New Life?

South Star Planet, Azure Sky Continent, Fang Empire, Sou- Xiao City(5)

The sun rising on the horizon, just like a normal day in this bustling city.

The guards, woke up early, to shift their post, in rotation from the previous night shift.

Looking at the tall 50-meter granite wall, filled with a sense of fortitude and security, guards patrolling above it, vigilant of their surroundings.

In this vast city ranging 500 kilometers in diameter, the residence within it, slowly wakes up to perform their daily business.

The structure, was like the village, except grander and wealthier.

In comparison the villages' market, a bustling town in the middle filled with shops, made from bricks, with at least 2 stories at minimum.

Manors and courtyards could be located throughout the city, inns, houses, mansions, along with the paved road from east to west, and north to south gates, there were numerous alleys and even canals underneath it.

This just shows the resources and power of a typical rank 5 cities. Xiao City.

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Xiao City was named after Xiao Bai, the current City Lord. The City will be named accordingly by the Current City Lords Surname.

The selection process was fashioned through a duel, whether the city lord is capable or not, nobody knows, as long as his strength is above King Realm(6) he or she can usurp the current city lord, and be the city lord him/herself.

Xiao Bai, challenged the previous city lord, Zhao Weiqing, and won, fortunately for him, Zhao Weiqing was only at the Low King Realm at that time, while Xiao Bao was at the Peak King Realm.

The Zhao Clan has always been the ruler of Xiao City, for centuries, The Zhao Clan's Headquarters is located at the west side of the City, due to the defeat of Zhao Weiqing, also the current clan master, the once arrogant Zhao Clan, became silent and feeble.

Since 10 years later, the Xiao City, showed signs of improvements, the army became stronger, the economy wealthier, and many local forces favored the current Xiao City Lord.

One of these forces is the Heavenly Star Academy, which is located in the north, alongside Current City Lords Manor. There is also the Meng clan, which is known for their proficiency in alchemy, although the strongest person in their clan is only at the Low King Realm(6), the rallying forces of these alchemists are terrifying.

These four forces offer balance, and harmony in the Xiao City, although some conflicts arise, that is only caused by the younger generation, to this date no accidents occurred which requires the movement of the older generation, so through them, the Xiao City went to a decade of peace and prosperity.

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Xiao City, City Lords Manor, 2nd Floor Bedroom

In a comfy and fluffy bed, a 10-year-old boy, lying there sleeping comfortably, Attractive face, with black hair, and his smooth and adorable skin, seemingly describing his innocence and childishness.

Another 10-year-old girl can be seen, sneakily crawling towards the bed, watching the attractive creature while cupping her face, laying beside him.

A beautiful, and cute girl, red scarlet hair, tied up into a ponytail, wearing a green robe with a Xiao Character with ornaments designed behind it.

Observing the 10-year-old kid sleeping, the girl suddenly shouted

"Fire!! Fire!!"

The sleeping boy, hearing the scream sat up hastily, looking around in a panic, seeing the attractive face turning ordinary, the girl mounted on the boy while dragging his shoulders forward and backward.

"Hey~ hey~ can you teach me that magic trick?" eyes sparkling with curiosity "hey~ Hey~" she eagerly asked.

The boy finally noticed the cute and adorable, girl on top of him, looking into her eyes, he asked "w-who are you?" looking at his surroundings he asked again "where am I?".

Eyes rims reddening, he continued "where's my mama?" seeing the girl on top of him moved

*Slap!

"Stop crying already, you crybaby!" she hollered "C'mon~ C'mon teach me that magic trick!" slapping the boy's face, the girl continued her harassment.

The boy being slapped woke up from his depression, looking at the pestering girl, he finally cried with a red imprint on his face.

"Whaaaa~~" rubbing his eyes he cried "Whaaaa~~"

This time he cried not because of the loss of his village, but because of being slapped suddenly.

Seeing the boy frowned, the girl frowned "Ugh! You Cry Baby! Stop CRYING!" panic slowly raised inside her, her eyes also began to redden then she along with the boy began to cry.

"Whaaaa~~ Whaaa~~ Whaaa~~"

As if competing whose louder they continued shrieking

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After a while, their breaths gave out and they slowly began to calm down.

Hurried footsteps can be heard running in the corridor when the source finally arrived, they saw a beautiful woman standing at the door, having scarlet hair the same as the girl, also wearing a robe with beautiful ornaments, looking at them both, worriedly "What happened? Xiao Rou!? What did you do to our guest!?" As if knowing that her daughter caused this incident he berated her.

She went closer, sat beside the bed, and comforted the duo.

'Oh heavens, one is already difficult yet, that stupid husband of mine added one!' thinking of her sufferings she lamented.

The duo being in her embrace, finally calmed down.

The first to break the silence was the girl

"Hey~ Hey~ what's your name?" she asked the boy

"Ye shie" the boy timidly answered.

"I'm Xiao Rou" the girl smilingly replied, showing her pearly white teeth, "Ye shie?" she asked

"Yes?" Ye Shie shyly replied

"Can you teach me about that magic trick?!" Xiao Rou asked again... eagerly.