As he began to read what was written, that guard's face was getting redder and redder with anger, as he understood why the soldier from before had just left it here and left.
'Bastards! They think they're too powerful to threaten us!' The guard thought angrily.
And while he was standing there, another man approached him with a horrible look on his face and said. "What is the problem? Why are you so angry?"
He then took a moment and made a gesture with his hand, waving the piece of paper. "Read this here. They just delivered this message."
"Oh?"
'Let me see what we have here...' He thought for a moment, then began to read aloud as the other guards who were in that place approached the two of them.
"Free the captive named Peter and deliver the Spring of Life in 1 hour, or we will destroy this base. If he is in any way crippled, be prepared for the consequences!"
Upon hearing this, all those men were thoroughly enraged, ready to draw their weapons and run after the person who had sent this message.
"But who in the world dares to send a message like this?"
"These wretches! Come on guys, let's inform Chief Jamie, we have to show that these insects cannot challenge the Chambers family!"
"That's right, let's take this to Chief Jamie!"
...
Meanwhile, inside a building on that base, Kevin was quietly sitting on a cultivate cushion while he meditated.
He had already fully recovered from the struggles he had gone through to get here and was now just waiting for his escort to arrive, for him to return to the Chambers family's headquarters.
'I think the escort group will arrive in less than a week…' He thought about it right after finishing his cultivation session and opening his eyes to observe his surroundings.
There were not many decorative items there. It was just a training place, where there was an ample empty space that looked like a circle and an area with cushions below a large spiritual array.
This was the base's training room, where the guards who stayed at this post could train and strengthen themselves.
Anyway, right after finishing his meditation, Kevin got up. He walked to the exit of this place, where a middle-aged woman was kneeling on the floor, silently waiting for him.
"Young master, your spa is ready for you to use." She informed him, looking down, not moving a single muscle.
He didn't even look at that woman as he walked past her into another room in that building, saying calmly. "Prepare those two female captives for me. I want the two to be in my bed after my dinner. You heard me?"
"Yes, young master. I will ensure that both are clean and presentable to you."
After that, that woman got up from where she was and went towards the place that the two women with Black talents, who Kevin had bought in the previous auction, were housed.
Meanwhile, Kevin was going to take a hot shower to take the tiredness out of his body that the routine training brought.
'Since I'm going to have to stay here a few more days, I'm going to taste these new 'flavors' at once…' He thought about it with a dirty look on his face, with his lips arching while he had a sharp look in his eyes.
...
In another part of that building, there was a rustic-looking room with some decorative furniture. At the same time, a muscular man sat on a sofa, reading a pile of documents.
He held the papers with one hand while using the other to occasionally remove the large cigar that was in his mouth, releasing a white smoke in that place, which had a rather distinct smell.
'It seems that Farmland has had some setbacks in the last year... Its exports fall 2.9%, it seems that the main cause was a drop in consumption on Stone Island...'
He then continued to read some more when he finally got to a part that seemed to be very important. 'Will the Kingdom of the Waves' royal family choose an heir to the throne in 2 years? How suddenly, why are they doing this so soon? Does...'
Pa! Pa!
As Jamie thought about the news he had just read, suddenly knocking sounds came from the door of that room, interrupting this Spiritual King's train of thought.
Shortly after that, two men entered that place in an agitated manner. At the same time, one of them carried a paper in his hands, already making a gesture to give it to Jamie.
Jamie then put the papers he was reading aside as he crossed his arms over his chest and inhaled a large amount of cigar smoke. "What are you doing? Why did you come here like this? Don't you know I'm busy?"
Upon hearing the reprimand that they were about to take, one of them immediately said. "Chief Jamie, read this letter! They're threatening our family. We can't let them do such a thing and get away with it!"
Hearing this and receiving the message that the soldier had just given to him, Jamie glanced sideways at that paper and muttered. "Threatened us? Now I'm curious..."
After a while, he finally read the letter with the message from Minos and the rest and understood what was going on.
"And then? Are we going to destroy those people?" One of the two men asked, already in a fighting stance, as if he was ready to do it the moment Jamie gave the order.
"No. You two are idiots for bothering with such nonsense." Jamie said, not bothering to look at those two guards.
"But boss, they said..."
"It doesn't matter what is written there. These people are after the Spring of Life, so they're trying to lure us off the base, where they could try their luck in a fight."
"This means?" one of them asked.
Jamie then completed saying. "This is bait. They don't have the ability to destroy the low-level grade-2 array, so they tried to threaten us to change our position."
"Ahh, we almost fell into the enemy's trap!" The more agitated of the two guards grunted, feeling ashamed.
However, the other man still thought there was more to this story and asked. "But boss Jamie, what about this guy mentioned in the message? Is he also a bait?"
Jamie then took the cigar out of his mouth, releasing a ball of white smoke into that room, and said. "Probably. Who would care to save a captive? Even the Hayes' imbeciles aren't stupid enough to go against slavery!"
The Hayes family could be seen as fair and against nefarious practices, and they actually acted in a way that, and for the most times, would be considered moral by the majority public. However, even the Hayes would not rescue a subordinate who had the misfortune of being enslaved.
It was problematic to deal with a system that had been working for so long and had many influential supporters. With that, if any event like this happened in the Hayes family, they would just turn their eyes in another direction, burying the subject in the past...
"Don't worry about it. At least for now, I doubt that we'll be attacked. The noble family closest to us is in Farmland, but we have alliances with the powers of that city. Thus, excluding this region, any other power would take at least a week to receive news and finally send reinforcements to where we are."
After that, the two guards returned to their activities, while Jamie went back to reading the news from the northern part of the Central Continent.
As a Spiritual King of a large family, he was responsible for being on top of the most critical issues in the region, which could undoubtedly influence the Chambers family's policy.
'In the Kingdom of the End, another group of ships was found filled with the bodies of Spiritual Emperors... Ahh, as always, the North Sea does not forgive anyone...'
...
And while Minos' warning was despised by the people of that base of the Chambers family, the young Stuart and the 90 or so people around that base were talking about the last details before finally starting the attack.
They had already shared what information they had about the strength of the individuals within that place surrounded by the red wall. At the same time, Minos had assured them that they wouldn't have to worry about the defensive barrier.
And with only a few minutes to go before the hour's deadline ended, the young Stuart broke away from the group. He activated his movement technique until he finally arrived at an isolated spot.
He had left those people around that place from before on the pretext that he needed them to be in position when he started.
The young Stuart wanted to be outside those cultivators' probe perimeter, where he could make sure he did not draw attention to his next move.
"I'm not feeling anyone else..." As he scanned his surroundings, the space around Minos vibrated as he suddenly disappeared from that place!