"The first day! This was only your first day here!"
Ao Weilian was utterly stunned when he received the news in the middle of the night.
He had finished dealing with his affairs and was dragging his exhausted body off to bed when word suddenly came that evil spirits had invaded, his clan's ancestral temple had been attacked, and an ancient Dragon King's stone statue had been destroyed.
Amid his shock, he was also rather puzzled. If evil spirits had invaded, couldn't they just kill them? He wasn't responsible for the Dragon Hall's defenses. Why call him over?
Wait.
What do they mean, I brought them in?
Could those cunning evil spirits have slipped into the Dragon Hall aboard my carriage?
When he arrived at the scene and saw the destroyed giant statue and the group from River City squatting beside it, he felt his world crumble.
They really were people he had brought in himself.
"Your Highness, I'm very disappointed in your Dragon Hall's security," Yue Wen said, shaking his head and getting the first word in.
"What do you mean?" Ao Weilian asked in confusion. "Did you knock over this statue to test the Dragon Hall's defenses?"
Ao Weilian had received word in the middle of the night asking him to identify some people and hurried straight over. His residence wasn't far away, so he had arrived quickly, before anyone could give him an accurate report of the incident.
In fact, this matter shouldn't have been his responsibility at all. The Guard Team had only notified him because he was the only person Yue Wen and the others knew well.
Fortunately, Yue Wen and the others had experienced it firsthand, so they gave him a full account of what had just happened.
It was simply a matter of