Storm Wolf recently suppressed Iguana Fang, causing the Iguana Fang mercenary group to almost disband.

  Even if they decide to take revenge, they firmly believe that they are on the side of justice.

  In addition, there is an unwritten rule among mercenaries: as long as they do not cause too much damage, such as causing a large number of casualties or harming civilians and urban facilities, managers such as the city guards and the mercenary guild usually do not interfere too much.

  Talking about this matter, we have to mention the situation in Kolan City, and even the entire Kolan State, Zilago State, and even the entire Star Continent.

  After the "Dark Apocalypse" disaster more than 1,700 years ago, the former countries and regimes were destroyed, and society returned to the primitive clan era, restarting the long road of civilization evolution.

  After the clan era, tribal era, chiefdom era, city-state era and federal era, which were full of darkness and blood, the countries and regimes on the Star Continent gradually revived civilization.

  However, the recovery of civilization takes time.

  Today, the Star Continent has just transitioned from the Federation Era and still retains many characteristics of the City-State Era.

  For example, the large city clusters that have risen on the ruins of the old era on the seven continents are usually led by the city lords with the greatest local power, assisted by some influential clan leaders, tribal chiefs and heads of professional guilds, who together form the City-State Council to manage the city and the surrounding population gathering places.

  However, the City-State Council is essentially only used to distribute benefits and mediate conflicts.

  This management method will inevitably lead to conflicts between forces due to disputes over interests and power.

  Not to mention the vast areas separated by nature like the seven continents, even in the same continent, the same county, or even between cities in the same country, there are often endless fights over interests.

  In general, in city-state politics, whichever force is more powerful has the greatest say.

  Cities, as the smallest unit in the city-state political system, whether they are large buildings called "cities", small buildings called "towns", or small villages that are only a little bit big, their management is actually a microcosm of the current city-state politics.

  Take the city of Kolan as an example. Since Kolan has a very important magic school, Komagic University, there is no city lord or king here like other places.

  However, there is still an institution to manage the city, namely the Civil Affairs Council.

  The Civil Affairs Council is composed of three management institutions, the "House of Lords, the Middle House, and the House of Commons", and its members are called "Members".

  Most of these members are appointed by large families, professional guilds and other forces in the Kolan State where Kolan City is located.

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  Among them, the "House of Lords", also known as the "Senate", all have members from the most powerful forces.

  The "Middle House", also known as the "House of Representatives", has members from medium-sized forces and managers of surrounding towns and villages.

  The "House of Commons", also known as the "House of People", has members from small forces, as well as farmers, small businessmen, and ordinary people with reputations.

  Such a power structure seems reasonable, but in fact it is just a means for major forces and institutions to gain benefits.

  It is conceivable that there must be many dark calculations, intrigues and exchanges of interests.

  In such a management organization, how perfect can we expect the legal rules and urban security?

  In such a three-level management organization, everyone is fighting for interests and power, so it is inevitable that some illegal forces and violent gangs will breed.

  They may control a street or an industry, lurking in the dark corners of the city.

  As long as these "underground organizations" do not provoke powerful people and do not create big troubles in the city, those big men usually don't bother to pay attention to them.

  As for the safety and life and death of ordinary people, who would care?

  Therefore, under the influence of this social atmosphere, although the Pharmacist Guild of Kelan City looks formal on the surface, it is not surprising that they collude with the councilors to do incredible things such as kidnapping.

  As for the Mercenary Guild, they seem to be indifferent to the people they protect, and there seems to be their "unspeakable secrets".

  First of all, the reason why the Pharmacist Guild dares to do this is that it has actually been "legalized" in this environment.

  Secondly, they just "took over" a civilian family from a small mercenary group and put them under their protection, under the pretext of ensuring the "safety" of drug production.

  As the "leader" of the drug industry in Kelan City, they have such "power".

  Furthermore, the Mercenary Guild is not dominated by the president Clark Abigail alone.

  Although he is the president, the leaders of many large mercenary groups serve as vice presidents, which disperses a lot of power, and he cannot fully control the Mercenary Guild.

  Finally, the behavior of the Pharmacist Guild is also in line with the "rules" of Kelan City.

  It is almost impossible to make other leaders of the Mercenary Guild become enemies of the Pharmacist Guild for a civilian family.

  Therefore, even if Jia Lan came to the door and accused the Mercenary Guild of taking money but failing to fulfill its duty to protect the Brown family, they can find a "reasonable" excuse.

  The potions are still supplied to the Mercenary Guild as usual, and the money is remitted to the accounts of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group and the Lemley Potion Workshop as usual, without damaging the interests of the Mercenary Guild, the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group, and Jia Lan, the owner of the Lemley Potion Workshop.

  As for the Brown family, who told you to "privately" make potions?

  As for the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group being suppressed by the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, this is just a normal "competition" in the mercenary world.

  Who can you blame if you can't beat them?

  They neither killed your teammates nor stopped you from accepting guild tasks. It was your own people who left, which made the mercenary tasks impossible to complete. Who can you blame?

  When encountering conflicts, you should use the mercenary method to solve them. If you are not capable enough, who can you blame?

  In the final analysis, the current predicament is because the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group is not strong enough!

  But now, the Iguana Fang has been strengthened, and it is time to show its strength and deter all forces.

  Kathy and Dave wanted to fight, but Jia Lan didn't want to be bullied anymore.

  Jia Lan didn't think the other party was wrong, but you have your rules and I have my principles.

  Although he is only a 0-level mage, the dignity of a mage cannot be violated!

  Perhaps the mercenaries of Storm Wolf went to besiege another team of Iguana Fang, and Jia Lan and his team didn't meet them along the way.

  It was not until they reached the gate of Storm Wolf's station that the guards who were chatting at the gate noticed them, froze for a moment, and then pointed at them and shouted.