Chapter 87

"Uncle Dons, I'm not sure either, let's see how it goes!" Dons was speechless. In his mind, the students of the academy were all extremely talented. Once they entered the academy, they would be highly regarded by various factions and then recruited. Therefore, Dons was also very surprised by this matter.

"You, you, you are too bullying." Garry, trembling with anger, pointed at the young man and said.

"Hehe, who made your family refuse the wine and accept the penalty? If you had agreed to the young leader's request earlier, your family wouldn't have to live here." The young man laughed and pointed at Garry.

At this moment, Garry stepped out of the courtyard gate. Cook noticed that Garry was even limping. Cook was puzzled; on Earth, a limp was a medical challenge, but in this world, as long as the injury wasn't fatal, it could be healed. Healing magic wasn't like the medical profession on Earth, where anyone with a license could be a doctor. Healing magic had to show results.

"I spit! Look at his despicable behavior, wanting Murphi to be his servant, he isn't even qualified." Garry cursed angrily.

The young man, having been spat on by Garry, was furious. He sneered and said, "Hmph, old man, just wait! After the security office makes a decision, they will sell that slut to the slave auction house. Don't blame us for not warning you in advance."

"Hey! Hey! Who said the security office can sell people to the auction house?" Dons was speechless and shouted loudly.

"What are you? Can't you see that I'm handling something here?" The young man glanced at Dons, noticing he was a fat man, and that there were only two fully armed guards and a person holding a baby with the fat man. On the other hand, the young man had over ten people, and he was the local bully. So he pointed at Dons and scolded him.

"I'm asking who said the security office can sell people to the auction house?" Dons asked with a dark face, and his guards drew their weapons. For these guards, their master's dignity was their life.

The young man, seeing that these two actually dared to draw their weapons, raised his eyebrows and ordered, "Attack! How dare you draw weapons in front of me."

"Hehe, good! Good! Attack, beat them to death!" Dons's face turned green, and he gritted his teeth and said.

"Boom!" Cook had already used his magic eye to observe. Dons's guards were at least Silver Swordsmen, while the highest rank among the opponents was a mid-level warrior. The magic eye's glow confirmed this. When the opponents' aura flared, Dons's guards, without using their own aura, directly charged into the group of over ten people. With a few swings of their large swords, the opponents were thrown dozens of meters away, crashing heavily into the walls on both sides.

Dons, looking at the young man with a cold stare, walked over with a sinister smile: "Good! Good, I've lived in Magic City for over twenty years, and this is the first time someone has spoken to me like this. Good! Break his limbs, sever his tendons..."

"Who is causing trouble here?" Just as Dons was smiling sinisterly, a patrol team rushed in from the alley entrance.

"Captain Nov, Captain Nov, these people attacked us on the street." The young man, seeing the patrol team, immediately shouted loudly.

"Who are you? How dare you attack a noble on the street? Men, arrest them." Captain Nov looked at Dons, noticing his luxurious attire, while the two guards' armor was nothing special. Captain Nov's eyes gleamed, estimating that Dons was the son of a wealthy merchant. Thinking of the potential profit, Captain Nov shouted from his horse.

"Have the nerve!" Dons's two guards immediately protected him, shouting fiercely.

"Men, prepare the armor-piercing crossbows. I want to see who dares to resist!" Captain Nov's eyes narrowed, but after a careful observation, he found that Dons's two guards showed no aura fluctuations. In fact, Captain Nov was only a swordsman, while the others were Silver Swordsmen, who wouldn't let him detect their auras.

Who would have thought that Silver Swordsmen would appear in the civilian area, and not just one but two. Silver Swordsmen were high-ranking figures, as evident from the fact that the patrol captain was only a swordsman. In the Unrivaled Academy, even the ordinary guards were at the swordsman level, let alone the fully equipped magic armor guards.

