Under the streams of water released by the wooden fire trucks that rushed over from the nearby streets, the fires around Chaste and Undefiled Inn were quickly suppressed, the fire not allowed to spread further.

However, this was clearly a man-made arson and it wasn’t hard to find the perpetrators at all. The criminals all headed towards the city’s east.

The reactions of the local officials weren’t slow. Quickly appearing on these streets that became even more noisy and chaotic because of the fire, was a group of soldiers led by several Judicial Sector officials and a high ranking military officer.

On a vacant area near the eastern entrance that was normally used to carefully examine large amounts of goods, several hundred city gate guards already surrounded a few dozen individuals, more guards still hurrying over. At the same time, they were originally going to impose a two hour lockdown on the city gates to prevent anyone from entering and leaving.

The military  officers from the barracks quickly arrived.

The calm and collected attitude of the dozens of people who were surrounded made the mail-plated middle-aged military officer at the very front of the army frown. A troop that dared create this...