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Chapter 491 - Test at the Tower
After a few hours of training, Ning was surprised how easily he could curve a bullet through mid-air now.
All he needed to do was focus his Aether to create Gravity or magnetic pull in a certain direction, and shoot his gun in that direction.
The moment the bullet entered that small area where everything was pulling, he could easily curve the bullet.
Ning could think of many different things he could do with such a newfound understanding of the usage of Aether.
Alexis had also said that if he were to keep learning this part more and more, he could also teleport one day like the Lord of the Aether tower did.
'Focus gravity onto a single point in space with such strength that it squeezes0 space until you need a single step to cross it,' that was what Ning came to learn.
Of course, just learning the theory didn't mean he could immediately teleport. To produce enough gravity to create such an amazing effect required at the very least for the user to be an Aether Saint.
Ning still had a long way to go.
He walked out of his home now that the training was over and made his way to the tower.
Alexis had already spoiled to him that he had been chosen, not that he would've expected otherwise.
This time, he would have to go to the Tower instead of the city lord's manor.
The tower was located quite a bit further away from the river, unlike the City lord's manor.
It was way to the right of the city, for Ning. Even though it was on his half of the city, it still took him almost the same amount of time as last time.
He reached the location of the tower, with a crowd formed in front of it, albeit just a fraction of what was in the City lord's manor last time.
Ning looked at the tower, with a hint of surprise to his eyes. He had seen it from his home all the way up in the mountains, but he never expected it to be so… small.
The tower was barely 3 floors tall and about 30 meters wide in diameter, granted that each floor was almost 7 meters tall.
This tower was nothing when he compared to the other towers he had seen through the many cities he had visited, which each held a tower.
As always, the tower shined with a dark purple glow as it reflected the morning light.
There was no wall stopping people from entering the tower on their own, but there were guards in each of the 4 entrances to the tower on all sides.
Since this tower was more of a law-keeping force than an educational place, not many people would dare to sneak in here anyway.
Ning waited, along with the crowd, for the members of the tower to come out, which they did very soon.
A girl walked out with a bunch of paper in hand and started speaking out names of the ones who were chosen to go through the testing.
Ning heard his name and waited for the calling to speak.
"Please, those of you whose name was called, stay in a line. We will bring you in to test you if you are eligible to join us or not," the girl said and left.
br/A table appeared out of nowhere and a person stayed on it with a bunch of applications on it that the people had previously filled.
"Jeriah Suld?" he called out. A person walked in front and the man at the table asked him to recite the information written on the application form as a way of identification.
Once he confirmed it was indeed the person, the man let Jeriah go inside.
"Hmm," Ning thought. "They are not using the Aether sphere thing to check him."
It made sense. Now that people could grow on their own using the technique, they would no longer need to check for one's potential.
Or so they would think, but Ning knew regardless of the techniques, there was still a matter of potential amongst people.
It seemed that since the tower had only accepted people with potential, who could easily breakthrough at any level of bottleneck, they didn't realize that normal people who lacked potential had a hard time breaking through those same bottlenecks.
That was what going to come back to bite them, which they absolutely deserved for denying the normal person what Ning considered their human rights.
Once Ning's name was called —Terran Forn— he stepped forward upto the man at the table and answered the simple questions to assure them of his identity.
Once that was done, he walked in.
A couple of people stood along the way, showing the people who were entering the way tower.
Ning saw a couple of people walk out. These were the ones that had walked in earlier.
Judging by the nervous look on their faces, Ning assumed that they weren't given an answer on whether they were chosen or not.
'So I will have to wait for later, huh?' he thought.
He made his way to a training ground where a girl was trying her best to move a long piece of rope on the ground to wrap it around a wooden post in the distance.
She struggled for a few seconds to untangle the rope and then moved it towards the post to wrap it with it.
Once she was done, she nodded towards the examiner and moved on to the next test which was taking place to her right.
Ning walked up and took the spot she had left behind.
The examiner unwrapped the rope and put it where it had been in the start. "Incapacitate your enemy with this rope," the examiner said, pointing towards the post.
Ning nodded and put his hands forward. In a single instant, the rope came undone. Then, he used what he learned today with a single space gravity that started at the post and pointed at the midsection of the rope.
In the blink of an eye, the rope flew to the post and using the same momentum, wrapped around the post.
The examiner nearly dropped his jaw watching the test be complete in just a second.
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Chapter 492 - Lawmen
Next up after incapacitating the 'enemy', Ning had target practice with an actual gun.
