The Capital of Arsia [C15]

3 Days of walk later. At 0.5 Kilometers of distance from the walls of the City, could be seen walking 10 armored men and a child, returning from a far journey.

"We are finally back!" The voice of a child could be heard, together with his shining eyes looking toward the walls, the walls are as high as 200 meters, and seemingly as thick as more than 30 meters; Even if they are that big sized, they still cover all around the Capital, most likely they got constructed by cultivators and made to stop other cultivators, which could explain the tremendous size.

In front of them was a long line made of travelers, merchants, and adventurers, returning toward the City, waiting for the inspection from the guards. Naturally as one of the most influential families of the Capital, the Shu Family, Shu Himo and the elite members did not need to wait and directly went toward the gates, ignoring the annoyed look from the people waiting outside.

"Halt! Please show your Identities!" Said a guard toward them, trying to be respectful not knowing who they are.

"We are from the Shu Family, here is our Seal." Showing the Seal from the Shu Family, the guard got covered in cold sweat for fear that he was being disrespectful, but once seeing that they did not care he sighed in relief.

"You can pass, sorry for my rudeness." Having the confirm, they all proceeded to walk into the city, but none noticed the disdainful gaze of the guard toward Shu Himo, thinking he got saved by his family from the kidnappers since the news of the kidnap was actually public domain, not that Shu Himo would have cared anyway, after all, the worse people believe him to be, the bigger the faceslap will be later.

The outer part of the Capital is divided into 4 parts: in the north there is the market, where Shu Himo and the elites are now, in the east there are the houses of the commoners, in the south is the zone with various schools, from schools for commoners to schools for nobles, but the difference between each other is apparent just by looking from the distance, while in the west there is the zone of the slum, where it can be found the black market, an extremely lawless place where even nobles could be killed easily.

The inner part is divided from the outer part with another wall of the same size as the one Shu Himi just passed, this area is the zone where nobles live.

Lastly, in the center, separated this time by a smaller wall there is the Royal Palace where the Royal family of Arsia lives.

As Shu Himo was now in the market zone, he decided to stroll around a bit before returning to his family's mansion, to see the average quality of weapons and artifacts, the elites had no objections as they knew that their young master never left the noble zone before and believed that this would be a good chance to see the rest of the capital.

Noticing he did not have any money with him, he asked the elites "Do you have any money? I will return them once we come back." Hains did not mind but he wanted to know at least what he was going to buy "I have some but, what is Young Master going to buy?" the answer left him shocked: "Nothing special, just a Storage Ring."

"Ju-ju-just a Storage Ring? Even if I gave 10 more times the money it would still not be enough to buy a low-grade one!"

Shu Himo was troubled, he did not think something such as a Storage Ring was that pricey! After all, if he did not have a Storage Ring, how could he use his Scythe without exposing the existence of his System Storage? But even if he was troubled he would not show it toward others.

"No problem then, let's just look around and not buy anything then."

Said that they proceeded to walk toward where the market is more lively, in here there are many peoples going back and forth, looking for lower prices or rare artifacts and weapons; Each shop had multiple decorations to attract costumers, making the place inviting for the eyes. Also if anyone dared to steal something in this area, the guards would immediately attack and execute him, so there is no real risk of theft unless a high-level cultivator were to come, but a high-level cultivator would not even watch the things exposed here, much less try to steal them.

After passing through multiple shops Shu Himo decided to call it a day and return toward the Mansion of the Shu Family, so they proceeded to go through the Noble-gate where to pass is needed a Seal from a noble family and then went immediately toward their Mansion.

The expectation of Shu Himo would be of a tranquil place where he would meet again his family but the reality was different: The moment he walked into the courtyard he immediately saw a woman flying toward him, ready to kick toward his face. The woman was Shu Himo's mother, who usually is outside the Kingdom for business trips in search of cultivation techniques. And he then saw his father, looking somewhat gloomy after being reprimanded by his wife for being way too soft in raising Shu Himo leading toward him being kidnapped, his big brother, with his usual cold look which seemed even more cold today, almost disdainful, and lastly, his little sister that was happy of the return of Shu Himo.

While the expectation of Shu Himo got completely betrayed, the expectation of his mother also got betrayed who thought to hit him easily in the face, only to being easily dodged by a sidestep from Shu Himo.

And this is the first meeting of the new Shu Himo and his family.