Grey Veil, the mayor's mansion.

A servant gathered the news that the various forces had brought back from the monastery and gently placed it on a square table of logs carved with delicate carvings. It wasn't until the person behind the table waved his hand slightly that the next person bowed down and retreated.

Inserting the quill into the pen holder and leaving the uninked letter aside, Mayor Elton moved his fingers, which had been a little stiff from the long hours of writing, to pick up the new arrival and quickly skim through it.

Elton has a square face with strong spirits, which is easily reminiscent of a tough guy who fought in the north and south when he was young. There are not many wrinkles on the face, but if you look closely, you can still see that you have entered the end of middle age.

After reading the news quickly, he handed it to the side, and the old housekeeper who was standing on the side stepped forward to receive it in his hand and also entered the reading.

The message is not very content, or very little useful, and at the end it highlights a few doubts.

The first is the dagger that Melissa held when she died, a common form that can be found everywhere, used by thieves, hunters, and farmers, but it does not seem to have been Melissa's belongings.

Secondly, a recently excavated grave pit was discovered in the monastery cemetery, presumably originally intended for Melissa, large enough to accommodate herself. But in the end, somehow it didn't work, just hastily filled it in.

Finally, there was the emblem that remained on Melissa's chest, and at this moment the emblem had arrived on the table in front of the mayor with the news.

After picking up the emblem and carefully looking at the patterns on both sides, Elton gently rubbed the emblem with his fingertips, feeling the coldness of the iron emblem.

“...... Heh, pretend to be ancient?" Elton whispered.

The identification of this emblem showed that it was a recent creation and that it clearly showed signs of aging.

It is not difficult to understand that for an organization, the emblem is equivalent to an introduction to the outside world, and sometimes it also represents the face of the organization or is used to prove identity, and if necessary, it can also convey the will of the organization to approve or warn.

The purpose of doing old is obviously to gain a sense of heaviness through time, and to elevate the foundation of the organization from a false level.

It's just that this crude method is as ridiculous in Elton's eyes as a child's nonsense.

At this time, the old butler on the side finally finished reading, stood back to the side with his hands down, and waited silently.

This is a tacit understanding between master and servant. Usually when something that needs to be dealt with happens, it will be based on the will of Mayor Elton, and the old butler will assist in supplementing from the side, checking and filling in the gaps, and finally setting the tone for the matter.

However, the news in his hand came a little late, and Elton really didn't have anything to say for a while.

After the news of Melissa's death came, various forces came one after another, indicating that they would participate in the arrest of the murderer and maintain order in the town.

Elton looked at it amusedly, and did not stop it, and answered one by one.

It's just that before the monastery could produce any results, an organization claiming to be a brotherhood took the initiative to take on the matter.

Brotherhood?

Elton felt as if he had a vague impression, but it was too far away, as vague as a childhood dream.

In fact, as soon as Melissa's death came, many things that had to be done were already being done.

As the head of a town, it is certainly impossible to do nothing.

Elton's large number of men were scattered, light and dark. Only two or three people went to the monastery, and more of them were concentrated on the streets, and the whole town was under full martial law.

After the Brotherhood suddenly jumps out, the mayor's forces focus on the strange faces in the town and arrest the rumor-mongers. Any other person who dares to claim himself, take advantage of the situation, resist, or have bad intentions will be killed on the spot.

A large net was cast, but unfortunately no fish were caught.

This brotherhood seems to have risen out of thin air, and yet it has disappeared without a trace.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, everything is still under Elton's control, and the conflict with the Brotherhood has not yet occurred.

This means that if the other party is willing to send someone to come forward, regardless of the intention, then the matter still has to be discussed.

Once the people below capture or kill a few of the Brotherhood members, it may end up in a never-ending all-out war.

Watching Elton mutter, there was nothing to discuss. The old butler standing on the side tucked his hand into his sleeve and silently put some of the information he had compiled on the table, which was also about the fraternity.

Elton tilted his head and picked up the information with some confusion and read it quickly.

“...... Hey, what an old organization, didn't they die at the end of the Old Kingdom with those fanatical cathar knights? It's been hundreds of thousands of years, how can they still be active now, and they're still running away in a barren place like Grey Curtain Town? What the hell are they trying to do?"

Mayor Elton said jokingly, anger building up in the tiger's eyes.

"The inheritance of those organizations will not be easily severed, and of course, it is also possible that the people who are raising the flag today are no longer the descendants of the original group of Brotherhood members, and anything can happen in the long river of time. The old butler duly added.

The surrounding towns or territories have always been very afraid of foreign forces, because every time a new force intervenes, it often means turbulent changes.

If you are not careful, it is likely to be an old story of changing flags.