The person giving the test was an invoker, who would create a single bullet for each gun and hand it over to the examinees.
Ning took the gun and aimed at the wooden post with a bullseye drawn on it.
Ning wasn't confident in his aim at all. While he was sure he could hit without a certain area, he couldn't hit a single spot multiple times.
That was to say, his accuracy was good, but he lacked precision.
However, he could easily correct his aim if he could use Aether, after all.
He did the same thing he had learned today and shot the gun. The bullet curved through the air, pulled by the bullseye directly onto itself.
The examiner couldn't see the bullet curve, so he was surprised to see Ning's shot hit right at the center.
He noted it down, and let Ning move on to the next one.
For the next one, Ning was supposed to get hit. He was surprised as to why that was but realized what they were doing with each test.
They wanted to see how he would catch someone, kill someone, and now take hits.
Ning nodded and strengthened his body, waiting for the man to hit him. The examiner held a wooden bat and started whacking at Ning.
He started off weak and slowly increased his strength while constantly asking Ning if he was fine.
Ning could feel pain now with his new body, so he waited until he started feeling it.
Once he did, he let the examiner know, who quickly noted it down.
Once that was done, Ning moved on to the next few exams. The exams were meant to test one's Aether amount and ability to use it under the familiar scenarios that a law keeper may have to face.
The next few exams had to do with speed, endurance, locating a criminal, and such. Ning finished each exam with flying colors.
After he was done, he left with a badge that was his number.
As he walked out, he saw another person walk out from another direction.
Ning looked at the man and then at the direction he had come from and realized that the Invokers were being tested on a different location.
'No wonder the test was only applicable to the Enchanters,' he thought.
He made his way out of the tower and back to his home. He didn't bother waiting around the front like the other people, hoping to learn when the results would be out.
After all, Alexis, his all-knowing God would let him know when he would have to visit the tower.
He didn't even believe for a single moment that he would fail the tests.
Ning sat down on a chair. On the desk in front of him were a bunch of papers and files tucked away to the side as well as an electric lamp for when he would have to work during the nighttime.
In front of the desk sat an old lady wearing a woman's tunic while her half gray hair was in a braid, loosely set along the side of her shoulders.
br/She wore no jewelry and looked quite poor.
Ning looked at the piece of paper in front of him and read it quietly to himself.
"So, to confirm once more, your neighbor has been stealing your vegetables and grains from your farm without your permission, right?" Ning asked.
"Yes, yes," the old woman nodded.
Ning looked at the form once again and asked, "Are you sure that your neighbor is stealing your food, or is this just an assumption?"
"No, I saw him steal. That I can swear to god. I have seen him steal every few days, so there is no doubt in my mind," the woman said, looking very certain so Ning didn't doubt that she was correct.
He would have to go and check her information and come up with a result on his own.
Ning nodded. "Alright, then miss. You have nothing to worry about. If there is in fact some stealing as you claim, we will surely bring the thief to justice," Ning said.
"Thank you, young man. You make me feel very safe with your words. I hope to see that stinky man get imprisoned by the end of the sunset,' the old woman said and walked away.
'That's a little extreme,' Ning thought. 'Although she has had her food be stolen, so I guess its fair.'
Just because it was the Freelands, didn't mean everything was up for grabs. Only the land was free. What the new owner of the land did on that land wasn't.
Ning looked at the form one last time and stood up. He took the purple jacket from the chair he was sitting on and wore it while taking out a purple badge from the drawer that proved that he was in fact a lawman of the place now.
It had been over a month since he took the exam for this position. In Vilmore terms, it had been about 7 weeks.
The results had surprisingly come in just a week, that being simply 5 days.
As expected, he had passed without a shadow of a doubt. In fact, the folks from this tower had been so surprised that they asked him many questions like where he learned what he did, and why he hadn't joined the tower before.
Ning made a believable lie about being from the outer edge of the Kingdom of Shalor, so he had never gotten the opportunity to even visit a tower until he came to the Freelands.
The people accepted the answer pretty handily. Once the 30 new people were selected, 13 women and 17 men, 6 Invokers and 22 Enchanters, they were then given training regarding the law for the next quarter of a year, meaning 5 weeks.
Only after that was Ning and the others allowed to work as lawmen.
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Chapter 493 - Cruel Punishmen
Ning had been a lawman for the last week or so. While he had quickly learned how much he hated working as a lawman, he couldn't deny that this was the best way for him to work his way up the tower.
