Chapter 296: Southern Barbarian Beast Palace (1)
After wrapping up the matters at the Cheonghwa Merchant Guild, I returned to the Centipede Gate with a somewhat heavier pouch—only to find that the trio of wandering warriors was still lying neatly in a row before the gate.
Even though the door that had crushed them earlier had long since been cleared away.
I turned toward the gatekeeper, who was repeatedly opening and closing the newly attached door to “check whether it had been properly reattached.”
“I have something to ask.”
“Who...... ah! You’ve already returned, Master of the Gate. And Great Hero. As you instructed, once I adjusted only the connecting joints, it was fixed in no time!”
“Good. By the way, why are those still lying there like that?”
They might be wanderers, but they were Peak Stage martial artists—men who inspired both fear and admiration wherever they went.
Yet now they lay on the ground like mud-covered rags. Even passing children shook their heads in pity at the sight.
Unless all three shared some sort of peculiar taste, this made no sense.