.. Four days from now, either I or your eldest Martial brother or sister will come to accompany you back to big brother's cave"."Mm..." Zax hummed. In...his opinion, he did not need minders to walk with him in the outer territory of Valgarel. As long as he will not encounter a third level Core Master or a second level Chaoyue second realm expert, he believed the he could outrun anyone."Then when will Grandmaster, trust my abilities to travel alone?" Well, considering the enhancement of the Black. Only a lucky few were ever rewarded for their patience.Ashton Lovelock, on the other hand, was a town of owner-occupation that had now become a neighbourhood of squats as the number of those who could afford to buy property in the over-crowded Kingdom of England had shrunk at the same rate as the supply of non-derelict housing stock. This town had once been home to a prosperous community of second and third generation Asian immigrants, but the regrettable policies of the recently deposed. She lived near town on a cattle farm owned by her in-laws.She and her husband lived in a trailer.Pat worked at a bank in town.Pat's salary was what they lived on.Her husband was a typical Red Neck, he wanted to just hunt and fish, not keep a steady job.A few times he had beaten the shit out of her when he came home drunk. She knew she had made a mistake marrying him but had not gotten up the guts to do anything about it yet.Lynn had married a fellow student. He had enlisted in the Marines his. His old truck was loaded with his bed a comfortable chair, his clothes and a few pots, pans and other dishes. He just hoped one of the old buildings on the place was still in good enough shape he could stay in it. It had been almost six years since he or his parent's had been there so he really didn't expect too much.Seth's land was located between Silverton and Telluride Colorado back in the mountains. It had a small mining settlement and an abandoned gold mine on it. No one lived in the.