"M-my lord... we can't sell it..."
"No one wants it, even for a single copper coin!"
The oldest of the five, a middle-aged man nearing old age who seemed to be their leader, cried out miserably...
He was not making things up. These days, anyone who joined Chaos City Outer City was assigned a house.
Even so, fewer than ten percent of the houses in Chaos City Outer City were occupied...
As a result, houses, which should have offered a place to settle down, had become the least valuable things of all...
Polpi grew even angrier at those words.
Especially as the crowd of onlookers kept growing.
When they heard the old man say the house could not be sold, they nodded in agreement, as though his words had struck a chord...
"My lord! Don't kill us! What do you think of her? She could be your concubine!"
Seeing Polpi grow increasingly furious, the old man hurriedly pulled a young woman beside him forward, ready to hand her over to Polpi...
Although the woman was no peerless beauty, she was quite attractive by the Desert's standards.
Polpi was tempted.
Besides, he had coveted this woman for a long time. If the City Lord had not kept going on about rules, he would have dragged her home long ago...
An Kai, who had been watching all along, smiled.
Polpi was a talented fellow, but also a beast.
Without An Kai's intervention, the woman would probably become Polpi's concubine, take control of him, and gradually swallow up Chaos City Outer City.
Indeed, the five people before Polpi were not ordinary refugees.
The strongest of the five was around the tenth level of Tier Three: the woman who was about to become Polpi's concubine.
The other four were all at least Tier Three