Chapter 21: Damn It!

On the tenth day after the Farwind City Grand Competition ended, the sky turned leaden. Black clouds pressed down, and a dim gloom swallowed the land. Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop! Hoofbeats seemed to echo from every corner of the city. The ground trembled. Countless households barred their doors, and the air itself felt steeped in the stench of slaughter. No one knew how long the thunder of hooves lasted. In the end, they all stopped at the same place. Outside Balam Manor. People in the...