When rumours began to spread that the largest Dark Guild in the Imperial City collapsed, the other Dark Guild Masters, sensing something was amiss, gathered at a site in an abandoned village on the southern edge of the desert area stretching the south of the Empire.
The Rasaha district was a savannah-like region that was a harsh environment. Years ago, the area was a combination of wilderness and grassland, but twenty years ago, the sandworms went on a rampage and turned the whole area into a desert. Most surrounding villages and towns got abandoned.
“The Dark Guild Fenrir got attacked by someone. It seems that all the guild members got killed within a single day, and we have not received any information at all, but the fact that not only the members but even their dead bodies are missing suggests that someone did it.”
“Hn? What’s with Fenrir? He can only summon Kobolds, you know?”
“Watch your mouth.”
“Hei-hei.”
The effect of the loss of the Dark Guild Fenrir, who practically united the numerous Dark Guilds, was enormous. But now, it became impossible to unite those who were already difficult to deal with.
In the first place, it would be impossible to unite the leaders of the other Dark Guilds, including me, the leader of the Dark Guild Goblin Gathering, with the leaders of the other Dark Guilds aiming for the next top spot.
Incidentally, although we are called the Dark Guild, our situation is actually different from the guilds on the surface. It is more like a clan. It is connected enough to be called a guild in terms of connections, and as a result, it has come to be known as the Dark Guild, though I don’t know who started calling it that.
This connection is the main reason why the Dark Guilds have not disappeared from the Empire, and the only common rule is the ‘sharing of information on the constable’.
[EDN: Police equivalent of medieval ages.]
Of course, each of the Dark Guilds has at least one informant in the Knights and Vigilantes, and the closer the mole’s location is to the center of the country, the more power that guild has, while the further away it is, the less say they have.
The rest was determined purely by the guild’s strength.
The Dark Guild Fenrir was connected not only with the Knights but also with the County of the Hohenheim family. There wasn’t an insider man, but rather, they had a connection with the family itself.
The fact that he had a connection to the Count meant that he could leak the country’s inside information, so from an intelligence and military perspective, the leader of the Dark Guild Fenrir was the actual top leader in the underworld.
“E-emergency! It’s an emergency. Everyone be on your guard!! Look outside! There are three d-d-d-dragons flying towards the capital!”
Just when I was thinking about the clash of arms over the Dark Guilds’ leader spot, a dirty little man, probably a lowly member of some Dark Guild, panicked and said that three dragons were flying towards the Imperial City.