Chapter 381

Keen City was indeed a complete mess now.

All kinds of ambitious schemers had swarmed in, like a pack of sharks catching the scent of blood, or a great cloud of flies drawn to a rotting corpse. It was truly disgusting.

Most of these people had terrible character, and quite a few could even be called scum. As for those of good character, how many would do something so vile as trying to seize a young girl's inheritance while her brother was dying, dreaming of getting both the girl and her fortune?

Sui Xiong carefully scanned the entire city and, to his surprise, discovered an old acquaintance.

He was a middle-aged man whose hair had already turned half-gray. His manner was calm and peaceful, every word and gesture brimming with confident charm. He was no weakling, either—he cultivated both bardic arts and thievery, and his overall strength had reached the high-tier level. A genuine expert.

Naturally, his strength was beneath Sui Xiong's notice. What interested him was the man's identity.

He had met this man before, decades ago. Not long after arriving on the mainland, Sui Xiong had been preparing to establish a church of his own. In order to recruit capable territorial administrators, he had traveled all the way from Ash Forest in the northwest of the continent to the Arcane Tower Federation in the south.

Along the way, he had passed through a frontier settlement on the edge of civilized society, the Gelten Viscount Territory. At that time, the old lord of that frontier territory had died. His heir, Miss Steel, was notoriously dissolute, practically a sexual maniac, and nobody liked her. Then a young man named Lomon had appeared, carrying documents left behind by Viscount Gelten to prove that he was the viscount's illegitimate son, and declaring