"It sounds like a ghost, only the legendary ghost would silently take away someone's life like this," Count Oting was the first to speak, which surprised Brand.
This Earl from the kingdom, after his brief astonishment, began to reassess Brand, perhaps due to his occupational hazard—the replay of the entire battle had given him a fresh perspective.
If this noble had been viewing Brand with personal emotions and certain biases from the beginning, he now finally noticed some details he hadn't seen before:
For example, when did Erune produce such a character?
The more he thought about it, the more suspicious he felt; wasn't the Baron of the Lengshan Domain in Tonyger? If he remembered correctly, the lord of that backwater shouldn't have been one of Count Rangdenier's inept sons?