Now, an organization called the Brotherhood has stormed its territory and severed one of its money-making arms.

If they want to do things in Grey Curtain Town, they will definitely have to buy some people in the town to inquire about them, and it is possible that some people have already joined them.

And after they knew who they were, they still cut off one of their arms.

Is this a provocation against oneself, a temptation, or is the Brotherhood's usual style of acting tough? Or is there something behind this that they don't know?

Later, the Brotherhood said that it was cleaning up the traitor Melissa, and the news came from a bunch of rumors that could not be found.

Traitor?

Considering that the Brotherhood first used the strong poison of the Corrupt Light, and then slit its throat in one fell swoop, it really looked a bit like a way to deal with traitors.

As for whether Melissa is working hard for herself and sweating for others at the same time, to be honest, Elton didn't believe it in his heart.

However, after so many years, not making judgments easily has already penetrated into his bones, otherwise he would not have been stable in the position of mayor for more than ten years.

And Elton suddenly remembered that Melissa had an identity that he had almost forgotten, the head nun of the convent.

What resources does she have at her disposal? It's nothing more than a group of orphans.

Could it be that she is secretly transporting orphans in the direction of the main city?

In fact, this did not happen in the early days, and there was a period of time when the lords from various places frequently sent a large number of orphans to the Dark Temple, and the temple rhetoric was to invoke the glory of the Lord God and support the growth of a group of orphans.

Elton wasn't in the slightest of the shit behind the shit, and the theocracy had always been something he hated and wanted to stay away from.

After the War of the Gods in history, it is said that the Dark Council mobilized a large number of forces to carry out a bloody and ruthless purge of the believers of the Temple of Light.

However, with the power of the Temple of Light once overpowering the mainland, they have been able to hold up the entire Bright Calendar! Can they finish the killing? It's just a joke to cover people's ears.

Elton believed that there must be many remnants of the Temple of Light lurking among the people, and even around him.

If Melissa really ...... Thinking of this, Elton's gaze suddenly became a little hideous. If this is the case, then you will step on your own bottom line.

Who are they? Elton knows very well.

You may be a celebrity in the town or in this territory, but once you leave this land, there is not much to talk to. If you put it in the main city of Odrenza in the south, the third-order swordsman is nothing more than a joke.

"Tom... Tong. ”

There was a knock on the door, and the servant brought in a new piece of news, and Elton's train of thought was pulled back to the matter at hand.

After a quick reading and handing it to the butler, Elton frowned and fell into thought again.

The Brotherhood struck again, and just yesterday, sent a guy from the Swordsman Guild named Mad Dog Joster to meet the ancestors.

The news made Elton angry and relieved at the same time.

Angry because the Brotherhood obviously didn't take him, the head of a town, in his eyes, what about full martial law, you play yours, I play mine.

He breathed a sigh of relief because Mayor Elton had sniffed something else out of it.

If the Brotherhood does its own thing again, then Elton will have to take the debt himself, whether he wants it or not.

But now it's just an inconsequential little character who died, and it doesn't matter at all whether it's a mad dog or what kind of dog it is, and it doesn't have much impact on the order of the town.

This made Elton feel as if the Brotherhood wasn't coming for him, and that they seemed to have a clear purpose of their own.

So now there is only one thing left in the end, Melissa is dead, and it has happened, and now all the forces are waiting for their final attitude towards the Brotherhood.

Whether to wait and see what happens, or continue to show your muscles as tough as ever.

Elton hovered his index finger on the table, then fell regularly, the pounding of the snatch quickly echoing through the room, a habitual movement of his quick thoughts.

After a while, Elton finally stopped thinking and said to the butler standing aside:

"Melissa's matter, send someone to the Inquisition in Newtown to report it, and on the Abbey's side, we will push a reliable candidate to the top. Also, send a letter to the old fellow of Savyn with a letter crow, and tell me about this brotherhood, and forget it, I'll write it myself later. ”

The old butler did not rush to leave, but waited silently, he knew that those were just routine procedures just now, and the point had not yet come.

"As for the Brotherhood,...... Withdraw the men we sent out first, and see. ”

After speaking, Elton turned his head to look at the butler whose hair had been dyed with hoarfrost, this old fellow who had followed him for most of his life, and his expression was suddenly a little embarrassed.

"We're all old! Now that we're old, we're going to look like old guys, let's drink and look back together." ”

In the end, Elton seems to have chosen to compromise, or wait and see, attributing the reason to old age and time.

But even if Thor was present at this time and saw this scene, he would only laugh it off.

The one who has it is always worried about losing, and at the end of the day, perhaps the one who has nothing is the most powerful.