Chapter 277: Chapter 277: How to Protect What Is Precious (1)

There was a strange village within the territory of the Bydent family. It was a small settlement of about a hundred households, built modestly along the ridges deep in the mountains.

Arbold, the former lieutenant-captain of the Order of the Silver Leopard and now aide to the current patriarch Jordic, surveyed the village. The low stone fences were nothing more than markers of each property line, and the lack of even a single watchtower seemed to testify to how safe these mountains were.

“The Ghost Face Slayer is really living in a place like this?”