Marco waited for Hu Yong to sit down before flipping out a report and slapping it on the table. “These past few years have not been peaceful. Not only has this happened in the city, but also the ranches outside the city, the caravans trading with other territories, and even the soldiers sent out on patrol have all been attacked by different monsters.

I've been dealing with this shit lately.

Even sending out the most elite troops to wipe them out was of no avail."

"There are a lot of monsters here. I was attacked by several water ghosts on the way here."

Livia said calmly, sitting still with her hands on her knees.

Marco sighed, "This era is terrible, even worse than the chaotic era my ancestors lived in. Originally, the kings of the Kingdom of Savoy had a special army since ancient times, responsible for cleaning up the monsters that caused trouble in the kingdom.

But everything changed after the border war with the Pochi Kingdom. Even though twelve years have passed, there are still constant battles of varying sizes in the border area, and the kingdom's strength has been depleted. This unit has never appeared again."

Marco took a breath, sipped his coffee, and continued, "Then there were more and more monsters in the wild, and the east side of the Cohen Prairie was full of wolf monsters.

There used to be only a few wild beasts in the Cohen Forest in the west. When I was a child, my father took me hunting every year. But what about now?

Werewolves, ogres, bat-winged demons, or who knows what other creatures, you can be attacked if you take a few steps.

In the neighboring Chinoxi, dozens of children were even taken away overnight.

The occurrence of diseases that I had never heard of before was so severe that it made my hair stand on end. "

As he said this, he spread the report on the table.

“It drives me crazy.”

Seeing this, Deron walked forward and squeezed Marco's shoulders, with black light flashing on his hands.

"Forget it, let's talk about the city first."

Marco calmed down, pulled out an old book with a sheepskin cover from the books piled on the table, flipped through a few pages, and then looked at Hu Yong seriously, "At first we all thought it was just an ordinary blood-sucking monster attack, so we just increased patrols and rewards. The reward you saw at the fork in the road was one of them."

Livia nodded, "But you said before that it's not just the blood-sucking monster, but also the one I met...

Tavern owner."

Marco leaned back in his chair, folded his hands over his chest, and looked a little unhappy.

Delong stepped forward and said, "But five or six bounty hunters disappeared without a sound after accepting the mission, including the soldiers we sent to assist were found dead at the scene of the crime..." "They were veterans from my father's generation, experienced and had experienced all kinds of situations, but they died without a sound there."

Marco said this with a gloomy face, clenching his fists, looking very angry.

Livia looked at Marco, who suddenly became emotional, with some confusion. At this time, Deron shook his head at Livia, indicating that she should not ask more questions.

Marco took a deep breath and continued, "Then I sent Deron to the scene with a few veterans who were previously responsible for reconnaissance missions.

Then we discovered that there were not only traces of monster attacks, but also traces of human beings and rituals. The people we sent out before were ordinary people, so they didn’t notice it.”

Marco gritted his teeth and slammed the table, "What does this mean!

This means there is a group of cultists who don’t take me seriously!

Cult activities are being carried out wantonly in my territory!

This is a provocation to my Coral family!"

The atmosphere became serious, and even Deron looked a little angry.

Livia put her hands on the table and looked at the angry Marco seriously, lowering her voice, "So, have you found out who these cultists are?"

Marco pushed the open parchment book on the table over to him. "I have been investigating for two days. I compared the situation at the crime scene with the books about cults in the library, and finally found something."

Hu Yong took the parchment book, held it in his hand and looked at the open page.

The writing on the parchment was a little blurry, and it seemed to be something that had been recorded many years ago.

Livia looked carefully at the words written on the pages.

The Blood Mist Cult, whose exact founding time and origin are unknown, is rumored to have been founded by a high-level vampire. It first appeared in 743 of the Twilight Calendar, in a small country on the westernmost side of the Longwa continent. It completely ruled the country in just a dozen days with its evil magic that controlled blood and an army of monsters that it controlled in unknown ways, and shrouded the entire country in a blood-colored mist. The surrounding countries fell into panic and asked the Wizarding Alliance for help.

When the Wizard Council, the most powerful organization on the continent at that time, learned the news, they quickly dispatched an elite team of thirteen powerful wizards led by a legendary wizard to deal with the situation. The surrounding countries united to assist the wizard teams in attacking the country occupied by the Blood Mist Sect.

The war went very smoothly until the end. The legendary wizard's power killed most of the evil cultists and monsters in an instant. But at the end of the war, the high-level vampire hiding behind the scenes appeared. The legendary wizard led the wizards to fight against them. In the end, at the cost of the legendary wizard's death and the loss of the lives of nine powerful wizards, the high-level vampires were exiled to a different space and this evil sect was wiped out.

However, there may still be a small number of cultists who have escaped or the evil code has been spread out. Traces of this evil sect have been found in various countries on the mainland.

…

After reading the records on the page, Livia raised her head and looked at Marco solemnly, "Are you sure it's the Blood Mist Sect?"

Marco nodded heavily, "I repeatedly compared the remaining traces of the ritual at the scene with the blood-sucking monster.

It should be, shouldn't you have seen it? The tavern owner you killed was one of them as expected."

Livia remembered the blood-colored mist controlled by the tavern owner when she heard this. "Do you have any clues about them now?"

"That group of rats hid very well. We haven't found their hiding place for a while. But they should be quite a lot. Their food and living expenses should be quite high. I have asked people to start investigating this aspect. The tavern owner you killed should be one of their sources of supplies. My people have already investigated there. I have to thank you for that."

Then Marco suddenly changed the subject, "By the way, since you didn't know the situation here, how did you do it in the tavern and kill a cultist?"

Livia smiled sheepishly, "It was mainly because the tavern owner had a disgusting smell, so I tried to test him. I didn't expect that he was actually a cultist. My job is basically to hunt monsters and deal with these cultists, so I took action when I saw his strange behavior."

"What's your occupation?"

Livia put away the smile on her face and sat upright.

"Witcher."

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