The empty seats around the platform started to gradually fill with the most important guild members and Jack's loved ones at the front.
Eventually, some nonmembers of the guild trickled in as well. They were the important or influential figures from Gilga. Some were businessmen, others were councilmen or the assistants of councilmen. To earn a seat at this surprise wedding was practically impossible without already having a certain level of influence.
But there was something strange about the seating.
Guild members were still offered better seating than the councilmen or the wealthiest businessmen. Though they offered to pay for better seats, no one was willing to exchange seats and the ushers deny all sorts of bribes.
"What's the meaning of this?" one of the councilmen shouted into his contact crystal. "Tralon, I demand an answer!"