After understanding the situation, Violet returned to the small town the next day with Kars and Grian.
Despite the town currently being without a mayor, everything continued to run normally: the guards stood at the gates with their weapons, the tax officer walked the streets with his box.
Within the box were the tools he used to weigh gold coins. He was an exacting person who was extremely meticulous.
Each gold coin had to have the exact weight it was meant to have. If the weight was off, the shopkeeper had to cut out the extra powder from the coins and hand it in.
Everyone in the town lived on as usual that day, until they saw Violet.
The mercenaries were slaughtered and humiliated right in front of Black Crow Castle, and that was also where the mayor had disappeared.
All the clues pointed towards Violet. Other than her, no one else had such power.
When the townspeople saw Violet enter, they whispered amongst themselves, referring to her derogatorily as a butcher or witch.
