At the beginning of the day after the auction, the city dawned more quietly than it usually woke up every day.
The citizens muttered about the rumors already circulating in the city, talking about the clashes of the night before, the auction that had brought in thousands of gold coins, and most of all, the fall of the Symons family.
Nobles died almost every year. Most nobles were men of high rank by local standards or even experienced old men. Therefore, the death of one of them wasn't so shocking because some of them were close to their age limit, others might fail in their cultivation and become severely weakened, or even get involved in battles with others of similar power.
Thus, news of nobles dying and their titles being passed on to their heirs wasn't all that unusual, although it didn't happen very often.
But the death of all the members of a noble house was a totally unusual event!
