The Guardian's Sword

Receiving Sean's message, Dorodo went into overdrive.

Dorodo was placed on high alert. Though the city gates were not closed, the
people entering and leaving were carefully checked to prevent spies from other
city-states.

At the same time, Mayor Quentin had contacted closely with the two chiliarches,
Gregory and Anthony.

After a brief meeting, Quentin and the chiliarch Anthony continued to stay in
Dorodo in case something went wrong.

With a legion of 1,500 city defense soldiers, Gregory headed toward Crosac.

If things turned out to be the worst, Dorodo would go to war with Crosac as fast
as possible to catch Crosac by surprise.

Meanwhile, amid the chaos created by the war, Sean and other members of the
diplomatic convoy would also have a chance to escape from Crosac and meet up
with Dorodo's army.

As soon as Sean and the others left Crosac to meet up with Dorodo's army, they
could do whatever they wanted.

Even with Crosac's larger army, and even if Claremento was one of the most
famous generals in the City-State Union, annihilating 1,500 men of Dorodo's
army and capturing or killing Sean and his gang would have been difficult.

That was what Sean prepared and arranged. Then they would see how things
develop.

The next morning.

Sean was playing chess with Zander in the room.

There was suddenly a loud banging on the door, and Zander said with a chuckle,
"Commander, don't touch my chess pieces while I open the door.”

"Am I like that?" Sean said with a chuckle.

Zander finished speaking and opened the door. He found an unexpected woman,
who else could it be but Aria?

"It's you!" Zander's expression changed slightly.

He and Sean had already discussed the possible consequences yesterday, and
Aria's appearance proved that things had indeed turned out to be the worst of all
possible outcomes that Sean and Zander had anticipated.

Mayor Claremento had placed Aria and Lisha under house arrest, not allowing
them to leave their rooms. However, Aria appeared instead of Lisha.

What did that mean?

It meant Mayor Claremento had probably believed Aria and might have decided
to make Aria his successor.

Perhaps Lisha was dead.

Perhaps a lifetime of house arrest awaited her.

It was the cruelty of political warfare that the winner would always be covered in
glory, no matter what shameless things they had done to win.

The loser would always be in disgrace-no matter what kind of efforts they had
made before failing.

"It's me. Is your boss there?" Aria asked haughtily.

Sean had already heard Aria's voice. Without Zander telling him, he walked over
and let Aria into the room.

Although he and Aria were enemies, there was no need to be hostile to each
other whenever they met.

Only the weak could not control their emotions. Genuine wise people and
masters never revealed their expressions.

"Zander, pour Ms. Aria a cup of coffee..." Sean said quietly.

Zander did not hesitate. He replied in acknowledgment and turned around to
make Aria some coffee.