The core country of the Nine-Nation Business Alliance is undoubtedly the Kingdom of Manning, which has the largest land area and the most prosperous political city in the Business Alliance. In addition to Manning, whether it is economic strength or political status, the White Harbor Kingdom is firmly in the second place within the business alliance.

White Port, as the name suggests, was a port that was originally the largest commercial port on the Morro River. The Morro River crosses the Nine Nations Merchant Alliance, and the merchant ships of many countries will gather at the place where the tributaries converge, stop and rest, this place, that is, the White Harbor Kingdom. The country is all about white, and the entire city's façade is painted with white clay from a hill on the Moro River, which is why it is called White Harbor.

Correspondingly, there is another city in Desik called Black Harbor, but that's another story.

The throughput of the White Harbor Wharf is quite huge, every day, the merchant ships coming and going from the countries of the merchant alliance will gather at the white port wharf, and after resting, one by one, the fleet, down the river, will soon arrive at the end of the merchant alliance route, Manning City.

Standing at the White Harbor Pier, Green and Setie looked at the merchant ships on the Morro River, chatting with each other as they waited for a man to arrive.

"Master Setty, did you know that in addition to the prosperity of commerce, the White Harbor Kingdom used to produce a special profession that was famous on the mainland. Master Green suddenly asked Master Setty.

"Oh, I haven't heard of it. Master Setie said he didn't know.

Green laughed, "It's normal not to understand, this was more than a hundred years ago. Otherwise, I don't know if I consulted the information at headquarters. ”

It turns out that more than 100 years ago, there was a special organization in Baigang Country, called Shadow. They are an illegal mercenary organization that specializes in accepting illegal mercenary assignments that are not allowed by the Adventurer's Guild, including a large number of thefts, assassinations, and other activities. Their leader, Shadow Blade, was a skilled assassin whose greatest feature was that his sword could spew yellow sword energy.

This organization, at that time, carried out many missions in various countries, and many dignitaries of various countries were assassinated, so it attracted the pursuit of the adventurer's guild, and finally, after the hunter group personally intervened, the "Shadow" organization was completely destroyed, and the "Shadow Blade" himself died in the last pursuit.

"And then, the organization just disappeared?" asked Setie.

"Indeed, it just disappeared. However, according to the information, Shadow Blade himself once adopted several orphans, and these orphans all disappeared later. The yellow sword qi also disappeared on the continent, until the last time, it appeared in Manning. ”

"So, you suspect that the assassin has something to do with the Shadow of the White Harbor Order?"

Green didn't answer, but stared at a big fat man walking in the distance, "Well, then I'll have to ask him." ”

O'Neill is an intelligence analyst at White Harbor in the Adventurers' Guild, a profession with a name higher than it actually is. In fact, he was nothing more than the data keeper of the Adventurer's Guild, and this time, the detailed information about the Shadow Organization, the Adventurer's Guild's documents were passed to the White Harbor Branch, and the Chief Elder of White Harbor had to find O'Neill from the moldy pile of old papers and give him the task.

O'Neal is a very lazy person, with mediocre martial arts skills, and is a well-known big slacker in the Adventurers' Guild and White Harbor Branch. In fact, he also inherited this job from his father, otherwise with his ability, I am afraid that he can only become a beggar in Bai Gangguo.

Fortunately, although people are lazy, O'Neill has a special ability, that is, a particularly good memory. People with a good memory may not be able to do a lot of things, but as a data custodian, O'Neill knows everything about the materials that have not been turned over for many years.

So, when there was a request from HQ for information on the Shadow Order, it took O'Neill only a short time to find the documents that HQ needed.

O'Neill strolled towards White Harbor step by step, wondering who the general assembly would send to conduct the investigation this time, whether his performance would impress the big men in the headquarters, and perhaps the chief elder of the branch would give him a little more salary.

While thinking, O'Neill approached Green and Set, who were sitting by the dock.

Setie saw the fat man in the distance coming over, so he stood up, and Green did the same, took a step forward and stretched out his hand to the other party, "O'Neal, huh?"

O'Neill was taken aback, only to hear that the club would send someone to White Harbor and arrange for him to come to the dock to pick up people. I was still thinking about it just now, I didn't know who the person from the headquarters would be, and I didn't know the person from Manning, when suddenly there were two strangers standing in front of me.

O'Neill looked at the people carefully, a man and a woman. The man was carrying a long sword, his hair was meticulously combed, and he had a middle-aged face that was not close to the living, while the woman, with blonde hair, a delicate face, a slender figure, and a gorgeous robe, could not tell what kind of occupation it was, and her age did not look young.

"Yes, I'm O'Neal!" O'Neill hurriedly accosted, "Hello, who are you?"

