Shuangxi Town was part of Mont Blanc County, located on the East Bank of Anya River, facing Manyun Valley across the river.
It was a peaceful agricultural town with only twenty-two permanent resident families.
Tonight, this tranquility was doomed to be shattered by iron hooves.
A squad of cavalry approached the town quietly and launched a sudden attack after dark.
The sound of hooves thundered like a storm, scaring the mayor and his wife so much that they fell out of bed.
The mayor, ignoring his wife's attempts to stop him, rushed out the door to ring the bell.
Barefoot, he had just run onto the street when he heard a whizzing sound behind him.
He turned around in fright, only to see the glinting blade coming straight for him.
The old mayor collapsed in the dust.
"The army is quelling the chaos! It has nothing to do with you lot!" Andre said sternly, wiping the blood off his knife, and warned the townspeople behind the doors and windows, "Step out, and you die!"