For the past half week, gunfights had frequently broken out at night in Coldwater Port between the police and monsters that could not be revealed to the public. Most of the Fishmen, with their powerful regenerative abilities, had mastered firearms. Before the Ring Arcanists arrived, the local police could only counter them with firearms as well.
Combined with the growing number of Ring Arcanist organizations entering the area, the nights in Coldwater Port had become increasingly noisy.
The Fishbone Pirate Ship continued to appear in the waters near Coldwater Port. Of the eleven Ring Arcanists who had escaped from the ship alongside Shade and the Princess, another had been found by the Church. Unfortunately, she was a middle-aged woman, not Shade's target.
Princess Leisha had also located one target through the intelligence department of Coldwater Port City Hall and Military Intelligence Section Six's Coldwater Port branch. This one was male, but unfortunately, if Leisha could find him, other organizations could as well.
Before the Princess could make an appearance, at least three Mid-Ring Arcanists raided the Police Department at Coldwater Port's docks, killing that unfortunate Second Ring Warlock and the innocent officers dragged into the incident on the spot.
This greatly enraged both the Church and city hall. Even the King, far away in Tobesk, heard of the tragedy at Coldwater Port's docks and ordered the local authorities to find the culprits as soon as possible.
Besides that, other reports whose authenticity even Leisha could not determine were spreading through the increasingly dangerous Coldwater Port.
For instance, word from the black market claimed that someone was offering a massive reward of 1,000 pounds for each piece of information about the Ring Arcanists who had escaped from the Fishbone Pirate Ship. There were also sightings of Mermaids in the waters near