No one spoke. The crowd was shocked. Ronnie looked beyond distressed, and stiffness invaded the armored Captain, but no one dared to argue against the rooting expert from the Merchants Guild.
Clearly, the woman was in charge in ways that went beyond her cultivation level, and the previous interaction and her affiliation connected a few dots in Liam's mind.
'This market is mainly the Merchants Guild doing,' Liam understood. 'Does this apply to the Merchants Guild as a whole? Or is the Enforcement Guild more important elsewhere?'
Liam kept those thoughts in the back of his mind. Something demanding of immediate attention had appeared, and a lot of good could come from it.
The woman had not only given Liam the opportunity to fix the mess. She also admonished those who had shown hostility, or at least a bias, against him.
