Unrest

Yehuai City, eastern district.

Inside a sprawling mansion.

A Jingye Division squad clad in black armor entered the inner residence of the mansion and stopped before a finely decorated, two-story building. The man leading the squad didn't hesitate for long. He opened the door with one hand and signaled for his warriors to stay alert.

With a creak, the door swung open. The leader, clearly a man, furrowed his brow.

The smell of blood.

The room was filled with a powerful, heavy stench of blood.

"Leader Li, we don't know how this happened, or what caused it. In fact, after our lord entered the room to rest, he never came out again. And there were always twenty guards stationed outside. They never left."

Beside the man in black armor stood an elderly man in a plain robe. He looked around nervously as he spoke to the Jingye Division squad investigating the case.

The old man was the steward of the Night Locust County Commander's Mansion.

A shocking tragedy had taken place at the Commander's Mansion that day. The Night Locust Army commander, a general in charge of five thousand soldiers, had died silently in the night, despite being surrounded by layers of guards.

Amid the ensuing chaos, the Commander's Mansion had reported the case to the Night Locust Army and the Prefectural Governor's Mansion, requesting an investigation. That was how they had come to be here.

Hearing the old steward's words, the black-armored Jingye Division Silver-Ranked Warrior, a black-eyed man with thick brows, gave a slight nod without committing himself, then asked, "Where are the twenty guards? I have a few questions for them."

"They've already been disarmed and had their armor removed. They're being held under guard in the woodshed for now." The old man seemed to have expected