He just had to show how great his skills were, and he would soon be transferred to the Aether Tower headquarters.
Well, it wasn't that Ning hated working as a lawman exactly. He actually quite liked it. Going around town, solving his own mystery. He quite liked that and found it rather refreshing.
What he really hated was the paperwork that came after. He would have to fill out multiple forms explaining all the events that had happened during his investigation. That was so very tiresome for him.
What was worse was that he couldn't even use his system to fill out the paperwork. Every time he was done with an investigation and had captured someone or got them to pay a fine, the original lawmen here would stand over Ning, watching him do the paperwork so as to make sure he made no mistake.
Sometimes, Ning simply wanted to show his system and do it all automatically, but he reigned in his stupid thought.
"Hey Terran, where are you going?" a middle-aged man asked, who was walking in with a person tied behind him. This was one of the men that helped Ning with the paperwork.
"Brother Hans," Ning called out. "I'm just going to an old woman's house to look for a stealing neighbor. Just got the job."
"Oh, old women huh? Those can be tricky to deal with if they don't get what they want. Make sure the neighbor is actually guilty okay?" Hans said.
Ning nodded. "What's up with him?" Ning asked.
"Just the same old. The guy was drunk on his newfound Aether power and went to fight his old boss in the mill who he hated. Fortunately, I was close by and caught him," he said.
The man behind him was wearing just shorts and a white vest, nothing else.
He seemed to be vacant and was too sedated to do anything for now.
Sedation was what the lawmen did to folks who had Aether powers so that they could stop them from fighting against the lawmen.
"What's going to happen to him?" Ning asked.
"Same old," Hans said. "A few days in the cell. If he reforms, he is let out. If he goes back to the old habit, then… I'm afraid we will have to give him the death penalty."
Ning sighed. That was something he had come to learn during the time he was taught the law.
Most criminals that were Aether Master and above, if their crimes were heinous enough, and they were particularly troublesome, were given the death penalty without hesitation.
This was one of the reasons why police stations could even work despite everyone being superpowered being in this world. Just the threat of death made people not do anything impulsive.
However, Ning still felt that this was a bit inhumane. He could understand giving the death penalty to the people that did do the bad crimes and tried to fight back, but what about the normal person that maybe got into a fight and was arrested.
br/What if they thought they weren't deserving of jail time and tried to get out.
What if a white-collar criminal tried to escape using Aether, would they be killed too?
They probably would, but they didn't deserve to die.
Ning tried to think of ways around this, but he wasn't able to.
He thought of crippling one's body by destroying the sea of Aether, but that wasn't any different from killing them either.
The police certainly didn't hold that right.
Ning wondered what he would do if this was a cultivation world, instead of an Aether world.
He would have most likely made some pills or drawn a formation around the jail where the prisoner wouldn't be able to use Qi at all.
But Aether wasn't like that. There was no pill or formations that worked with Aether. It was simply energy that flowed through the air, that no one could keep out.
Ning shook his head and forgot about it for the moment. He left the tower and made his way to the eastern side of the city where the old woman's house was.
The place lay on the city lord's side of the city and was right around the base of the eastern mountains.
Ning entered the farm and went to check up on the vegetables that were stolen.
Coincidentally, he saw a man picking up a vegetable from the farm as he entered.
He nearly burst out loud laughing when he saw the man. This was perhaps his easiest investigation as of yet.
"Sir, please stop right there," Ning said, stopping the man.
The man tried to run when he saw Ning, but his foot seemed to have hit something and he fell onto the ground.
Ning walked up to the man and caught him.
"Sir, I am arresting you for stealing from someone else's farm," Ning said.
"Wait, wait, wait," the man said. He looked to be a little older than a middle-aged person, but not enough to be a senior citizen.
"I'm not a thief. I'm only borrowing the fruit," he said.
"Borrowing?" Ning asked.
"Yes," the man said. "I… I can't farm at the moment due to my broken leg, so they took away my farm. Thus, I have to resort to using someone else's food to survive. But I promise, as soon as my foot is healed, I will pay all the food back with my next harvest."
Ning looked at the man's foot. It was indeed broken. 'So he didn't trip on something,' Ning realized.
"Do you have children?" Ning asked.
"No, I have no family," the man said.
He felt a little sympathetic for the man's situation. However, he was still a lawman.
"Let's go to the tower, sir. We will decide there how much fine you will have to pay," Ning said and took the man back towards the tower.
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Chapter 494 - Inciden
Along the way, Ning asked the man for some more information.
