I Can Contract Beauties-Chapter 207: Impartial Grand Patriarch Zuko, Truth

The aggrieved shout of Cardino echoed in the surroundings.

Everyone’s gaze was attracted towards him. Even the Grand Patriarch looked at him with confusion in his eyes.

’Who is this person?’ He thought to himself upon seeing his ridiculous reaction.

It must be noted that the Grand Patriarch has been in seclusion for dozens of years already.

Not to mention him, he did not even know the name of the previous City Lord of Blazing City before Cardino.

His reaction was normal as he did not think that a City Lord position was that important.

It was merely an empty title. Nothing more, and nothing less.

However, seeing the intense red hair of the party, and how he could be here, he realized that he was probably an important person in the current Red Family.

The Grand Patriarch Zuko looked at Damian, as if asking for an explanation.

Realizing that his grandfather did not know Cardino’s identity, Damian immediately explained the matter to him hurriedly.

Hearing that he needed to be introduce, Cardino’s cheeks felt hot from shame.

Grand Patriarch Zuko looked at Cardino and as if he looked at something horrible. He seemed to recall someone who was always with Damian before. Was this City Lord actually that same kid back then?

He was taken aback before he asked, "Brat, Cardino. What do you mean? If you wrongly blamed this elder, don’t blame me for being impolite either."

As Grand Patriarch Zuko only managed to observe the very start of the battle, he truly did not know the real situation here.

In his opinion, treating this as a normal spar was indeed doable.

Seeing Elder Journey’s strength, he did not believe that the other four elders of the Red Family would still be standing in front of him if this was a real fight.

Hence, he did not doubt Elder Journey’s words earlier when he stated that it was just a casual spar.

However, he indeed saw the corpses of a few people in the distance, hence the reason why he was also willing to listen to Cardino’s explanation.

Meanwhile, Cardino immediately put up a troubled expression the moment he heard Grand Patriarch Zuko’s words.

He did not waste another breath as he immediately explained the ’whole’ situation to the Grand Patriarch.

At the same time, he emphasizes the words ’ruthless’, ’cruel murderer’, and ’innocent people’ a few times to heighten Miguel’s crime.

From his words, Elder Journey acted on his own and killed innocent people inside the city. He disregarded the lives of the innocent and ignored the Blazing City, and the Red Family’s rules, hence, he could be considered a traitor.

"Grand Patriarch, please be impartial and give justice for the innocent soul he casually took!" Cardino kowtowed to the ground directly. He pressed his forehead to the ground and prostrated himself in front of the Grand Patriarch.

His actions made a lot of people speechless. Though, some of them could understand his plea for help.

Elder Journey was simply too strong.

The back-up Cardino called over could actually not suppress him.

With the arrival of another strong back-up, who would not cozy up and let this strong back-up deal with him?

The Grand Patriarch, was after all the Grand Patriarch.

No matter how strong Elder Journey was, could he be stronger than the Grand Patriarch who was rumored to have lived for over three centuries?

Of course, not!

Hearing his words, Grand Patriarch Zuko fell into a deep thought.

Although he guessed that Cardino was slightly exaggerating matters, he also believed that killing indiscriminately, especially inside a peaceful city, should not be tolerated. In fact, it was him who set up this rule a few years ago.

Aside from special occasions, it was strictly prohibited to kill someone inside the Blazing City.

Knowing that the rule he set up was broken, Grand Patriarch did not have a good feeling.

Still, as known by everyone else, Grand Patriarch Zuko was not someone unreliable and rash.

He knew better to ask for the opinion of the opposite sides.

Now that he already heard Cardino’s side, he looked at Elder Journey and spoke," Elder Journey, is this true?"

Although his tone carried a hint of inquisition, his words still carried a hint of respect towards Elder Journey, surprising everyone present.

One must note that the family head of the Red Family and the current City Lord were directly called snotty brat and brat respectively earlier.

Seeing him act this way, most of the people realized that Elder Journey was indeed not that simple.

