According to the follow-up intelligence in Anvis's possession, after the Greatsword Mercenary Group met with disaster, some family members of its former members had voluntarily investigated the mercenaries' whereabouts.
But before long, those people vanished one after another.
One of them had once claimed that he had obtained an important clue regarding the Greatsword Mercenary Group's whereabouts and called on the others to search together.
The next day, his cold corpse was found by the roadside, covered in several deep penetrating wounds. No one dared collect it.
Certain forces lurking in the shadows had carried out a thorough purge of everything connected to the Greatsword Mercenary Group.
This woman's death was likewise inseparable from that.
Investigating alone and lacking any experience in such matters, she had quickly drawn the attention of interested parties during her inquiries. Then, on the road to Manerqinke Fortress, she was brutally murdered.
Her body had been transported by a riding beast and discarded in the wilderness by the roadside.
Before her death, her intense obsession had left part of her soul fragment behind in the necklace, forming the most basic kind of obsession item.
Originally, with the strength of an ordinary person like her, it would have been utterly impossible for her lingering soul to develop self-awareness.
Much less seek another's help and dispel the obsession she had carried in life.
Had this continued, after enduring endless sun and rain, her lingering soul would only have grown weaker and weaker, eventually disappearing as the Black Iron Necklace it clung to weathered and rusted away.
But fortunately, she had encountered a Player with a game Panel, someone capable of automatically triggering quests.
Even more fortunately, the Last Dragonborn had actively begun uncovering the truth behind the quest in order to explore the plot and trigger high-level