James kept flying and flying, he was moving pretty fast, roughly around what he would guess is 150mph top speed when he is flying, running he only moves around 60mph top speed though. James would arrive at the city pretty quickly compared to most common people in this realm as cars did not exist yet. 'I wonder.... Maybe that would be a good business for me to create here and bring more profit to my family? A thought for another time.' James decided to think more about what to do when he arrive in the capitol. Should he find Mare first? maybe earn some money first helping out with something? He could always join the underworld for money too...
After about two days of straight flight he arrived at the capitol. He saw it in the distance. A Massive city in the middle of a lake with four roads leading out of it one in each direction, and at the edges of each side of the lake were towns. The city was large at the bottom and went upwards like a mountain and at the top was a castle like structure. Going up the mid section and bottom was a ton of building and roads with people walking around. There were flags along the roads on top of poles, with the symbol of wrath as well as across the top of the castle. A red skull, split into five sections, with claws coming out from the sharp teethed jaws. James flew to the city and landed at the base of the city, looking around. He went up to some people and them how the structure worked. Most of the upper areas were reserved for more higher class people and the base of the city was where most of the common folk lived besides the towns outside the city itself. There also tended to be a lot of fights though were usually delt with quickly if it started to involve other people.
James walked around the city's base, it was massive, and took two hours to walk around it. There were a lot of people for different races, though mostly normal demons. He thought about getting a job but thought that as he was currently a criminal in the circle now it was probably not the best idea for now at least. He started to climb the city a bit before he saw a building that had been broken into by someone supposedly still inside. He walked up to it slowly as to not attract attention, before simply entering the building. It was a decent sized house, roughly two floor building and around 700 sqft, though a rough guess from James not entirely accurate. As he walked in he heard yelling upstairs, looking around he noticed a lot of stuff was gone, broken, or flipped. Clearly wasn't just a random thief or something. He walked up stairs slowly and looked around till he saw one room with the door open and the source of the yelling. Their were three guys inside the room and someone on the floor. As he got closer he saw it was a woman on the floor bleeding from her head. He could also clearly hear the situation now. "What the hell are we going to do now! We were just supposed to scare them and make them pay us a little bit extra every time! Now she's like this, and who knows about the damn brat!"
"Oh shut up! It's Fine! We just gotta fix her up, and leave! She's not dead just hurt! This should be plenty to get them to pay the fee more!"
James could guess the three men were from some gang or group, and this family likely owed money to them or something. However, they were all level 15... that's good exp.. Before he could really do anything they started to walk out the room to leave the house and saw him in the hallway. James stared at them for a moment before they started to run at him. Didn't even say anything or threaten him just tried to blitz him. Though, he quickly kicked one into the other two making them fall on each other in the hallway as there wasn't a ton of room. He activated his mana blade on his hand and slashed into them slicing without much resistance killing two of them. The last one was under both of their bodies stuck. He walked up to his head and stared down at him. "Who are you, and what did you want with this family?" Shakily the thug responded, "We were just trying to collect money but she wouldn't give it to us, and tried to fight with us about it. It's pretty standard along the base of the city and the outskirts. I'm not sure about the details but all I know is what I'm told ok!?"
"How are you all able to do this without guards getting involved?"
"The boss has some kind of deal with most of them or something I think and they just make sure the royals never find out! I don't know much else I swear!!"
"Who's the boss?"
"I-I don't know only a handful of people ever get to see them in person! I only recently been apart of the gang, I'm not told much, I just know I get paid to do what I'm told!"
"Alright." James knocked him out and tossed the three bodies out the building without much thought. He recalled them mentioning a kid or something. After checking each of the rooms he found a locked one on the second floor and knocked on it. Only silence. "I don't know if your in their kid, but the bad guys are delt with for now. Your moms hurt so i recommend you come out in a few minutes to help her, I'll be going now." James then turned and walked away. He stopped for a moment as he thought he heard a voice but nothing happened. So he left the house and shut the door. A bunch of people were staring as there was 3 people on the road two of which pouring blood out of them. He quickly left before it got much worse and more people saw him. He felt he might as well head up to the castle now at this point and maybe talk to the royals about the situation and fill them in or maybe vise versa.
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