The entire team of fifty were annihilated, each dying in a strange manner.
A little farther outside the town, what was originally a backup team that had meant to aid their brothers in the robbery was now a pile of dead bodies. They were attacked and robbed instead by a dozen grey-clothed men, and not one was left alive.
Eldest Imperial Princess was furious and sent the order to investigate this shocking case thoroughly, but it was raining so heavily that night that all traces of evidence had been washed away, and the only evidence left was the smashed courtyard fence in the Li family's home, as well as a huge hole in the courtyard, clearly indicating that the perpetrator was an extremely skilled martial artist.
After the Amethyst Cape Knights investigated the scene, they accurately reported back that the perpetrator was not a regular martial artist; they suspected him or her to be on equal standing among the top ten martial artists.