"I'm Green, the head hunter of the association, and this is the Sytie mage from San Jose who has come to assist in the investigation. Green introduced himself.

"Chief Hunter!" O'Neill was startled, as a member of the Adventurers' Guild, O'Neill certainly knew that the Chief Hunter was the big man of the Guild. "Ah, you're the chief hunter, you're my idol, and you've heard that you captured 'Scissorhands Todd' (Note 1) a few years ago, and the incident of the 'Dark Puppeteer' (Note 2) that happened in Sunset Mountain last time. ”

Although O'Neill is fat, he has a lot of words, and after knowing Green's identity, his conversation box can no longer be closed. Green glanced at Setie helplessly, eager to interrupt O'Neal. As an ordinary data custodian, O'Neill is not short of illusions, and Green, the chief hunter, is naturally the object of his admiration.

"Alright, O'Neal, let's get down to business. Green had to interrupt O'Neal.

"Oh oh, okay, business, business. I almost forgot. O'Neill nodded hurriedly, "Please follow me, I have all sorted out the corresponding information." ”

Green and Setie glanced at each other and quickly followed.

"The Shadow Organization collapsed 99 years ago, when the Shadow Organization that assassinated many dignitaries attracted the attention of various countries, so under the leadership of the Adventurers' Guild, the countries dispatched elite samurai, and finally dug up the base of the organization in White Harbor, killing about 50 assassins on the spot, including the Shadow Blade himself who could use yellow sword qi, also died under the siege of many masters.

Since the death of Shadowblade, the Shadow Order has not acted publicly. These are public records, and in fact, in the chapter's papers, I found that several Assassins eventually broke through during the Great War and have since disappeared, along with several orphans adopted by Shadowblade himself.

What's more important is that those orphans, the people of the Adventurer's Guild have been hunted down later, and several battles that have occurred have been recorded, and the oldest orphan, his sword can also emit yellow sword qi!"

Green listened to O'Neill's story and couldn't help but nodded, "Your information here is indeed more detailed than the general assembly, it seems that someone in the White Harbor branch was covering up this information back then." ”

O'Neill shook his head, "No, if you really want to bury it, these paper materials will not be kept." In fact, when I went to check, the information was piled up in the deepest part of the cabinet and no one had touched it for years. ”

Mage Setie interjected, "Then why is there no such information at all. ”

O'Neill smiled, "It's not strange, it's so troublesome to send it, it's not an important document, you are from a big city, you may not understand our low-level officials." ”

"I see. Green breathed a long sigh of relief, "As long as someone in the guild doesn't deliberately hide it, then the matter is not so complicated." O'Neill, what other clues are there besides these records. ”

"There are more clues missing, and there are so many paper materials. However, there is one more thing, which is strange. ”

"What's the matter?" asked Green.

O'Neill continued, "The record says that the reason why the Shadow Organization caused such a big storm at that time was that they dared to take on any assassination mission, but also because their success rate was quite high, and no matter how well the target was hidden, the Shadow Organization was able to find them. Captured captives confessed that their leader had an artifact that allowed them to track down their targets, no matter where they were. ”

"It's so amazing!" both Green and Setie were surprised, "and where did this artifact go?"

O'Neill shook his head: "Someone stole it!"

"Stolen!" the two looked incredulous.

"Yes, it was stolen, and not long before the final round-up, the artifact mysteriously disappeared. Back then, the reason why the leader hastily gathered the people in the organization and went to White Harbor to gather was to arrange to find the lost artifact, which was caught by the tail by the adventurer's guild and was wiped out. ”

O'Neill stopped narrating, and that was all he could find in the chapter. Green and Setie, thanking O'Neal, left.

"It seems that this matter is really not that simple. Setie sighed, "What are we going to do next?" Green. ”

Green looked down and pondered for a moment, "It's been too long, and it's clear that that assassin must have something to do with the Shadow Order! ”

Green couldn't tell what the basis of his hunch was, and their clues were broken again. And in the depths of the Great Misty Forest hundreds of miles away, in the city of Nosilio, a group of people walked into the Yongquan Palace, and a female elf was tied up by five flowers and was kneeling in front of the throne of the Yongquan Palace.

The next few people bowed their heads and saluted the elf king on the throne, and the elf king, who had always closed his eyes, stared at the kneeling people under the throne with a rare sober view.

Note 1: Todd Scissorhands, a serial killer who happened in Manning a few years ago, likes to cut the bodies of his victims into pieces with scissors, which is extremely cruel, and was later captured by the Adventurers' Guild Hunters.

A tribute to one of your favorite movies.

Note 2: This is the Karman incident, see above. The official language is unclear, which has led to rumors on the mainland, many people saying that the murderer at the time was a dark puppeteer.