Pfft--
A muscular, burly man wearing a black headscarf suddenly thrust the greatsword in his hand into the middle-aged man's chest. He smoothly drove it in and pulled it back out, and the middle-aged man collapsed with a thud as blood slowly spread across the ground.
All around them, two or three dozen figures lay sprawled in disarray. Some were dressed as archers, while others were sentry spearmen or halberdiers, but without exception, every one of them had suffered fatal wounds and had clearly breathed their last.
Several enormous Rock Beasts had also died, lying face-down on the ground.
One of the burly men wearing a black headscarf stepped forward, opened the cargo satchels strapped to both sides of a Rock Beast, and grinned. "Boss, this batch looks pretty good. Quite a few of the materials inside are Rare grade. If we sell everything, they should fetch a good sum."
"Our lousy place had already been occupied by the Snakefolk monsters. Some of the brothers died, and the rest fled. Now that I think about it, having the two lands merge into the Eternal World isn't such a bad thing. We avoided those Snakefolk and got our business off to an early start. This is an auspicious sign."
There were four players wearing black headscarves. More than a dozen elite troops stood guard farther out around them. They were the surviving players who had come out of the border city.
The Black Headscarf Boss did not look particularly excited. Mulling over the information they had obtained during the interrogation and combining it with the goods they had found, he said, "This caravan seems to be from a territory called Red Leaf Territory. Red Leaf Territory belongs to the Tai Xuan Alliance, and it's a new territory that was established only