Maqued Min Alfisaq, City of Sin

Religion in most of the seven kingdoms is pretty touch and go, Those who believe hold fast to their faith and those who don't get drunk every evening. But even the most staunch unbelievers would tell you that 'Maqued Min Alfisaq' was a place dammed to eternal punishment and doomed on the day the gods decide to wipe out the disgusting stain from the face of the world.

And 'Maqued Min Alfisaq' is, depending on the visitor, the most vile pit of scum and foulness ever to be found, or a sweet land of freedom and opportunity. In the City, a Man could be having sex with a woman on the street in full view of the populace without anyone batting an eyelid, what's worse even, is that he could be doing so after driving a knife through her husbands back for money on the same street without raising an eyebrow

In this very dangerous City lies a rather Medium sized establishment where the Drink doesn't taste entirely like piss, and the food isn't actually rotten, and in that Establishment sits a Middle-Aged man in his late thirties to late fifties, well muscled and armed sat there drinking the drinks to be had and eating while watching the on-goings of the pub, sitting beside him is his most trusted friend and guard, Agaroth, and opposite him a Loyal Steward, Novar.

As they sat silently eating and drinking, the only waitress in the pub Merry, a young girl in her early twenties came over, she flashed them a warm smile which they returned, she then began to talk telling one story of things that had happened In the pub one after the other with barely a pause for breath, the three men were amused and didn't drive her away as they were familiar with her habit of gossiping to any ear that would listen, they had been coming to this pub whenever they passed the City for over twenty years now, and they had known the girl and her father for a long time, before she was born they had known her mother, when her mother died in childbirth they had helped her father grieve and settle down, and whenever they passed by the pub they would bring her gifts from wherever they had been, their Adventuring days are long gone now, but every now and again they come here to drink cheap ale, and they never forget to bring her gifts when they do.

But as she stood and regaled them with the of how she found out the traveling merchants wife had an extra piece between her legs, a group of mercenaries who had been causing trouble in the pub all night and were now drunk beyond reasoning stood up together and approached the table trying to surround it to intimidate them, a rather putrid one walked out and began to speak

"Oy Lassie, Didn't yer 'ear me Callin' ye?"

Merry annoyed by their tone and most likely trying to avoid the stench he was giving off ignored him and continued to talk with the three men who took a cue from her to do the same, this seemed to infuriate the man who once again said

"Dis' righ' 'ere iz yer las wornin' I sed, Az punishment, bring dat tight little ass 'ere so I con fuck it"

As he spoke, he and his troop were too drunk to notice that everyone else in the pub had cleared out when they were speaking, or maybe they had noticed and presumed it to be due to their fearsomeness, so as he spoke his men drew their weapons and he reached out to grab her from behind

When his hand was within reach of the girl, he found that it had been grabbed firmly by the middle aged man's hand while his other lifted his mug above his head to finish his drink, even as he slowly stood up and blocked their reach of the girl. Angered the drunk merc shouted

"Get outta da way grand pappy er u iz gonna get hurt"

But even as he said it, the middle aged man twisted his wrist breaking his hand and interrupting his words with his scream, before he could realise what was happening he found a hand behind his head holding it forward to receive the force and a fist breaking his jaw with a sickening crunch, the hand holding him left him at which point he fell with a thud to the ground completely knocked out.

The surrounding Mercs were all too drunk to realise exactly how much brute force it would require to make someone's jaw break with such an audible crunch and so they attacked him with their swords

The Middle aged man didn't seem worried in the least, he simply gave out a soft sigh and ducked under the blow that had been sent to his head, spinning around he caught the assailants arm and dislocated it from the elbow grabbing the dropped sword before it could fall out of the air he used the pommel to smash the head of the broken arm guy knocking him unconscious while simultaneously using the blade to knock back the three strikes that had been headed for his back, side stepping he dodged a blow from a great sword large enough to cleave him in half and raised two fingers in his empty hand at which point a small green rune flashed causing a large amount of force to cause the burly great sword user to fly back crashing through tables and through the wall out of the pub, but to anybody looking from the side it just seemed like he had sent him flying by tapping him with two fingers

The mercs still came madly in their attacks, but the middle aged man dodged everything with ease breaking hands, wrist and feet, it almost looked like he was dancing between them but for the screams and bone protruding from the skin of those who got it bad people could almost believe it was choreographed.

