Chapter 442: Wait…wait!
Although he spoke with a slightly joking tone, to these people, Aldrian’s voice only brought a sense of impending doom, as if a nightmare had descended upon them.
Many of the senses that had locked onto this place vanished instantly, as if those who had been observing Aldrian hurriedly retracted their awareness to avoid being noticed. Some of the Emperor Stage and King Stage cultivators hidden in the shadows looked in Aldrian’s direction solemnly. A few even began to leave their establishments, attempting to distance themselves from him.
Others remained in their places, fearing that any movement might draw Aldrian’s attention. After all, given everything they had heard about this young man and what they had just witnessed, they worried that trying to escape would only make them stand out even more.
One of those who shared this mindset was the strongest cultivator in town. Inside a grand mansion on the northern side of the town, a man sat in his cultivation room, clearly agitated.
He was a middle-aged man at the middle Emperor Stage, someone who, under normal circumstances, should not have been in a place like this. He woke up from his cultivation state after feeling someone’s sense sweep over him. When he checked who it was and witnessed what Aldrian had done, he immediately withdrew his sense.
Sweat dripped from his forehead as shock gripped him.
"He is here?! How could this be?!" His mind was in turmoil.
"Shouldn’t he be in Caritas, dealing with the outbreak? Did he abandon the people of the Caritas? Does he not care about them?" he thought. Then, another possibility surfaced—one that sent a chill through his heart.
"Does he know where those subjects came from and came here? Does he know that we are the ones who sent them?"
"No, no, it’s impossible for him to have found out that we are responsible for the outbreak this quickly. It’s only been a few hours since the effects took hold, and by now, those subjects must already be dead. There’s no way that man could know that the ones who spread it are dead among the others."
He kept trying to think positively, but the thought still gnawed at him.