82 C81 To the Inner City, The Council Awaits.

Auryn left the Blacksmith after a few moments, trying to pull herself away from the group that had started to kneel before her. With a heavy heart and mixed emotions she rejoined Keen and the soldiers who had watched the entire event.

"Madam Auryn. Is it wise to leave a weapon like that in the hands of this Blacksmith?"

His eyes were focusing as Keen looked at the woman with wonder and worried about the actual reason behind it, his nature sceptical as a weapon blessed by a Demigod was something that was extremely rare and never handed to the average mortal.

"Please, the weapon is mortal forged. It's not like it's gotten a powerful enchantment. I just named and gave the weapon a small piece of myself. I'm not worried at all."

Auryn responded by waving her hand. Her attitude made it evident that she was not thinking all too much about the consequences of giving a weapon with a divine enchantment to someone she just met.

The group continued into the lowest part of the town, the buildings growing more substantial as the average home grew several sizes. The average house in the city was a long but thin building with tiles, bricks and glass-less windows.

The buildings were built tall slightly then vast as the space around the area held a hard limited for the area given. This fact was different for the rich who both had massive manor style houses made out of exotic woods, stones and metals they also had great homes which each manor could potentially house an entire street worth of people.

The few other buildings in the area seemed to mostly centre right in the middle of the entire city block. Sitting at the centre of the whole city was a statue of a tall man wielding a spear in one hand and a large shield in the other, the features of the man seemed to be worn with the passing of time as it was a very generic statue.

The small plack at the bottom: bronze in appearance with engravings pressed into the metal.

"Ingros - God of the Sun, Light and Hope. Champion of Armies and Soldiers."

Auryn remembered the lore behind Ingros. The Dwarfs, Dark elves and a few other races that followed Ingros all suffered terrible effects when the Demigod fell.

The Dwarfs and Dark elves suffered from sun sensitivity which caused them to move and hide in dark and remote locations. Losing the ability to tolerate the sun after the Demigod of the sun perished.

Living with the Demigods provided so many benefits but once they left it started a chain reaction that began to curse and even hinder the races that followed them.

Auryn stood at the statue: hands pressed together as she sent a silent prayer off to Ingros, hoping that wherever he was, it was better for him.

"Madam Auryn, Do you have faith in Ingros?"

Standing by her side, having already sent his prayer. Keen asked his question as he looked to the woman, trying to figure out what kind of person she was.

"I have faith in them all. It was a paradise between all of them before the great war. I fear we will never go back to such a state, but maybe we have hope now."

It took a few moments before Keen looked back at the woman with interest in what she meant. Before he could ask her any more detail, Auryn had already begun moving on.

The few other buildings included high expense stores with the most top quality of food and supplies. The large church focused on the religion of Ingros and even allowed all other faiths except Saleh's.

The last building being the largest which was the city hall, massive marble pillars lining up the entrance as the group entered up the stairs and past the cornerstones before coming into the building.

The interior of the building was a similar blue, white and black marble with related carved tables and chairs, transparent windows made of pure glass around the hall. Keen led the group up the stairs to the second floor.

Many Elves, Dwarfs and a few humans stopping as they stared at the group that had arrived, this being the first time such a large group had entered into the city hall, getting lead to the council chamber.

A few moments later Keen pushed open two large marble doors, creaking as the small group was lead inside with a few guards behind carrying some of the supply from the carts.

"Incoming Auryn from the Town of Sanctuary as a mediator with her guards."

Kaye rolled her eyes as she got the follower treatment compared to the woman with the special powers.

"Let me introduce the council to you." Keen responded as he nodded to the seven people sitting behind the half crescent table in the middle of the hall, each seat allowing the others to see each of the council members.

Starting from the left side of the hall, Keen pointed with a flat hand towards each council member.

"Council Member Poiea, Leader of the mining industry."

He said pointing to a sizeable dwarf woman, thick long hair that seemed to be almost as bushy as a regular dwarf's beard with red strands in her black hair. Her eyes were sharp like diamonds as she folded her arms, looking to each of the guests.

Going down the line to the next council member.

"Council Member Karoth, Leader of the Trade imports and exports."

The next one is a tall, thin and somewhat annoyed looking dark elf male who seemed to see this entire event to be above him in status, time and even money.

"Council Member Fezin, Leader of the City Planning and Buildings"

A bushy Dwarf male who seemed to struggle to even sit up in his chair, dark brown hair and beard covering his entire face and body which made him look like he could use his facial hair as a blanket with his naturally small size which was similar to a gnome then an actual dwarf.

"Council Member Desren, Leader of the processing industry."

The last council member here seemed to stare at Auryn with interest and hunger; it was clear that she had a keen eye and with the information spreading like wildfire about the sword she helped create the interest was somewhat real.

Her looks similar to Karoth as her statue was almost similar in size. Her blonde hair the only difference.

Her information network stronger than anyone else in the room.

"This is the four council members. We have seven seats currently, we do not need all of them, and the seventh seat is for Ingros when he returns to us."

Auryn bowed her head politely as those behind her did the same.

"Thank you for the welcome Council members of Sengi. I'm Auryn."

"And I've been sent here by the All-Father."