As Anvis formally prepared to explore the key locations on this Giant Island,
beyond the island, the changes brought by the Players' arrival on Yar Continent were gradually beginning to ferment.
Gloria Empire, Palosia Province, Silver Crystal City.
A separate report concerning refugee unrest had been placed alone on the desk of Imperial Steward Crowley Simier.
The whole sequence of events was simple: several pickpockets had targeted a refugee who had just entered the city, but they were discovered during the theft and beaten to death on the spot.
At first glance, it was hardly a big deal from any perspective.
Refugees causing trouble—they never went a day without it. They were a group of unstable elements, yet it was inconvenient to drive them away, so they could only be left to fend for themselves in the Lower District.
A few pickpockets had died—the Lower District saw people die every day for all sorts of reasons, and often even the identities of the Dead Person could not be determined.
Other than adding a few extra names to the daily death count, making the piles of corpses look a little taller, and giving those cold-blooded Necromancers a little more conversion material, it truly meant nothing else.
As a highly experienced Steward, Crowley had seen far too much of this sort of thing.
Normally, incidents that happened almost every day in the Lower District would never even reach his hands. His subordinates would handle such trivial matters themselves.
But this time, the nature of the matter was different.
The refugee in question was not even First Order, nowhere near strong enough to fight those pickpockets. What had truly caused the pickpockets' deaths was the combined assault of nearly a thousand people from the entire street.
Unlike the ordinary Refugees of the past,