"Armor-piercing crossbows! Good, you dare to use armor-piercing crossbows against me. Send the signal!" Dons shouted. Armor-piercing crossbows were a powerful weapon against mages and warriors without magic armor. The patrol team in Magic City was equipped with these, but they could only be used under specific circumstances. Dons had not committed any serious crimes.

"Send the signal! Ha! You want to send the signal? Fine, I want to see who dares to act recklessly in Magic City. Go, notify the Magic Armor Mercenary Group to assist us in capturing the criminals." Captain Nov sneered and ordered.

"Whoosh!" Dons's guard pulled out a small metal tube from his pocket and channeled his aura into it, producing a sharp sound that exploded hundreds of meters in the air.

"Magic fireworks!" Captain Nov's eyes widened as he looked at the metal tube in Dons's guard's hand, realizing the situation was bad.

"Armor-piercing crossbows, attack!" Captain Nov, realizing the situation was bad, clenched his teeth and waved his hand. Two patrol members raised their black armor-piercing crossbows and shot at Dons.

"Roar!" Dons's two guards were top-tier guards in the Dons family. When the two patrol members raised their crossbows, the guards' bodies were enveloped in a half-meter aura, and their armor glowed brightly. The guards roared, and their large swords emitted flames several centimeters long. One guard stood in front of Dons, while the other leaped high and swung his flaming sword down.

"Silver Swordsmen!" Captain Nov, seeing the flames, exclaimed in shock and dodged to the side, crashing through a courtyard wall. The patrol members behind him were not so lucky, being sliced into countless pieces by the flaming sword, including their mounts.

"Whoo! Whoo!" At this moment, a roar was heard from the sky, and a two-headed dragon appeared hundreds of meters above.

"Knight Yel, these guys attacked...!" Captain Nov immediately shouted loudly, as the person who appeared was the highest-ranking guard in the area, Yel, a flying dragon knight and a Star Knight.

However, before Captain Nov could finish, Yel jumped down and walked straight to Dons, who had a dark face. Yel smiled and greeted, "Young Master Dons, are you alright?"

"Hmph, Yel, don't be so smug. Someone in your jurisdiction just attacked me with armor-piercing crossbows." Dons didn't speak, but his guard coldly said.

"What, who died? I'll crush them." Yel was also shocked and then jumped up, cursing.

"Boom!" However, before Yel could say more, the two-headed dragon, which had been arrogant, landed with a loud thud, destroying a courtyard and a house.

"Hey! Hey! Buddy, are you full?" Yel, seeing his mount with its head lowered, ignored Dons and shouted loudly.

"Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!" The two-headed dragon hid its head under its wings and whined.

"Hey! Hey! Buddy, buddy!" Yel usually communicated with his mount, but today he only felt fear and excitement from it.

Cook couldn't help but laugh bitterly. It turned out that little Lei had just glared at the dragon, and the dragon, which was as big as a double-decker bus, fell like a mouse seeing a cat. Imagine a fifteen-meter-long, seven-meter-tall creature falling from over a hundred meters in the air.

"Uh!" Dons was also stunned, watching Yel communicate with his mount, feeling very surprised. The flying dragon knights were part of the Magic City guard, as the city was in a special area with thin spatial barriers and an exit to the underground world, as well as the infamous Death Forest. Therefore, the guard was extremely powerful.

However, before Dons could say anything, a large group of mercenaries rushed into the alley. From their attire and the emblems on their chests, they were from the Magic Armor Mercenary Group. When they saw the two-headed dragon, some of them were so scared they trembled.

"Hmph! You are the Magic Armor Mercenary Group, right? I'm asking, where is your young leader?" Dons asked with a dark face.

"I am the deputy leader of the Magic Armor Mercenary Group. May I ask who you are?" The leader looked at Dons and asked coldly.

"Yel, the ones who attacked me are from this mercenary group. You decide what to do! By the way, they also bullied my friend, who is from the Unrivaled Academy." Dons, seeing the man's attitude, changed his expression.

Yel was taken aback and then asked, "Magic Armor Mercenary Group, what level?"

