to Legion Commander Luoxi, who took it into the City Lord's Mansion. From there, it was quickly sent to the Skeleton King's Alchemy Room for conversion.
After Annan and her elder sister dispersed the crowd gathered outside the City Lord's Mansion, they brought Olmedo to the Alchemy Room.
The Skeleton King's conversion was nearly complete. Amid a dense, almost tangible aura of death, a skeleton was rising to its feet, two points of Soulfire flaring in its eye sockets.
Then the deathly aura surged like black mist, swirling and solidifying around the skeleton to form a cloak and a staff.
The skeleton knelt before the Skeleton King.
"It's done. He retains the power of a level-seventeen mage. Give me a drop of your blood."
Annan did as he asked without hesitation. The Skeleton King took the blood and placed it in