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Leaving the riverside, by the light of the moon, Yuri walked forward all the way, heading toward the small town not far away.
This town was Sika town.
Sika town had no city walls. Built on the very outer edge were ordinary people's houses, with almost zero external defensive structures.
Seeing this scene, Yuri subconsciously frowned.
"With this level of defense, if they encounter war, bandit raids, or monster invasions, it would easily cause casualties..."
"It seems this town's mayor is quite incompetent, not even as capable as me."
If it were several years ago when he was still a treasure hunter, Yuri would not have paid much attention to things like "city wall defenses."
However, ever since he joined Fairy Tail and stayed by Weston's side, seeing and hearing about Weston's work every day, he had naturally learned more things over time.
Like now, just in the short time it took to walk from the wilderness into the town, he had already discovered five or six places around the town that were improperly constructed and posed safety hazards.
After silently noting the safety issues before him, Yuri continued deeper, exploring this unfamiliar town.
"Strange, where exactly did Weston throw me?"
"Is there a town like this near Magnolia?"
At this time, the night was already deep. Yuri walked along the lonely and chilly streets, the moonlight stretching his shadow long, very long.
Suddenly, footsteps sounded.
Several figures emerged from a dark alley and surrounded him.
"Hmm??" Yuri immediately became alert.
There were more than ten people in total. From their flashy hair, tattoos, and clothing, it was obvious they were local thugs.
Each of them carried weapons like small knives and iron clubs, and their faces bore malicious smiles, like wolves and tigers seeing a lamb deliver itself to their door.
"What do you want?" Yuri frowned and asked coldly.
The knife-wielding thug leader carefully examined Yuri for several seconds, as if recognizing him, his face showing both surprise and delight.
"Kid, who would've thought you'd still dare to come back?!"
"Looks like that beating you took during the day didn't teach you a lesson..."
What were they talking about?
What "that beating during the day," what "teaching a lesson"?
From what he said, these people had beaten him up during the day?
Yuri blinked, his face full of confusion.
No one understood his physical condition better than Yuri himself.
There were no signs of him having fought with anyone on his body!
So...
"You've got the wrong person, right?"
"I don't know you!"
The thug leader was stunned upon hearing this and looked suspiciously at his underlings. "Hey, I didn't recognize the wrong guy, did I?"
The thug underling hurriedly replied, "Boss, you didn't drink much tonight. Of course you wouldn't recognize the wrong person!"
The thug leader felt reassured.
Since he hadn't recognized the wrong person, then the problem must be with the other party!
Could it be that they hit this guy too hard during the day and knocked him stupid?
Looking at Yuri in front of him, the thug leader began to think: 'The stuff we stripped off this kid today, when resold on the black market, brought in enough money for us to live it up for three months. That means this kid must be from a rich family!'
'If we tie him up and interrogate him about his background, maybe we can extort a huge sum of money!'
Thinking of this, the thug leader's eyes immediately gleamed with greed. "Do it. Take him back!"
"Yes!!"×N
Although the group of thugs didn't know their boss's plan, as underlings, they always had to obey the boss's orders.
So they answered in unison and stepped toward Yuri.
This group of thugs were exactly the people Edolas-Yuri had mentioned, the ones he had had a conflict with.
However, the situation back then was clearly different from what Edolas-Yuri had described—
He hadn't won at all. Instead, he had been beaten up, and all his valuable belongings had been forcibly taken away.
The reason he told Weston and the others that "he won" was purely to save face.
"What exactly do these guys want..."
Yuri scratched his head. "I'm saying, can we not fight first? I have something I want to ask you."
Seeing Yuri call for a stop, everyone thought he was scared, and they all let out "heh heh heh" laughs. "If you've got questions, you can ask them after you come back with us!!"
With that, wooden clubs, iron rods, knives, and fists were all swung at once.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
As the weapons came down, Yuri relied on his agility to dodge them one by one.
"A bunch of annoying guys..."
"But there's one thing you said right."
"If there are questions, asking them after I beat you all up is the same!"
Missing his appointment with Rita had already put Yuri in a bad mood.
Now he was in a completely unfamiliar place, inexplicably facing a group of ill-intentioned people. His mood could be said to be terrible to the extreme.
Since these thugs insisted on rushing toward the muzzle of the gun, then he wouldn't be polite.
"When it comes to fighting, I won't lose!"
Just as Yuri rolled up his sleeves, clenched his fists, and prepared to go all out, he suddenly sensed something was wrong.
His magic couldn't be used!
"What's going on?"
In his moment of distraction, the enemy's fist had already arrived.
Yuri couldn't react in time. His stomach took a heavy punch, followed immediately by his neck, shoulder, right leg, and left shoulder.
"Damn it..."
"That hurts!"
"Don't think that just because you've sealed my magic you can toy with me at will!"
"I'm not easy to deal with!!"
Just as Yuri was about to counterattack, a loud shout came from afar.
"What are you doing?!"
Immediately after, the sound of "da da da" footsteps approached.
Yuri looked up and saw a middle-aged man with a thick beard rushing over, holding a weapon that looked like a spiked club.
This middle-aged uncle was quite capable, and the weapon in his hand was even more bizarre. In less than a minute, he knocked more than ten thugs to the ground, with cries of "ow ow" rising one after another across the entire street.
Aside from being a bit dirty and disheveled, he didn't seem to have suffered many injuries.
"Young man, are you okay?"
"Uh... I'm fine."
Although he had indeed taken a few hits just now, to Yuri, who often fought with companions in the guild, those punches were nothing, not even as heavy as one of Weston's "casual punches."
However...
Yuri looked at his right hand, clenched his fist, and once again tried to mobilize his magic, but there was still no response.
It wasn't a momentary mistake. He really couldn't use magic!
What on earth was going on?
"There's no magic-sealing stone on me either..."
After frowning and thinking deeply on the spot for several seconds, Yuri suddenly widened his eyes, lightly thumped his right fist into his left palm, looking as if he had suddenly understood everything.
"I get it!"
"Since Weston was the one who threw me here, then he must also have used some special method to seal my magic!"
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