Bert was a soldier belonging to the faction of the Utra nation in the archipelago.
He had a family but working as a guard in island one hundred and sixty didn't pay him much, he struggled to provide cultivation resources to his children.
That's why he become an informer of the Hive when the chance came, that underground organization gave him generous bribes for his services.
Yet, the representatives of the continent were trying their best to suppress any organization that still aimed for the independence of the archipelago.
Of course, they wouldn't go easy on those that worked for the Hive.
Bert was careless and his identity as an informer was discovered, he was forced to make a deal to save his family, it was either that or months of torture.
'It didn't play out so bad, the continent has sent capable cultivators after all.'
Those were his thoughts when he gazed at the guards protecting him.
