The Attitudes of All Parties! Uproar in the Encampment...

Today, the Giant Beast Forest Encampment was a little more oppressive than its usual orderly self...

As every guard carried out their duties, they could not help recalling everything that had happened last night. Whenever they passed Shokuhou Misaki's former tent, they would glance at the open space a little farther ahead. Seeing the faint blackened traces in one area, they could not suppress the fear in their eyes.

A Peak Eighth Order expert, one of the Leiting Family's people and one of the Giant Beast Forest Encampment's leaders...

Last night, right before their eyes, he had been beaten to death!

And the "culprit" was still in the encampment, without leaving. Yet the other two leaders and the guards sent by the Leiting Family had not gone to trouble him!

All of this was far beyond the comprehension of the ordinary guards. They did not know what the higher-ups were thinking, why they would allow a murderer who had killed an encampment leader to remain there, or why no one had gone to trouble him. But they had a feeling... a feeling that a storm was coming...

Coupled with the terrifying disappearance of the low-ranking guards, the encampment was still functioning normally, but an oppressive atmosphere drifted throughout it. Everyone felt weighed down. If this continued, then once the pressure accumulated beyond what their nerves could bear, it would not be strange for the guards to go mad.

Marcus's actions in response to the encampment's condition could wait, but Peros had already begun contacting the Ai Lu Empire's royal family.

Whether it was the encampment's situation, the mysterious disappearances, or Andrew of the Leiting Family being killed, any one or two of them would have been manageable. But all of them together were more than even Peros could bear. If