"Those barbarians from America actually committed such an insane atrocity! We must join forces with the nearby city-states and send troops!"
"They went too far! Lord Levi Beck spared Rex's life during the day, yet they came to launch a sneak attack that very night!"
"They must have deployed every last one of their Hero Domain fighters. The other city-states will be worried too."
"We have an alliance! An alliance!"
The meeting room in city hall had descended into an uproar.
Colin Baker, who had narrowly escaped with his life the night before, sat at the head of the long table, his face weary and troubled as he watched the noisy scene before him.
In the past, even when he chaired meetings without his grandfather or father present, these people would never have dared raise their voices like this.
Today, however, he could clearly sense that the atmosphere had changed completely.
Although they still seemed to respect him as City Lord, many of them had entirely different attitudes from before.
Now, it was not just that his grandfather, a Great Hero, was no longer there to hold things together.
His father, a Grand Knight, was dead too!
Of the entire Baker Family, aside from himself, the only High-Rank Knights remaining were their chief knight, their chief constable, and two other landed knights stationed outside the city who had now been urgently recalled.
Five High-Rank Knights including himself were certainly a force to be reckoned with in Pulas.
They also had more than twenty mid-rank and Low-Rank Knights under their command, along with over a hundred elite private soldiers and a corresponding number of retainers.
They still controlled the city guards and patrols for the time being, and could still be considered one of the strongest forces in all of Pulas.