At this point, the two women from the Miller family were standing atop a spirit beast, right in the middle of the passageway to enter the territory protected by the wall.
Abby was wearing a blue dress, which matched her long flowing hair, and with a worried expression on her face. As for Eda, she was wearing female armor, which resembled a short dress. Eda was on guard and ready to act at any moment, being solemn about this situation.
And it was not for less. Around them, there were two gates on each side, one leading into the city and the other through which they had passed. But at that moment, both gates were already closed!
As for the sides, this was the wall's interior, so there was not much space left. There was only the area between the gates, where people and spiritual beasts could pass. Other than that, there were two buildings on each side, with a large guardhouse and an immigration building.
At least that was the name on one of those buildings that were painted on the surfaces.
This was the typical structure of the four entrances of the Dry City, where the strongest soldiers of the Black Plain Army were protecting the city's gates in the guardhouse. In contrast, other weaker soldiers took care of the administrative process of these places as the immigration issues.
Anyway, there were stairs on the side of the administrative building, while on the other side, in the guardhouse, there were many balconies, from which several Spiritual Generals were in strategic positions.
In addition, there was a group surrounding them from behind, where was the gate they had passed, and another in the front, to the entrance that gave access to the city.
Thirty people surrounded these two women, each wearing similar uniforms, already holding their spiritual weapons in their hands!
At that point, a middle-aged man with gray hair was standing in front of the two women, wearing an overcoat.
This was responsible for that entry, Walter, a level 43 Sergeant!
There weren't many levels 43 soldiers today in the city, so these people at this level were working almost exclusively as the heads of city entrances. After all, the wall was the first defense of the Minos' territory, having to be able to stop most threats to this town!
After saying those words, Walter looked closely at the two women, trying to see if he recognized the power behind them. However, before reaching any conclusions, Abby started to speak.
"My name is Abby Miller, and I'm here to see Minos."
"Miller?" Some soldiers commented in a low voice. 'The Miller family is a potential enemy of the Black Plain!' Many of them thought about it.
After all, they all had the information that the noble families of the Brown Kingdom were all potential enemies of the Black Plain. And that was not an exaggeration. If someone of sufficient importance knew about this place, it would be too quick until real troops came, or even an invasion happened in the Dry City.
The truth is that few people in this world didn't seize an opportunity to use force against the weakest. If a person got a valuable treasure on his own merit, it could be considered more of a curse than luck!
At least that was the truth if other people knew about it.
And in this case, it would be impossible for just one person to keep the property on something as valuable as the current Black Plain was!
Therefore, any family with power within the Brown Kingdom could be considered a threat to Minos!
A few seconds passed, and all the soldiers in this place were even tenser. It looked like they had a tough fight ahead of them...
As for the two women, Eda was very concerned at the moment. She had many years of experience and could feel that things would not be peaceful in this place. The expression of each of these soldiers was cautious, and one of them could attack at any moment.
'Who are these people? Why are they in the Dry City?' Eda wondered, trying to figure out what power could send all that strength to this place.
At this point, Abby looked at the tense people around her and also at her bodyguard, who had a trickle of sweat running down her forehead due to the tension.
She then said, with some nervousness in her voice. "Why are you treating us like enemies? Minos is my friend, and he is the one who invited me to come here!"
"Friend?" Walter exclaimed in a low voice.
None of them were close enough to the young Stuart to know about these details of his private life. Minos had been unconscious for six years, so there were not many records about him for these soldiers.
Aside from the attack on Minos' father, these soldiers did not know of the time when he was in the Spiritual Academy. Back then, he was just a child, and nothing relevant to the Black Plain had happened, so they had no way of knowing if Abby was really a friend or an enemy.
"If you are friends with the young master, order your bodyguard to surrender. We will not hurt you, but you will be arrested until this is resolved." Walter said firmly.
He couldn't just take Abby's word. She could be an enemy trying to infiltrate Minos' territory to steal information about this place!
On the other hand, if she were really a friend of Minos, they couldn't just hurt or kill her. In this case, the only alternative was for them to arrest these women until the information was checked.
"Miss Abby, we are not going to do that! If we surrender, we will be completely vulnerable!" Eda exclaimed, trying to convince Minos' friend not to do this.
Abby frowned, trying to come up with the best decision possible. She then asked. "How do I know you guys are Minos's subordinates? If we surrender and you are just a group of bandits, we would be finished."
She sighed and then continued. "Why don't you tell Minos that I'm here? He will undoubtedly authorize my entry into the city."
Walter then replied. "The young master is not available at the moment."
"Is not? And who is in charge of the city?"
Upon hearing this, Walter just remained silent for a while, pondering if there was a problem if he talked about it. He then brought one of his hands to his face, massaging his chin, as he pondered.
"Butler Dillian is in charge of the Dry City right now." He said it calmly. Those who knew Minos certainly knew about Dillian, so it wouldn't make a difference whether Walter confirmed it or not.
This was just the expected thing. After all, Dillian was a person of absolute confidence for Minos, having accompanied him even after the young Stuart was unconscious for six years, after the death of general Albert.
So, to stay in charge of the city in the absence of Minos would be something that anyone who knew him would think.
And finally, hearing the confirmation that Dillian was in this place, Abby felt a little relieved. 'It seems that they are, in fact, Minos' subordinates...'
She then said. " Sister Eda, let's surrender."
"What? Miss Abby, reconsider this! I fear that this is not a good idea!" Eda looked into Abby's eyes and said this apprehensively.
"No, we are going to trust that. We are already surrounded anyway. We are not going to make things worse for us!"
And while they were talking about it, the help previously requested by the soldiers at this checkpoint has finally arrived!
There were 15 more Spiritual Generals in the group, including 40 other levels 39 cultivators.
But when they arrived at the scene, the reinforcement group found a situation very different from what they expected. Instead of a battle, with several injured, people were just staring at each other...
"Sergeant Walter, what's going on?" Sergeant Pyke, who was with the support group, asked dubiously.
At the same time, as Walter headed towards Pyke, Eda and Abby handed their weapons and spatial rings to the soldiers who were there while they were handcuffed by a silver necklace placed around their necks.
This was a high-level grade-1 spiritual array that could seal a cultivator's spiritual cultivation below the Spiritual King stage.
Such an item was very efficient since a cultivator without spiritual energy became very weak and certainly could not break that restriction with his/her own physical strength.
In fact, even a cultivator in the 6th stage of cultivation would have his spiritual energy completely sealed by this array. However, given the physical strength of an individual of this level, breaking this array was not a difficult job...
And that array had an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that even though it is only a grade-1 array, it could affect cultivators up to level 49!
However, it would be essential for the cultivators to surrender in order to use it. Otherwise, it would be proactively impossible to activate it correctly!
So, although this array has an incredible effect, it was not useful in battles and could only be used on occasions when one side surrendered to the other.
Anyway, Walter finally said. "Sergeant Pyke, these two came from the Miller family. The girl, Abby, surrendered to us, claiming to be friends with the young master."