184 - Quartermaster

Chapter Type: Conflict

Narrator: Wa Fenya

When investigating spies, don't do what Lord Xho did, barging in the front door and shouting: "There is a spy in this very building, and I can PROVE it!"

I may have seen the crossbows come up first, but it was Pharmacist Hwa who pulled the lord under the cover of a nearby desk.

There were over a dozen of them in the front of the building, but they weren't focused just on us.  The officer and secretary… I just wasn't fast enough. 

There is a fallacy that all chi cultivators use martial arts because our enhanced strength and speed are such that normal weapons cannot stand the stress.  Myself, I like using a thrusting sword.  Most days, I detest sharpening the thing.