"Sir, I don't know which sect I should belong to, the monk who taught me has already passed away," the boy replied.
Brand was suddenly enlightened. So that's how it is. The other party might not have received formal teachings, thus can only be considered an ordinary believer.
His interest in this small episode only lasted for a moment before his mind quickly returned to the mission at hand. Through the previous investigation, Brand had already roughly figured out the overall situation in this silver mine, but this only made him feel increasingly troubled.
As far as he knew, that Sword Master—the greatest threat in their mission—rarely appeared in the mine, and most of the time stayed in the barracks. And of course, they couldn't just sneak into the barracks to take him out; sneaking in was easy, but killing him without getting detected was pure fantasy.
