After seeing Isengard off, Ian sat in the private room for a while longer.
His eyes were closed as he pondered the matter.
"Indigenous people... right, the indigenous people."
Ian murmured to himself, "Yes, I nearly forgot—the indigenous people must have discovered the Deepsea Crystal Dragon long before we did. Their totem master is probably still nursing the injuries Teacher gave him back then, which is why he had to yield step by step even against a dragon breed at the peak of the First Energy Level, nearly losing his own lair."
"The indigenous people cannot possibly be unaware of this. They will not sit by and watch the exploration team act."
"And where exactly did they get those Blazing Flame Lands firearms? Although those guards did not say it outright, I could tell this was anything but ordinary. What it implies may be no less significant than the Ellen Family's mission!"
After all, the Ellen Family and their mission to capture the Deepsea Crystal Dragon were merely an added delight, icing on the cake.
But the indigenous people's unusual movements, and the possible hidden agents from the Blazing Flame Lands behind them, could truly threaten Harrison Port and Ian's everyday safety!
—No one knew whether the Blazing Flame Lands, silent for four or five years, had already dispatched a special behind-enemy-lines unit to plot some unknown secret scheme.
Such things were truly impossible to say.
"The urgent task now is to settle my own plan and report this information to the elder and the Viscount—they are the ones in charge."
The Ellen Family, Patrick and the pirates, Viscount Grant, the indigenous people, and the Blazing Flame Lands agents who might exist behind them.
Multiple forces had gathered in the South Sea over the Deepsea Crystal Dragon and certain hidden