After Two minutes had passed of the original Fifteen mercenaries, not one of them was in any shape to move, while the middle aged man hadn't even broken a sweat, sitting down he rejoined his two companions who hadn't even stopped eating when he stood earlier, Merry seemed a little troubled but more at how she was going to get the place clean than for the idiots on the floor, although she did pity them a little, Agaroth continued eating saying nothing, but Novar without even looking up said

"Your Majesty, isn't it unbecoming of you to be involved with pub fights, what would the queen say."

Novar didn't even pause between his food to say it causing his words to sound a bit muffled, and although his tone seemed bothered, but his expression hadn't changed in the slightest causing his statement to seem more like a well rehearsed speech than an actual scolding, but yes, the middle aged man was the King, undisputed ruler of the

The middle aged man didn't respond and simply kept eating, to which Novar gave an actual sigh saying

"I understand your frustration sire and your irritation at not being able to find a cure, but you have to understand that if word gets out that the Kings is beating the sense out of his subjects, you will lose a lot of support"

The Middle aged man still stayed quiet, causing Novar to sigh again as he resumed eating

The three men were silent as they ate, and the girl resumed her story, the entire situation looking somewhat comical against the backdrop of people on the floor either groaning in pain or passed out from it.

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Ishtar POV

I've been living in North-Hold for the past eight years, ever since my parents died when I was ten I've had to take care of myself surviving in the streets, picking pockets, stealing what I could while dodging the guards and slavers. I got really good at moving without drawing attention, and sometimes for fun I would play pranks like stealing a some girls small-clothes and tuck the into the back pocket of their suitor leaving just enough for others to see it but not him, then i'd wait and watch what happens when he turns to leave after getting the girl all googly eyed about him and she sights her underwear in his pocket

Yesterday I saw three people walk into town, I know their lords though they seemed to be trying to hide it by wearing common clothes, The three of them are really weird, one's really tall, almost like a giant or an orc, I've heard orcs were tall, the second is a boy that seems younger than me, it seems to be his first time travelling cause he was turning his head trying to examine everything, the third one was the oldest, he kind of gives me the creeps, his eyes are closed cause he's probably blind but he walked on his own without using his staff to feel for the ground, and at one point before they went into their inn I could've sworn he turned and was looking straight at me even though I was hiding behind some crates on a balcony at least a hundred meters from them, when I tried to move his face seemed to follow me even with his eyes closed, I figured I hadn't eaten and was simply dreaming up things because he turned around and just walked into the inn, which like I thought was meant for nobles

I decided to keep watch and wait for them to come out tomorrow, maybe i'll be able to get enough from them to stay in an inn myself.

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Tyler POV

Yesterday, I saw someone following us, it was a young girl, she was pretty so I stared a bit, but she's not my type, and besides i'm old now, i'd just look like some pervert so its best to look away.

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Author's Anger Rant

Far Away, In a Continent to the East

First Face Slapper: "Fang Long you cripple although you can walk and work and is actually smarter than me just less violent, how dare you look at your own fiancé Ming-er with your cripple eyes, I will kill you although you are the love of her life and prove to her by killing you that I am the one she should marry even though I don't care about her own happiness a tiny bit"

MC: "Fang Shou you dare attack me just because I can't cultivate you want to steal my fiancé, I will go on a journey and activate my main characters aura awakening my past life memories causing various beauties and treasures to come to me, and when their owners or husbands come I will kill them all, becoming an even bigger douche bag than you then I will come back kill you take her, kill your family, slap faces in matters that could be resolved peacefully, encounter other douchebags such as myself, then transcend and ascend to the Douchebag world with everything I have robbed and stolen"

All the Female characters in the story: "Fang Long, I see you in a new light, come and take me even though I already have a fiancé who you killed, then kill my family for refusing to let you have me, then I will follow you around like a lost puppy while people describe my cold enchanting beauty and pale skin and long legs and black hair and etc"

Rinse and Repeat and you have a new xianxia