A quarter of an hour later, several Seventh-Rank Spellcasters worked together to extinguish the blaze at the Long Clan's warehouse.
A few lingering flames still burned at the scene, but they no longer posed any serious danger.
Embroidered Uniform Thousand-Household Officer Cao Xuan had arrived early.
The wind was strong that day, and the air was parched and dry.
He feared that sparks from the blaze would ignite other buildings in the city and spread the fire.
Cao Xuan had initially been both shocked and furious.
He was furious that the Iron Banner Gang had dared attack the Long Household inside the city and set fires so brazenly.
What shocked him was that the Iron Banner Gang possessed the strength to take the Long Household's warehouse without a sound, while the nearby City Guard and the guards of the powerful aristocratic households remained entirely unaware.
Once the fire was extinguished, Cao Xuan saw the words "Bloodwind Bandits" on the wall.
Because of the fire, the blood on the wall had long since dried, leaving only brown stains.
The bloody writing had also been burned beyond recognition, making the handwriting difficult to distinguish.
However, an expert from Six Fan Gate dug into the wall on the spot and discovered that the blood had seeped deep into the stone, much like the writing left at the Bloodwind Bandits' previous crime scenes.
Nearby, experts from the City Guard and Six Fan Gate were also discussing it in hushed voices.
"The Long Household really has had rotten luck. The Iron Banner Gang inflicted heavy losses on them during the day, and their second legitimate son died, too. Then the Bloodwind Bandits burned their warehouse at night."
"This must have dealt them a crippling blow. The goods here were probably worth more than eighty thousand