It had turned out that the man always lived alone and never made any money aside from what little things he sold from his farm.
He was okay with that for a while, but once he fell down a ditch on the side of the mountain, he had broken his legs and was since then not able to work.
He spent many days in his home, waiting for his leg to heal, but during that time, someone else took away his farm since he hadn't worked on it.
There was still some time before he could get a farm of his own, but his resources were running low.
So, he first asked his neighbors to help him a little, which they did. But after a while, they stopped helping him. They would ignore him if he asked for anything.
With no other choice, he had resorted to thievery.
"Sir, please let me go. I have no money to pay the fees at all. If I did, I wouldn't have to steal to live, would I?" the man asked.
He limped as he walked behind Ning. Ning felt a bit bad for this man. Making someone poor pay for trying to survive was not something he would want to punish.
But crime was crime. All he could do was make sure the punishment wasn't too harsh on the man.
He thought of something that seemed to work for the man and said, "If you can't pay the fee, then you will be imprisoned."
"What?" the man sounded frustrated. "Officer, please. I— I swear I won't steal again. Please don't send me to jail. I- I can get the money somehow. I promise."
"Sir, listen to me," Ning said. "Your leg will need some time to heal and you don't have the money to pay the fines. If you do borrow some money, you will only be in further debt."
"There is also the fact that you will have to still survive on your own, which in your case is very hard. So, I suggest that you don't pay and instead accept the jail time."
"In jail, we will take care of your meals and health. You can rest there while you get your body ready to go back to the fields."
"Since your crime is small, you will only spend a few weeks in there. I promise you will want this more than anything," Ning said.
The man limped slowly, lost to his own thoughts for a while before asking, "I really won't have to worry about my food?"
"No," Ning said. He looked at the man as he finally came to the realization that Ning's idea was actually beneficial for him.
"Thank you, officer," he said.
"Don't worry about it. It's my job," Ning said and turned around. A frustrated look appeared on his face as soon as he turned around.
He was getting closer to the tower, and the dreadful task was about to come.
The Paperworks.
Ning would rather get tossed into the most blistering sands or the most freezing ocean than go through that paperwork.
As he was sighing, he heard some sounds coming from far away. It sounded like a bunch of people talking at once… or were they screaming?
br/He looked up and had his vision magnify directly towards the source of the sound.
He saw smoke and dust rising into the sky around the tower, while many people were running away from it.
'What?' he thought and decided to go see.
"Stay here, something is happening up ahead," He said to the man behind him and ran towards the tower.
He ran through the crowd that was running in the opposite direction but had a hard time as people pushed him while they ran past him.
His speed severely dropped while trying to navigate through the many people that seemed to be running away from the situation.
'What's going on over there?' he thought. He didn't have any more time to waste.
Suddenly, his body lifted as he started flying.
Sounds of gasps of awe rang out from the people underneath as they had rarely seen anyone fly before. Most didn't even know it was possible.
Ning flew, but his speed was slow. After all, he was only an Aether Magister, on the verge of becoming Aether King. Unlike the other times when he flew when he was nearly above Aether Saint.
Still, it was fast enough to reach the tower in a matter of minutes. When he reached there, and looked past the dust and smokes, he saw multiple of the officers, fighting with the people, who by their clothes, looked like escaped convicts.
There were dozens of them.
'Did they somehow manage to leave their cells?' Ning wondered and looked towards the tower, that was destroyed in places.
Ning dropped from the sky and landed to the side of a woman who was fighting a man that had managed to find himself a knife that was entirely made up of metal.
'He probably made it using Aether,' Ning thought when he checked the man and realized he was an Invoker.
The woman to his side knew that he was an Enchanter, so he didn't dare create anything in front of her.
"Terran, can you help?" she asked when she realized he had come.
"Yes," Ning said. Ning put his hands forwards and suddenly made a single point on the ground extremely gravitational towards only the tip of the knife.
In a single instance, the knife dragged itself out of the convict's hands, striking tip first onto the ground.
The convict looked surprised at the red mark on his hand that was left behind by the friction.
While he was distracted, Ning threw out a rope from his storage space and constricted the convict with it.
The convict saw it and was about to create fire to burn it, but the woman to his side suddenly leaped towards him and stabbed him in the shoulders with a sharp object.
It was a syringe that contained the sedating liquid.
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Chapter 495 - Battles
"Where were you?" the girl asked. She was sure that Ning had a shift during the day today, but had been surprised when she didn't see him leave the tower during the sudden attack earlier.
