Binding System

"City mistress, I will give you two choices now. Surrender and be my slave or die?" of course, Aidan was not serious when he said this because he wanted to take Scarlett as their hostage.

Sure, there would be many casualties, but he would not kill all the citizens of Nightshire City because he needed them to control Ace.

Ace was an awakener at the Grandmaster rank, so he would not let the opportunity to make Ace his slave because Ace could help him achieve his dream faster.

"What?!" Scarlett found it hard to believe what she was hearing. "Aidan, Nightshire City has never had any problems or disputes with Alselian City. Why are you doing this?"

"Because I want to." Aidan responded calmly.

"Because you want to?" Scarlett almost could not suppress her anger after hearing his remarks.

She knew he was a greedy person. She just did not expect him to be an unreasonable person too.

Colonel Louie looked at Lieutenant Alex and uttered, "Alex, go back to the city guard headquarters and ring the bell three times."

"Alright." After saying that, Lieutenant Alex ran to the city guard headquarters.

"Despicable!" Captain Lia stated. "He wants to take advantage of our weakened state to make us their slaves. Despicable!"

"City mistress, I will give you five minutes to think about this." Aidan spoke and paused for a second before he continued, "If you refuse to surrender and become my slave, don't blame me for killing you and your people."

"Aidan, do you think we are easily intimidated?" Scarlett's eyes gleamed with terrifying sharpness and every single one of her words was filled with coldness.

"Yes." Aidan dared to act arrogantly because they had Kevin, and Nightshire City was in their weakened state.

Otherwise, he would not dare to act high and mighty like that because Nightshire City was as strong as his city before countless magical beasts attacked them.

"General Valeria, tell everyone to get ready for war." Scarlett uttered, "We, the citizens of Nightshire City, will not be anyone's slaves. We would rather die in battle than become slaves."

"Understood." General Valeria left to tell everyone to get ready for war.

As Scarlett was talking with Aidan, the citizens of Nightshire City were rebuilding their city or houses.

They still did not know what was going on because they were inside the city.

"Huft… I'm exhausted." The red-haired man sat on the ground.

"Me too." the blue-haired man sat next to the red-haired man. "But even so, I'm happy. Look! Our city is bigger and grander than before."

"Haha. You are right." The yellow-haired man spoke abruptly. "I'm sure our city will be the most magnificent and famous in the eastern part of the Luvrela region."

"Damn right. Haha." The red-haired man stated.

The trio stopped laughing when they heard the sound of the bell.

*Ding…

The sound of the bell reverberated in the entire Nightshire City.

"What?! The sound of the bell?" the red-haired man said in surprise.

"What's going on?" the yellow-haired man asked curiously.

The red-haired man and the yellow-haired man instantly stood up and looked in the direction of the city guard headquarters.

Not only them, but every resident was also shocked.

They knew their city mistress would not ring the bell if it was unimportant, so they wanted to know what was happening.

*Ding…

The second sound of the bell resounded throughout Nightshire City.

"The second sound of the bell. That's the second sound." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝙚𝒘𝙚𝓫𝒏𝙤𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝒎

"What is this? Why do I have bad feeling now?"

"I suddenly have bad feelings too."

"Are we going to face another trouble?"

"I hope we won't face another trouble."

Some of the citizens were panicked when they heard the second sound of the bell.

*Ding…

The third sound of the bell reverberated in the entire Nightshire City.

"Three times! They rang the bell three times."

"Are magical beasts attacking us again?"

"Grandpa, go hide in the house. I will see what is going on."

"God, are we going to face calamity again?"

"Gods, Goddesses, do you really hate our city? Why are you testing us one after another?"

"Gods, what mistakes have we made? Why did you do this to us?"

The citizens knew the meaning of ringing the bell three times.

An S-level danger situation!

Scarlett only rang the bell three times when it was related to their city's future or citizens' safety, like when countless magical beasts attacked them.

Because she rang the bell three times again, that meant they would be killed and their city would be destroyed if they failed to deal with the calamity.

When some of the citizens were still in a state of shock, several city guards ran while telling them what was going on.

"Alselian City is going to attack us. Children and old people go hide now."

"Alselian City is going to attack us. Children and old people go hide now."

"Alselian City is going to attack us. Children and old people go hide now."

"Alselian City is going to attack us. Children and old people go hide now."

Scarlett could not warn them because Aidan suddenly appeared and wanted to attack them.

"What?! Alselian City?"

"Why do they want to attack us?"

"That's right. We don't have any enmity with them, so why?"

"Is it because they know we are in our weak state?"

"Tch! So, it's that greedy lord, huh?"

"Damn it! We still haven't finished rebuilding our city, yet they want to attack us."

"Fuck!"

Some of the citizens were quivering with anger.

Of course, they knew what kind of person Aidan was.

Alselian City was the city closest to theirs, so it was not hard to get information about them.

They could even hear news about Alselian City in the restaurants every day because travelers who had visited Alselian City often stopped at Nightshire City before returning to their houses or going to their destination.

"Mister city guard, why do they want to attack us?" the black-haired man could not suppress the curiosity in his heart.

"They know we are in a weak state, so they want to take advantage of the situation. They also want to take our city and make us their slaves." After answering the question, the city guard went to the entrance gate to help Scarlett and the others.

"Despicable! Alselian City is Despicable!"

"You are right. They are despicable people!"

"Slaves? They want to make us their slaves?"

"What?! They want to take our city?"

Flames of anger appeared in their eyes.

Even though they were only ordinary people, they were not afraid of Aidan and his subordinates.

Nightshire City was their city, so no one could take it from them.

The blue-haired man took his hammer and uttered, "I will go help city mistress and the others. I won't let them take our city."

Even though it was only a hammer used to build a house, he treated it like it was a deadly weapon.

He was not an awakener, so he did not have a weapon.

"Me too. I will help city mistress protect our city."

"Me too."

"We managed to protect our city from magical beast twice. We can do it again."

"You are right. If we can protect our city from the magical beast, we can protect our city from that greedy lord."

One by one, the citizens took the tools they used to build the road and headed to the entrance gate.

"The bell rang three times?" Lexie, who was in the backyard, was shocked.

When she was curious about what was going on, one of her subordinates appeared.

"What's going on?" Lexie inquired.

"Alselian City is in front of our city, Miss. They want to attack us." Her subordinate responded.

"What?! Alselian City?" Lexie said in surprise.

"That's right, miss." Her subordinate answered, "Their lord said he wants to take our city and make us their slaves."

"Take our city? Make us their slaves?" Lexie instantly rose to her feet. "Tell everyone to get ready. We will help city mistress kill that bastard lord."

"Understood, miss." Her subordinate responded.

The same things also happened to the Olson family.

"They want to take our city and make us their slaves?" Aron's eyes were filled with coldness. "Tell everyone to gather in the front yard. We will go to kill them all."

"Understood, my lord." His subordinate responded.

"Husband, let's go help city mistress." Melissa said to her husband, Alvaro.

Alvaro shifted his gaze from his wife to his subordinates. "Call everyone now. We will protect our city from Alselian City."

"Understood, my lord." His subordinate responded.

And with this, everyone headed to the entrance gate to help their city mistress protect their city from the greedy Aidan and his subordinates.