After crossing the vast ocean, Bai Yang brought Little Wolf and the others to a seaside town.
The town was small, with only tens of thousands of residents. The air reeked of fish, and most people here made their living by fishing out at sea.
After asking around, Bai Yang learned that the town was called Cuttlefish Town, a border town in a kingdom called the Kingdom of Kulu.
Cuttlefish Town had no mayor. It was the private domain of a minor noble named Du Weike. The noble set the taxes, maintained law and order, and even laid down some of the laws. In short, that minor noble, Du Weike, was the local king.
"Master, what are we doing here?" Little Wolf asked curiously, surveying the filthy, disorderly surroundings.
Bai Yang hadn't come here to observe the lives of the common people at the bottom of this world. Without stopping to look around, he headed straight for a modest little tavern and answered, "We're here to find someone."
"Oh." Little Wolf said no more.
From that person's memories, Bai Yang had learned that this unremarkable tavern was a small outpost of the Thieves Association, one of the seven great associations on the Holy Light Continent.
The Thieves Association was one of the seven great associations, with branches spread across the Holy Light Continent. Of course, it did more than petty theft. Selling information and carrying out assassinations were its main sources of income.
No matter how powerful someone was, their time and energy were limited. Rather than search blindly for the Divine Temple himself, Bai Yang could offer the Thieves Association an incentive and set countless members to work finding it for him. The search would be many times more efficient.
Of course, this little Thieves Association outpost was nowhere