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Chapter 16 - Infamous

A beautiful city with medieval style buildings most built of stone and timber, there are no skyscrapers here as most buildings are two to three storeys high, this beautiful city is surrounded by a mighty 150 meter wall made of grey stone. The wall surrounds the entire city to protect it from the things that the magic world brings. 

In the centre of this marvellous city is a giant 20 meter statue made of white stone, of an old man with a long beard, in a magicians robe, he's holding a staff in his left hand and a book in the right hand. The staff represents the power of mages while the book is a symbol to remind people that being a mage is not just about power, it's about knowledge and research. 

The statue looks might indeed and it's height casts quite the intimidating shadow on the land below. 

In front of the statue is a five storey building made of white stone, with incredible architecture, and beautiful carvings on it's majestic frame with smaller statues by the huge double doors and a giant glass window at the top. 

This is the city Union centre which is where the all the powerful families and clans meet to discuss important matters, and right now at the top of the building is a gathering of six people four males and two females, these are the heads of the five most powerful clans and families in the city and the last individual is the city lord, whom is a viscount. 

"According to the report, his name is Astro Cross, he grew up in a small orphanage in a small town east of here, a town called Santoy Peak under the authority of viscount Robin. It says here when he was ten he awakened the element of fire, but not regular fire, black fire. Since it didn't seems to have any traits different from normal fire, it was just declared a small mutation".

A middle aged man with long back hair, a perfectly trimmed beard, a dark blue robe with a hood covering his muscular figure, his ocean eyes are filled with the wisdom of someone with a lot of responsibility on his shoulder, he placed down the scroll he was holding, picking up another one and on it is a portrait of Astro and other details. 

"This a bounty made by viscount Cromfield, who was the uncle of the late Alice Cromfield and the brother of baron Cromfield, the town lord, he is offering a reward of 50 gold coins". He placed the scroll down with a solemn expression. 

"What's the damage report?" He asked as he glanced at another person in the room, another powerful figure, in a simple white dress, with a white robe on top, with beautiful and silky long purple hair, her black phoenix eyes gleamed with the spark of a cunning schemer. 

"There's over fifteen casualties excluding the deaths of the mages and worriers we sent, there's over a hundred injured, and there was significant damage to buildings. It might not seem like much, but these were the lives of innocent civilians who have nothing to do with the world of mana, there is an unspoken rule that those chosen by mana may not interfere in the lives of the common folks".

Said Seline of the wick clan, she is undefeated with the bow and arrow, with the title of sky empress, clearly not someone to be trifled with. 

"We have already sent out our forces to capture these intruders, the problem now is the identity of the person with, we have no information of her at all, and according to the report someone saw her use lightning magic, someone of that talent should be a well known figure".

Said the Seline as another scroll appeared in her grasp, it literally materialised out of thin air, at least that's what it seems like. She opened this scroll and on it was a makeshift sketch of Enya. 

"It's possible that this person could be from the ancient clans who remained hidden or … she could be a figure from another empire, a spy, her existence is as important as this Astro cross, we need to bring both of them in now". She spoke as she closes the scroll as panned her face across the room. 

'Finally things are getting interesting'. She thought as she inwardly smiled.