"I was out to the east, doing my job," Ning said.
"Well, then you are one of the lucky few that managed to not get injured during the attack," she said.
"What happened here?" Ning asked.
"Some convict must have decided to fight back instead of accepting their punishment," she said. "Go on and help the others. Many of the other prisoners decided to leave during the attack. The other officers are trying to keep them in, and they are fighting back."
"Alright, take care of him," Ning said, referring to the guy on the ground.
He left the place and went just a few meters ahead, before seeing another fight that he hadn't before because of the dirt and smoke.
A man with a bleeding left hand had a gun pointed towards a man on the other side that was getting ready to fight.
Surprisingly, the one with the gun was actually the convict and not the lawman.
'Was his gun stolen?' Ning thought.
The officer had his hands in the air, his eyes slightly moist, likely from the fear. He was only an invoker and wouldn't be able to fight against someone with a gun.
Ning tried to do the same thing as before to point the gun downwards towards the ground.
But he was too late. The man was already pulling the trigger. So, instead of creating gravitational well below the man, he used Aether to push the gun upwards.
The gun fired, but the aim was vastly off as the gun was pointed upwards. The convict himself was surprised how that happened before he saw Ning to the side.
His eyes went wide and pointed towards Ning. This time, Ning had ample time to snatch away his gun.
As the gun pulled down, it got shot again due to the convict's finger still being on the trigger.
Ning felt a trace of fear in his heart when that happened. He had strengthened his body, but it was still not as strong as it would have been before as an Aether saint.
He looked down to check if he had been shot, but fortunately, he wasn't.
'That would've hurt a lot,' he thought.
When the bullet left the barrel of the gun, just like the gun itself, the bullet too was pulled by the ground.
Along with the gun and the bullet, the man was also dragged to the ground and was currently trying to pull away from his fingers from the gun that was stuck to the ground.
"Sedate him," Ning told the stunned lawman next to him. The man woke up from his stupor and ran up to the convict before sticking a syringe onto his arm.
The convict slowly lost the ability to think and simply laid on the ground with his eyes open, not sure what was happening around him.
"You can take care of him?" Ning asked.
"Ye-Yes," the man said and started wiping tears that were flowing down his eyes.
br/"Why are you crying? Were you hurt?" he asked.
"N-no," the man said and pointed towards the front. Ning looked upfront and behind a column of smoke, he could see a female silhouette lying on the ground.
He walked to the front to see if she was injured, but when he went past the smoke, he realized the truth.
The woman was dead.
Ning recognized her. She was the only of his classmates that learned about the law with him just a few weeks ago.
Now, she was lying on the floor, with a bullet in her head. She had died not long ago as her blood still slowly seeped out of the wound.
Ning felt horrible looking at her.
He had seen dead people before and even lost people close to him, but that never made it easier.
Fury blazed in his eyes like a raging fire as he turned around to kill the person responsible for it.
However, just as he did, he saw the officer, diligently tying up the convict, even though he had nearly been shot before by the same person.
He shook his head. He sometimes forgot that justice in this world was different from the other planet he had been to.
Either way, this man was likely going to be killed later anyway. His crime was too severe to not be hanged for it.
Ning decided to leave the place and go help the others.
He stopped dilly-dallying and directly pushed people onto the ground as he saw them.
The convicts didn't usually expect someone to use Aether to Enchant their bodies themselves and that was usually very hard.
As he made his way through the outer ring of the tower, he finally met a convict that he couldn't easily push down.
This convict seemed to be an Aether Magister like Ning himself and was an Enchanter as well. He seemed to have his body constantly strengthened to the point that normal attacks did nothing to him.
Ning started thinking of ways to find him. Normally, he would get rid of his weapon, but this was holding nothing.
He was using his superior physical ability to fight the 3 officers that surrounded him.
2 of the officers were Enchanters, and the third one an Invoker.
None a single one of them were at Aether Magister rank, so they had a hard time fighting against this one convict.
The convict was like a juggernaut. He smashed through the places, not caring for his body, and tried to attack the officers.
The officers had guns in their hands, but they weren't able to fire it with how much the convict was moving around, and destroying stuff.
One of the officers was Hans, the man he saw before leaving the tower just an hour ago.
That was when Ning recognized the convict as well. It was the same person that Hans had brought back.
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Chapter 496 - Contained
Hans wasn't muscular, but he had enough muscles to make him look quite fit.
His skin wasn't dark, but it was tanned, at least his hands and face were.
