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Fifteen years later.
Harmony Province, Bravefell Town, the Four Seas Escort Agency.
Flags fluttered overhead. In the training yard, martial artists in snug uniforms grunted as they practiced their strikes, fists cutting through the air with sharp whooshes.
In the back courtyard's mess hall, racks of beast meat hung in rows. A cook was hacking at a fresh slab, tossing chunks into a boiling pot.
For martial artists, building the body required copious amounts of meat.
To keep the escort agency running and its men strong, there was always plenty to go around.
But the real prize, the flesh of genuine demonic beasts, whispered about in tales, wasn’t for the common fighters. That was reserved for the chief escort leader and the two senior heads above him.
In the inner yard, servants bustled about, feeding horses, scrubbing basins, polishing window frames. Between chores, some whispered excitedly about a major job coming up next month.
The north’s top merchant guild, the Red Dragon Trading Company, had put in a high-paying order. They needed a batch of valuable cargo transported south to the Cloud Capital. The pay was generous, and the job had everyone at the Four Seas Escort Agency buzzing. It wasn’t just a lucrative job. It was a gateway to a powerful client.
“If we pull this off, the Four Seas Escort Agency will finally make a name for itself in Harmony Province,” one of the servants said, hanging up a polished saddle and brushing a fallen...
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