"So that was it!"
Qin Ran murmured to himself.
The quest scroll for the Title Instance had come from the loot he had gained by killing the Killer Player Norbien.
No one but Qin Ran knew about this. Even Lawless, who had arrived afterward, knew nothing about it.
Then how had the Broker found out?
It was simple. From the moment Norbien had acquired the secondary scroll for the Title Instance [Sword of Dawn], every move he had made had been under the Broker's surveillance.
In fact, the secondary scroll for [Sword of Dawn] was probably bait the Broker had deliberately released.
His aim had been to lure out more Killer Players!
The Broker must have known about the Killer Players for a long time.
But he had chosen to turn a blind eye to them for the time being.
After all, their existence was very profitable for him.
Just think of the Broker's Secret Market!
How many items there had been sold by Killer Players?
The Broker had probably picked up on the clues in some of those items.
But as time passed and the Broker's strength and influence grew, his thinking had shifted slightly.
It wasn't that the Broker wanted the Killer Players to cease existing. He simply wanted a group of Killer Players who would obey his orders and work for him.
But the Killer Players were too deeply concealed. Unless they exposed themselves, it was difficult to determine whether a player was one of them.
So the Broker needed bait!
The Title Instance scroll was precisely that bait!
He only needed to alter the information about the Title Instance scroll slightly and deliberately spread a few false rumors to draw in more Killer Players.
For example, that a single Title Instance scroll could allow three to