A Merchant's Way of Fighting

"He... was asking after that boy Taimu's mother..."

At Elder Zheng's answer, Elder Xiao, who had asked the question earlier, raised his brows and looked at Dampes with disdain. "A demon is a demon. Even at a time like this, you're still spouting filth. No class at all!"

"No..." Elder Zheng explained. "I mean it literally. He was simply asking after her, asking who Taimu's mother was and how she was doing now... It was just that his tone was rather impatient."

"Huh? Why would he ask that?" Elder Xiao looked confused.

"You're asking me, but who am I supposed to ask?" Elder Zheng spread his hands.

At that moment, hearing Dampes's words, Luo Jun frowned slightly. In one swift step, he darted to Dampes's side and grabbed him. "What are you talking about? What does Taimu's mother have to do with you?"

Dampes gritted his teeth and looked at the bewildered Taimu. "He can't understand me. Ask him for me—was his mother named Heather? Did she have azure blue eyes and short brown hair?"

Luo Jun turned to look at Taimu and beckoned him over. Taimu stepped forward, and Luo Jun translated Dampes's words for him.

Taimu looked puzzled. "I... don't know... I've never seen my mother. I haven't even seen a photograph of her, and I don't know her name." "How could that be... Then you..." Dampes wanted to press further, but an old man stepped out of the crowd and came before him. "Are you an old acquaintance of Heather's, Esteemed One?"

This old man was Apacha, the one in charge of the Land of Exile and leader of the Explorer Alliance. He had personally raised Taimu. Rather than a teacher, he was more like Taimu's adoptive father.

"You know Heather?" Dampes stared at A Pacha, his