The man was heaving with heavy breaths, with scratches all over his body that his Magister rank Aether Enchantments couldn't stop.
Ning saw not only anger and frustration in his face, but also some hints of sadness.
The man suddenly moved. He rushed towards the three officers like a bull that saw red.
Hans and the other officer started shooting him. The man was slowed down by the gunshots, but not stopped. The bullets barely managed to put the scratches on him.
He ran into the 3 officers, but just then, Ning appeared in front of him and blocked him with his own Enchanted body.
However, he felt himself losing in strength to the man in front of him. Ning's leg skidded below him and only came to a stop about a meter or two back.
'Shit! He's stronger than me,' Ning thought. That was truly surprising.
"Another one," the man said as he gritted his teeth. "Just how many of your corrupted bastards are there?"
He pushed Ning backward, but the other officers caught him.
The man, with fury in his eyes, looked around for things to throw at the officers.
"Bastards who only know how to prey on the weak, but cannot do shit against those that really deserve it," the man shouted. "I will get rid of you all today."
Ning had thought he was angry before, but that was nothing to what the man in front of him was feeling.
He stood in front of the three to protect them as he asked, "Brother Hans, what's going on? Why is he so angry?"
"I… I don't know. He randomly got angry while I was trying to get his statement on what happened," Hans said. "Before he could even talk, he started attacking everything, and we couldn't stop it."
"Then, he broke through the floor and the other convicts in the cells below got out."
"It's been chaos since then. Dammit, we need to sedate him quite," Hans said.
"Okay," Ning said. "You two, go help the others. Brother Hans and I can take care of these two."
The other two hesitated for a bit but nodded when they remembered how well Ning did in the exams and his other performances.
Ning blocked the stones that the man threw towards them while talking to Hans behind him.
"I will go stop him, you get ready with the syringe," Ning told Hans. Hans nodded and took out the syringe from his storage trinket.
Ning turned around and smashed the stone that was thrown at him. He then rushed towards the man as quickly as he could.
The man got ready to stop Ning, but Ning had different ideas. He knew that he couldn't stop the man with his Enchantments unless it meant harming him, so he used something else.
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Suddenly, a telekinetic force slammed onto the man, pushing him down towards the ground. At the same time, Ning ran behind him to grabs his arms into locked positions between his own arms and legs.
The man tried, but he couldn't fight against Ning's combined strength of his Telekinesis and enchanted body.
Hans saw the opportunity and came rushing towards the man. He slammed the needed onto the open arm of the man and was about to push the syringe when he noticed… the needle of the syringe was bent.
It couldn't go past the tough skin of the man. 'Shit!' he thought.
Ning noticed it too and started worrying a little about what he should do. The only choice he could see was fighting the man until his Aether ran out.
At Aether Magister rank… that would have taken him about an hour or two of constant usage.
However, given that the man was using it so heavily, it might take him even less of a time.
"You bastards. You claim to work for justice while you only fight for those that break the law itself. How dare you call yourself lawmen? You are nothing but boot lickers of the rich," the man said while straining to get out of Ning's chokehold.
"What are you talking about?" Ning asked. "Explain carefully."
Hans was there too, thinking of ways to get the man sedated.
"Why did you stop me? I could've killed him and got my revenge!" the man shouted.
Ning got confused.
"What are you—"
Suddenly, something dropped from high in the air and directly stabbed onto the skull of the man.
Even as Ning held him, he died.
Ning looked in shock. He hadn't expected someone to kill him like that.
"Are you guys okay?" a man flew down from the sky.
Ning looked at the man and recognized that it was Waxil, the head of this city's tower.
He was an Aether King and a strong one at that. He looked worried as he glanced towards Ning and Hans.
"Are you guys— oh thank god. You are fine," Waxil said with a sigh of relief. "I thought you were in trouble."
"Why… why did you kill him?" Ning asked. He clearly had him contained. There was no reason to kill him.
"Were you guys not in trouble?" Waxil asked with a confused look.
Hans and Ning shook their head.
Waxil realized what he had done. "I— I thought you were in trouble. I just saw a few of our people dead along the way, so i—"
Waxil just moved his hands around, hoping the two of them would understand what he was thinking.
They did, but they still felt bad seeing someone who was clearly not a threat anymore, die like that.
Ning got out of the stupor before the other two and said, "We still have to go help others let's leave."
Waxil had a guilty look in his eyes, but he nodded and moved away from the place.
While what had happened was bad, there were still others that needed their help.
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