Xavier and Emilia heard the alarm and saw that their omnibands showed a red signal. It meant that the city was in its highest state of emergency. It was said that in the whole history of this South border spanning more than hundreds of thousands of years, there had been no more than 20 such 'Code Red' protocols.
Xavier also had a very bad feeling. The again he had been getting was now intensifying more and more and he felt like he had to get out of here or else the consequences would be unbearable.
Emilia pressed her omniband and read about the situation. And looked at Xavier and said," The city is in imminent danger. We need to attend a meeting. Follow me." Emilia then stormed out of the building.
Xavier nodded and followed behind her withholding the urge to ask about the situation. From her attitude, it seemed like the situation was very much out of hand and things needed to be done urgently.
Both Emilia and Xavier got into a very cool looking hover car and dashed off to the City centre.
After 10 minutes, they reached the centre of the city and Xavier saw a huge mansion. It was already as big as the academy itself and there were many tall walls surrounding it. On the other side of the walls, there was a magnificent mansion which was unlike anything Xavier had seen before.
Emilia looked at Xavier, who was looking around in a curious manner and said," This is the City Lord's Mansion. We are going to meet some very important people here to discuss about some stuff. You wear this mask. I don't need anyone speaking behind my back about anything for now."
Emilia gave a mask which was made out of a special form of wood. It was not ornate, rather, it was very simple. It only had 2 slits for the eyes and that was it. When Xavier tried it and asked the system," System, what is this?"
[Host, this is a mask made it of Profound Ghost Wood. It's a type of wood from a tree which had been dead but has not decayed for 10000 years and has gained a property of hiding the aura of anything before the Martial Lord stage which is near it.]
Xavier nodded in understanding. This was one of the low grade but very rare materials he didn't read about much. After all, who would learn about a dead tree which had no other uses other than making life aura.
But Xavier also had many doubts. It was very difficult to get this type of wood and of the type of death woods he had learnt about, this was actually very rare as a normal tree can't prevent its decay and a higher grade tree will have better uses but in a very peculiar set of conditions, the normal plants can also form Ghost Wood. Xavier was surprised to hear that there was such a place existed in this world.
Xavier wanted to ask about this place but seeing Emilia hiding in such a manner, he decided to keep quiet.
Soon, the both of them reached a magnificent hallway. There was a large round table, enough to hold at least 10 people and there were already many people sitting in their seats. Only 2 were empty. Emilia went forward and sat in one of the seats which was beside the other empty seat.
Canter looked around and saw some people he recognised. There was Roger Wade satisfying behind an old man who had a very grin look with sunken eyes. Roger was standing behind the old man with a similar grim look in his eyes.
He also saw Melissa Snow who was staying behind a beautiful middle aged woman with snow white hair and deep blue eyes and had a cold expression, not giving away even a single thing which she thought of.
There were a few others also sitting together with them and all of them looked like they were experiencing something very grim.
The man from the Wade family looked at Emilia and said," Who is the masked boy? Your new plaything?"
Emilia looked at the man and smiled," Micheal, are you jealous that you are not in his place?"
"Hmph!" the man snorted and turned around. Yes, this man was the head of the South Star City Branch of the Wade family. At least he was before Reginald came along and took his authority. He was always disgruntled with this but today, there was a message from the main family that he had to keep Roger, Richard and Reginald safe and that he would be given the authority to do whatever he wants.
Emilia didn't mind this and turned around to look at the middle aged woman of the snow clan and said," Branch Head Snow, I see that you are doing well."
The Snow Clan woman nodded and said," Likewise to you as well."
The conversation died down and things got a little awkward. While the main people were sitting without doing anything, Roger, who was behind Micheal, was looking towards Xavier with a weird face.
'Strange. I've never met this man before but why is he giving me such a scary feeling. As far as I can tell, he is not much stronger than me, but I feel that if I try to do something to him, I'll suffer very bad consequences.' Roger thought as he tried to make sense of this situation. He didn't know what it was, but he was feeling very down ever since Xavier entered the Hall.
After standing around for 10 more minutes, footsteps were heard. They were approaching slowly and firmly from a distance. As time went on, they grew louder and louder and the door opened.
A man walked out along with 2 women who were by his side holding his hands. The man was looking haggard. He had an unkempt beard and hair, eyelids drooping down, dark circles below eyes and his step was a little weak, like they were struggling to hold onto his weight. Even his dress was unkempt and wrinkled all over.
He came and sat down on the seat of honour and drew the woman standing next to him into his lap and put his arms all over her. He rubbed her boobs, bit her ear lobes and slipped down her dress to show her magnificent twin peaks to ask those who were sitting around. Xavier and Roger and the other men who were looking at this all felt their little brothers standing upright in enjoyment.
Micheal smiled and said," It seems that the city lord has done all the preparations seeing that he his enjoying his beautiful maids in front of all of us."
The man, who was the city lord of the South Star City, looked at Micheal while still playing with the woman and said," Well if it isn't Micheal Wade. What would you know? After all, you have lost your ability to put seeds into your women for who knows how long? If you could, you'd know why I'm enjoying this."
Michael's face turned dark. He didn't think that this foolish city lord would attack his sour points right from the start without giving any face.
The Snow clan woman who was sitting beside them smiled and said," Has the city lord performed all the evacuation protocol?"
"Yes. I've prepared for this for a long time. It's not like you are the only ones who have experts hiding inside their houses watching it for terrible every time something bad is about to happen" The city lord looked at her with a meaningful glance.
The woman smiled and didn't say anything. Emilia, who was listening to all of this, asked," What preparations have you exactly made?"
"What preparations are to be made exactly? I've already assigned a carrier to all of the important members of the city lord mansion and I also know that you guys have done the same. It's just a small matter of time before we can leave this wretched City."
One of the men who was listening to this suddenly paled and asked," What about the people? Are we going to allow them to die?"
The city lord looked at the man with a mocking look and said," What are you going to do about this ,Mr Rome? Are you going to save those useless people all by yourself? If you really think so, then his luck to you."
The man, Mr Rome, was the head of security of the South Star City. Unlike the others here, he was born and brought up in the city and he had deep emotional attachment to its people. So hearing this, the felt painful and said in a stuttering voice," How can you abandon your citizens? They are the people who helped you succeed in the position of the city lord. All your studies that you have were given to you by then. How can you throw them away, now that the city faces some difficulty?"
"Ignorant fool, do you think those brutes have the power to make me their city lord? So you think they honestly have supported me for all these years and have not cursed every time they needed to turn in those taxes? Do you think that they didn't hide things from the city lord mansion and do things behind my back for my own good?"
"They are just useless brutes who do not know what the world is and the other cities will not accept them even if they are taken there. They will be key alone in the wilderness to die. So it's better to not even give them hope and it is even better that you don't put us through so much trouble for useless pieces of shits."
The man wanted to argue but he also knew the situation and the other cities. They would never allow such a large group of people into their cities so easily and most of them would have to survive in the forests and they would die before they would be asked to enter into the city.
Xavier was also surprised. He looked at Emilia, who felt his gaze, turned to him and nodded silently.
Just as they were about to start another discussion, an alarm rang.
The faces of all the people in the room paled immediately, especially the City lord. This was a very bad thing.
The City walls had been breached.