"Our Magic Armor Mercenary Group is a D-level mercenary group, and our leader...!" The deputy leader, seeing Yel's emblem and attire, immediately bowed and answered.

"Damn, a D-level mercenary group dares to collude with the security office to attack a noble. Whoo!" Yel, already in a bad mood due to his mount's fear, immediately jumped up and blew the magic alarm whistle.

"Sir!" Within seconds, two pairs of griffin knights appeared in the sky, seeing Yel and quickly landed to form up.

"Young Master Dons, what do you think?" Yel handed the decision to Dons.

"Arrest everyone from this Magic Armor Mercenary Group. Show no mercy to those who resist!" Dons, who had never been attacked with armor-piercing crossbows in Magic City, where his family was one of the top families, ordered.

"Didn't hear that. Gather your men, arrest everyone from the Magic Armor Mercenary Group. If anyone escapes, I'll make you pay. Also, notify the inspection department; a patrol team dared to attack Young Master Dons with armor-piercing crossbows." Yel waved his hand and ordered.

"Hey, find Senior Sister Murphi first!" Cook pulled Dons, surprised by Dons's identity. Although Cook knew Dons's grandfather was a significant figure, he was more concerned about Murphi. As for the dead, Cook had seen enough and didn't care much.

"Um!" In just a few moments, five griffin knight squads and several teams of warriors, archers, and mages on their mounts arrived from all directions, and they began to arrest people in the area.

"Sir, sir, I wish, ah, ah!!!" Captain Nov was dragged away by two red-armored inspection department warriors, shouting, but before he could finish, a warrior kicked him, breaking his leg, and he screamed in pain.

"Go! To the security office!" Dons glanced at Nov, ignored him, and waved his hand. Over ten guards immediately escorted Dons and Cook to the security office, sent by the Dons family.

At this moment, the area was in chaos, with the inspection department, griffin knights, and patrol teams from other areas searching house by house. People were arrested, and those who resisted were beaten severely, with broken limbs being the least of the punishments. They were all taken to a holding area for questioning and identification.

"Young Master, the inspection department has found that the security officer colluded with the Magic Armor Mercenary Group to lend money at high interest rates and then sell people to slave traders under the pretext of debt collection. Most of the missing women in Magic City are related to this mercenary group." A guard reported to Dons as he arrived.

"Who is behind this?" Dons narrowed his eyes and asked.

"Dukin!" The guard whispered two words.

"Scum!" Dons cursed.

Cook also noticed that Dons was somewhat hesitant and asked, "Where is Senior Sister Murphi?"

"The person you're looking for was taken away last night." The guard said with a bad expression.

"Hmph! Is this Magic City? Dons, who is Dukin?" Cook, hearing this, felt a surge of anger. Seeing Murphi's father in such a state, it was clear that the girl had sacrificed a lot for her family. Moreover, Cook couldn't tolerate such injustice. Everyone has a line they won't cross, and this had crossed Cook's line.

"He is the grandson of one of the seven elders of the Mage Guild." Dons looked around and then said.

"Can't your grandfather's father handle it?" Cook asked in confusion.

"No, only the top five elders can." Dons shook his head and sighed, indicating that they could only deal with the underlings, not the mastermind.

Hearing this, Cook thought for a moment, then pulled Dons aside and asked, "Is there an elder named Doctor in the Mage Guild?"

"Doctor, he is... the second elder and a permanent council member. Cook, do you know the second elder?" Dons, recognizing the name, asked with wide eyes.

"Second elder, so he can deal with the seventh elder?" Cook still didn't understand.

"Cut it, the top five are permanent council members, while the sixth to thirteenth are just council members. If you know the second elder, just one word would be better than us working hard." Dons replied disdainfully.

Hearing this, Cook quickly pulled Dons: "Let's go to a place!"

"Where?" Dons asked in surprise.

"To this place!" Cook took out a metal nameplate, similar to a business card on Earth.

"Wow! It's really the second elder's nameplate!" Dons, seeing the emblem and address on the nameplate, was shocked.