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With a creak, the timid rat-people pushed open the great door, and a sea of faces flooded into their field of vision, causing them instinctively to retreat a few steps before hiding back in the shadows inside the house.

Gilder adjusted his clothes and stepped over the threshold, his gaze slowly sweeping around before he asked in a deep voice, "What has happened?"

"We want to see the lord!"

"Yes! We want to see the lord!"

Looking at the group of old soldiers causing the commotion, Gilder frowned and asked, "Why do you seek the lord if there is no issue?"

"No issue?" An old soldier sneered sharply, "We are here to demand justice from the lord!"

"Justice? What justice? Tell me what's the matter, and if I can't solve it, then I'll report it to the lord."