Nick walked towards the Dregs while three of the guards kept following him.
Two of the guards were rather tall and wore black uniforms, similar to the uniforms of the tax collectors, but without the gas masks.
The entire gas mask thing for the tax collectors mainly existed to keep their identities secret and so that they didn't need to smell the disgusting Dregs.
Normal guards didn't wear gas masks.
But right now, they wish they did.
As soon as they walked into the Dregs, the faces of the two guards behind Nick scrunched up while the third guard far behind them just sneered in disgust.
The Outer City had a solid wall of metal between itself and the sewers, but the Dregs were mostly built on rusty grates.
One could imagine how bad it smelled to walk over something like the sewers of Crimson Fungus City.