"It's your resident prince speaking!"
Even with Theo's loud shout, the crowd would never react as swiftly as a lone man.
Which is why, just like there were some who stopped and turned right away, there were those who had to notice the entire crowd had stopped to pay attention themselves.
And in that time, Theo turned back to Narmidor.
"People have tried over and over again to conquer others by violent means," Theo started, only to immediately shrug his shoulders, "and I will show you how much easier it is to just buy everyone instead."
Taking a breath, Theo turned back to the crowd.
To say that most of the sect members were present… would be a gross overestimation.
Out of the cultivators, maybe a third of them were at the scene, with the rest either away on their assignments or back at the deeper part of the sect, away from all the commotion.
But when it came to the mortals, the many workers that the sect employed to keep its city running…