For the Grand Patriarch to speak to him that way, it seems that Elder Journey was stronger than they thought and guessed.

They had already tried to overestimate his abilities, however, it seems that it wasn’t enough?

At the thought of this, the people around, especially those from the other families felt that the decision of not provoking this monster was indeed the right choice.

After all, almost all who knew of Grand Patriarch Zuko also know of his Innate Skill.

An Innate Skill that could tell the strength of his opponent.

Although this was a probing skill, it was not a vision type of skill. According to the public information, this was a skill that relied on his feeling, and not with his real observations.

Due to this, Miguel also did not realize that the strength of his two beasts were already seen through by the other party.

As for him, how could the other party gauge his strength if he was not fluctuating any?

With his deliberate control and his Innate Skill, it even seemed like he was a normal person right now.

But the more he was like this, the more convinced Zuko was that Elder Journey was very strong.

After all, how could a mortal contract two Level 5 Gold Grade Beasts? And they were Gold Grade Beasts with humanoid appearance.

Unlike the others, he was not as ignorant when it came to high-level knowledge.

He knew that beasts who had a humanoid forms were more intelligent and fierce than other beasts of the same level and grade.

Grand Patriarch Zuko looked at Elder Journey patiently, waiting for his explanation.

If Cardino’s words were proven true, then Grand Patriarch Zuko would immediately apprehend Elder Journey himself and send him to the prison dungeon to atone for his sins.

Upon hearing his question, Miguel went silent for a second before answering with great confidence.

"It was indeed I, who killed those people over."

He paused for a moment and looked Cardino with a smile on his face before he deliberately raised his voice for everyone to hear, "However, who said that they were innocent people?"

"Have you verified it? How do you know that they are innocent?"

From the start, Miguel was already confident in escaping the encirclement of the law enforcement of Blazing City.

Not to mention that they were pretty lax, Miguel also knew that the rules and laws of this city had a lot of loopholes that he could exploit.

Of course, the higher-ups of Blazing City obviously knew of the loopholes present. However, since no one bothered to use them anyway, they also did not bother to change them either. After all, in the Blazing City, who would dare offended the Red Family?

The only reason why he prolonged the confrontation earlier was mainly due to the fact that he wanted to fight and see the strength of the other elders of the Red Family.

After experiencing the battle, though, Miguel only felt that they were merely so, so.

If the others heard his evaluation, they would surely die of anger and embarrassment.

His words struck the soul of everyone present.

That’s right. How could they be sure that the murdered people were actually innocent people?

Realizing that they had been led astray by Cardino’s one sided truth, they could not help but curse the city lord in their heart in secret.

As for Cardino, Damian, Domen and the guards, they immediately realized that something was wrong.

In the next moment Miguel revealed an even more shocking piece of information, "Those people are assassins. They kill indiscriminately in exchange for money. Tell me, were the innocent people?"

"Besides, they had already attacked and tried to kill me twice, how could I not retaliate? As I said earlier, these are just my casual revenge."

"City Lord, aren’t you happy? I eliminated a hidden threat in the Blazing City. Instead of blaming, shouldn’t you thank me, instead?"

His words carried provocation and insults directed towards Cardino.

Cardino felt as if multiple nails were pinned all over his body at this moment.

The gazes he received from everyone was very uncomfortable.

While Miguel was talking, Damian already sent one of his subordinates to very the matter.

After a moment, that person checked the body of the nearest corpse.

He wiped the clown’s makeup and then the gloves on their hands.

Seeing the familiar and notorious snake tattoo on the back of their hand, everyone instantly realized that Elder Journey’s words seemed to be the truth.

The guards helped the person remove the gloves.

After a while everyone confirmed that the identity of the corpses were truly that of assassins.

Moreover, this wasn’t just simply a small assassin group, but the most notorious and biggest assassin group in Blazing City.

The Dark Snake Assassins!

When the truth was revealed, gasps of shock immediately echoed in the surroundings.

Even those hiding in the dark felt that this was unprecedented.

"So City Lord, do you still think that what I did was killing the innocent?"