Sage cannot conduct music; he merely flails along to the rhythm. The people responsible for performing on stage can't comprehend his direction, but they understand fear and death.
Especially this man, emanating an intense aura of authority. Under the dual pressure, the performers squeeze out inspiration from their hearts, which might never have erupted even in a lifetime, following Sage's lead, playing music that carries an ethereal yet epic feeling.
Sage opened his eyes, dots of red flickering in his pupils. With Observation fully unleashed, it gradually enveloped the city.
People were moving, robbery was happening...
A feeling, from who knows where, made Sage, waving his hands, chant: "1520 city, spring clear, robbery continues to push towards the next line of the wealthy..."
"Mist from the gun barrel, blown towards the arrogant house, fear cries out to me."
Informed by Gin, the subordinates found the High-Ranking Officers and conveyed Sage's orders. Lily, leading the way, began to act. The florist might not dare to act, but when asked who owned this street, after getting the information, they killed their way in.
Blades and guns roaring, smoke from the gun barrels fired at those guards shouting for Lily to get out. After breaking into the house, they found the boss who was streaming tears of fear. Lily decapitated him with one sword stroke, and her subordinates stormed inside to search, uncovering a large amount of Belly, as well as deeds and contracts that were useless to them.
Before the stage, Sage raised his head high, waving his hands from bottom to top, his voice rising step by step:
"Mansion halls beside the slums, over the heads of noble tycoons, marked by a crimson flower, slightly bright. The sound of battle in the house, the Pirate's visit, under the sun of the Sailing era, a bloody start!"
A group of Pirates moved from the slum street to a bustling avenue. This place had no commercial activity, but the residents here lived in grand estates and had guards, who were breached by the Pirates.
In the fight as swift and destructive as a storm, the wealthy aristocrats who wanted to take over and transform the slum streets without paying much money, wanting to drive people away, cutting off their food supply, were, under Marika's leadership, killed if they resisted. Besides taking money, they also seized those deeds and contracts.
Blood flowed from the gate to the outside, gleaming slightly under the sun.
It seemed Sage felt something, and the played music was momentarily paused under the press of his hands, but soon, as he pointed with one hand to the left, the people responsible for playing on the left quickly struck the instruments, becoming urgent.
"The roaring musket!"
Bang bang bang!
Renedia, at the location of the amusement park, unfolded the Mechanical Hammer, extending the gun barrel to sweep at those guards and gang members managing the amusement park district.
"Charred statues!"
After pointing to the left, Sage quickly pointed to the right, prompting the musicians on the right to rapidly pull up music filled with a tense atmosphere.
Boom!
Renedia twisted the handle of the hammer, launching a shell that exploded the amusement park in front, the high heat from the shell igniting flames, turning the statues of the amusement park all black.
The mechanical structure of the amusement park was very ingenious; at the entrance, as long as you exchanged money for tokens and put the corresponding tokens into the machines, you could get what you wanted. The intelligent construct made Renedia very interested.
But she quickly discovered the truth: it was not a sophisticated mechanical construction at all, just using people stuffed inside the machines, using the most primitive human power to operate them.
The so-called machinery was just a tin cover. Underneath the ferris wheel were people responsible for moving the gears, and inside so-called vending machines, there were only people.
And those people paid with sweat and the high risk brought under pressure, yet the management shamelessly claimed it was the 'most high-tech' amusement park.
This infuriated Renedia. She didn't oppose manpower, but a group of people tortured to near death by machines... that was not the purpose of creating mechanical inventions.
Just like how ships are made for sailing, not for taking people's lives for the sake of ships.
Renedia wanted these managers to do their jobs properly and not replace machines with human labor, tainting the name of machinery.
So when she received the signal, she didn't even wait for a report on what to do — she blew it up first!
"The melting human image! Everyone will die! On the field of fame! A futile illusion!"
Sage's fingers flew, merging the music from both sides into one.
Within Carnival City, a great fire also ignited. The plundering actions of the subordinates were indeed rough, as they were notified to not just rob, but if they couldn't find people, even burn the house down.
Of course, some deeds and contracts were missed. These things were sold to Link, but Link only needed to hold part of them. What he wanted, instead, was for all these things to vanish, leaving nothing behind.
This way, when recruiting new big figures into the field, he could have the capital to confront them.
In the flames, those wanting to preserve those assets rushed in heedlessly of the fire, melting inside the houses along with the flames.
Those things cannot replace life, resting only on power and authority, but in front of greater power and authority, they are as meaningless as scrap paper.