He left the shop, a bit angry but accepting how life is to him as someone who has no money and no family.
Meanwhile, the money pouch next to the young Nobel had disappeared, and he assumed that the boy who walked past him had stolen it.
And as the boy kept walking through the city again, he was hit from behind, making him fall unconscious.
As he woke up, he realized he was no longer in the city, a stranded area, he was tied to a tree on a hill away from the city, in front of him was the young noble, looking at him angrily, and two of his lackeys who were muscular and big.
The boy looked at them with pleading eyes, scared. And asked
"Who are you people? Why are you doing this to me? What did I do?"
The boy has lots of questions, but he could manage to only spit out these three questions.
The young nobel looked at him and said "Lu Xian, from the Lu family" it's an prestigious noble family in the Xiancheng city, which was the city they were in, which is also the capital of the Tianshang empire, the Lu family is the third strongest family in the capital, excluding the imperial family.
Then Lu Xian slapped the boy and said "how dare you steal my property, where did you hide the money?!" He looked at the boy angrily.
The boy's cheek was red from the slap, it stinged him, the boy tearing up said
"I didn't steal anything.."
Lu Xian turned to his lackeys and said "beat him to death"
They nodded before cracking their knuckles and slowly approached the tied up boy.
Lu Xian stood aside to not get stained by blood, watching the boy get beaten by them, after about an half an hour of beating, the boy was almost dead.
The boy mustered up his strength and said
"Please.. someone... Help me" but the beating continued
Until...