Ray's gaze deepened.
The Aurum family was different.
Instead of being biased to men and treating women differently.
The family head position was passed down to the most capable.
It didn't matter if you were a man or a woman, as long as you were better than the others competing for the family head position, you will become the heir to the Aurum Family.
Selena wanted to become her father's heir.
So she was fighting for it.
"She is as capable as she is beautiful," Ray praised Selena.
"When will she return?" he asked.
"Not before summer," came the attendant's reply.
Ray's understood the reason.
He understood too well.
Winter in the Northern Outer Region was a season of death.
It was the time of the year when mortality surged.
Only fortresses like Labyrinth City, shielded by several Silver Tamers and a Viscount, could resist the dread of winter.
Everywhere else, survival was a gamble.
"Then about the skinned corpse," Ray said calmly. "I'd like to buy it."
