Chapter 401: The Trial of Wuying City

The hostility was a physical thing in Wuying City, as tangible as the grit-laced wind that scoured the sandstone walls. It pressed in from all sides, emanating from the hard, sun-weathered faces of the dozens of people who had silently surrounded Fanix Edwards and Aila. Their clothes were practical, woven from coarse, durable fabrics in shades of brown and grey, and every man and woman carried a weapon—a cruelly curved blade, a heavy cudgel, or a compact crossbow. Their eyes, narrowed against...