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Fentian Giant City, Sky High Tower.

This was a hundred-meter-tall tower standing within the city.

At the top of the tower, there was a mysterious room.

It was said that in this mysterious room, there was a round table where many of Fentian Giant City's important decisions were made by agreement.

That's why many people referred to it as the Round Table Meeting.

There was no set time for the Round Table Meeting, but whenever a major event occurred, the five major powers of the Giant City and the City Lord's Mansion would tacitly initiate the Round Table Meeting.

"Jiu Chi City has sent a request for assistance, their fourth Supreme Elder, seventh, and ninth elders have all perished, in addition to over three hundred deaths among their formal members. Jiu Chi City has proposed that we dispatch a garrison," said a representative from the Commerce Association Alliance during the meeting.

Yet as the representative from the Commerce Association Alliance spoke these words, the Elders' Council's representative looked at him with a strange glance.

If a member of the Chi Family had said this, he could have understood; after all, the relationship between the Chi Family of Fentian Giant City and Jiu Chi City was no secret to those in the upper echelons.

Just as the Fentian Temple of Yan Xing City and the Fentian Temple of the Fentian Giant City were as closely joined as if wearing the same pair of pants.

But since when had someone from the Commerce Association Alliance gotten so close to the Chi Family?

The representative of the Giant City Guard Army spoke mockingly, "I think this matter needs to be considered carefully. Previously, our suggestion to station troops in Jiu Chi City was opposed by the Chi Family. At that time, they claimed they could maintain stability in Jiu Chi City themselves. Why have they agreed this time? When they sense danger, they remember the Giant City Guard Army?"

The Elders' Council's representative gave the Giant City Guard Army's representative a glance,

This Guard Army was not full of kindly people either. According to the internal division of duties within the Giant City, the Giant City Guard Army only had command over the military but didn't have the right to distribute military pay.

It was like having gun-barrels without the money bag.

This was also a measure of checks and balances.

After all, within the Giant City Guard Army there were millions of active Beast Tamers; if we include the retired ones, the number was even more staggering.

Such a formidable force, held in the hands of a few at the very top of the Guard Army, naturally made the other forces within the city apprehensive.

But where there's a policy, there's a way around it, and this method was initially quite effective.

However, over the years, someone in the Giant City Guard Army came up with a brilliant method—charging garrison fees!

Dispatching the Giant City Guard Army to other cities within the Fentian Domain ostensibly to provide them with protection.

Since protection was being offered, it was only right to charge a protection fee, wasn't it?

Brothers provided you protection; it was only right for the younger ones to be sensible. If they weren't, the million-strong Beast Tamers of the Fentian Giant City would "reason" with them.

And indeed, this tactic proved remarkably effective.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Although there was significant resistance in the beginning, the then City Lord happened to be a former member of the Giant City Guard Army. With his help, this project initiated by the Guard Army gained traction.

That City Lord, with his measures, also secured the strong support of the Giant City Guard Army.

His authority grew immensely during his tenure, allowing his family to expand rapidly and become the third of the Three Great Families of Fentian Giant City.

This also changed the original two-family dynamic within Fentian Giant City into a three-family pattern.

The deployment of the external Guard Army provided Fentian Giant City with substantial funding, and they largely solved their military funding issues.

It also gave the city's financial affairs a significant respite.

Of course, more importantly, these protection fees were paid directly to the inner management of the Giant City Guard Army—it was as if the purse strings were back in the hands of those very few people within the Guard Army!

With military power and the money bag in hand,

The influence of the Guard Army within Fentian Giant City surged, naturally inflating their ambitions and even leading to attempts at coercion against the City Lord's Mansion at one point.

Later, the City Lord's Mansion, along with the other forces within the city, curtailed the Guard Army's overreach.

The methods were simple: they increased the number of chiefs within the Guard Army from three to ten!

And established that no one was to hold the position for more than a hundred years, with no possibility of reappointment, while each force within the city also planted their own members within the Guard Army, pushing them into higher ranks, fragmenting the internal forces and implementing a series of promotion and demotion procedures.

So the representative the Guard Army put forward today, no matter his background, had to align with the Guard Army at least during his tenure,

Otherwise, there were plenty eyeing his position.

This time, the Three Great Families nominated a representative from the Chi Family, who had paid a significant private price to secure this position.

The Chi Family's representative spoke solemnly, "They certainly underestimated the enemy this time. Xia Country's shadow is behind this, how could Jiu Chi City stand up against a whole country alone?"

The Guard Army's representative sneered, "How come I haven't heard of Xia Country stepping in? There are only a few mercenary corps near Jiu Chi City; just a few mercenary corps have them in such a sorry state?"

"Enough," said the City Lord, seated at the head of the table, as he massaged his brow. These major powers really didn't make things any easier.

Although he, sitting in the City Lord's seat, enjoyed seeing the various major powers below him fraught with strife, as it made it easier for him to navigate among them to garner more benefits for himself.

But he did not wish for infighting when facing a formidable enemy!