Black Axe couldn’t even beg for his life. The best he could do was say, "Rice rock rain rough rat."
The words he wanted to say to plead for his life ca out as a garbled ss. Fortunately for him, Legion didn’t plan to kill him.
The bloody limbs wrapped around his body and pierced his limbs. They incapacitated him so he couldn’t resist. Then the third, the traveler, and the knight took him back to the base.
While they were doing this, word quickly spread out that Black Axe had attacked one of the leaders of the Golden Hamr gang and had been captured alive.
The news was spread by the onlookers in the restaurant who had witnessed the fight and survived it. The news was also confird by nominal mbers of the Golden Hamr gang and the spies that had been placed within the gang and around their territory.
This news caused a massive outcry. Unexpectedly, the outcry wasn’t in support of the Golden Hamr gang, who had been attacked and who were clearly the victims here. The outcry was against the Golden Hamr gang and was in support of Black Axe.
Everyone didn’t want the Golden Hamr gang to gain another advantage. They didn’t know why Black Axe would go and attack the leaders of the Golden Hamr gang, but they were not going to support the Golden Hamr gang in anything.
The leaders of the other gangs ca together and reached out to the Golden Hamr gang to pressure them. They claid that Black Axe had been lured to the territory of the Golden Hamr gang and asked for him to be released imdiately.
Despite them being unfair and taking the wrong side in the matter, what they asked for wasn’t excessive because gang leaders can be captured in fights and ransod. That is usually what happens because gang leaders usually consider their duty as jobs, and at most, they consider their position as parts to play in a ga.
They don’t take what they do to each other personally and don’t think it is worth it to kill each other for so wealth. So even when they challenged each other and attacked each other openly on the battlefield, the losers that were captured were not usually killed. They are ransod for money.
Capturing and ransoming is normal, but the coalition of gang leaders have no moral high ground to ask for it. After all, Black Axe has broken the rules by attacking another gang secretly.
Black Axe should be punished for what he did. But the gang leaders claid that they have to listen to his side of the story first, so he must be released before he is punished.
They were not willing to be reasonable about the matter at all. They even made it clear that if Golden Hamr didn’t release Black Axe, they would attack his gang and destroy it.
The coalition of gang leaders was looking for a reason to fight the Golden Hamr gang. So even though the Golden Hamr gang was in the right, they would be the ones to suffer. Even the nobles didn’t speak up for the Golden Hamr gang.
So Golden Hamr bowed to pressure and decided to release Black Axe. But he asked for a lot of money.
Golden Hamr refused to back down on his requirent for the ransom. He said, "I can take a loss in other things, but I won’t take a loss in this. Soone must pay for what happened."
This ti, the nobles spoke up in agreent. They agreed with Golden Hamr and asked the coalition to pay the ransom.
White Cape paid for most of the ransom, but the other leaders also paid sothing. Then Black Axe was released by the Golden Hamr gang.
After Black Axe was released, Golden Hamr asked, "Now that he has been released, he can say his side of the story. So when will the trial be?"
One leader said, "We will figure that out when Black Axe recovers."
This leader was clearly trying to brush Golden Hamr off. But the other leaders supported him in it.
They would have been glad if Black Axe had attacked soone else. They would have turned in Black Axe and split his territory between them. But they were not going to do that now because the biggest beneficiary would be the Golden Hamr gang.
In their humble opinion, the Golden Hamr gang was already too big. So there was no way they were going to let the Golden Hamr gang gain anything from the Black and White gang.
The coalition prefers to do Black Axe a favor and use that favor to gain so benefits from the Black and White gang. That’s why they contributed part of the paynt for Black Axe’s ransom.
All of their planning and scheming ant that Black Axe would mostly get away with the attack. Golden Hamr could only fu and be frustrated.
Black Axe returned to his territory safe and sound. Then he went up to the balcony to et the sleeping White Cloak.
White Cloak was still sitting on his chair and sleeping. He ended Black Axe’s presence, so he woke up to greet Black Axe.
But he took one look at Black Axe and said with certainty, "You’re not Black Axe."
Black Axe smiled as he asked in amusent, "What are you talking about?"
White Cloak wrapped his cloak around himself tightly. This was done not because he was timid and afraid. He was afraid, but he had wrapped his cloak tighter around himself in preparation for a fight.
He didn’t answer Black Axe’s question after tightening his cloak. Instead, he attacked him.
The attack he used was his rank 1 divine ability called Sleep. This is a ntal ability that attacks the mind of targets and compels them to sleep.
Unfortunately, the attack didn’t work on Black Axe because he had an Aegis Shield around him. The attack only caused the purple shield to light up and shimr.
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