"What are they here for?" Ben wondered.
But those Erune nobles had already slowed down not far from Ben, seemingly observing him. Ben actually knew these people; the leader was a middle-aged man, thin-faced and slightly limping — he seemed to be called Count Oting, a senior general from the Northern Army.
The six men and two women behind him all seemed to be non-influential nobles from the Royal Capital. Ben couldn't remember each of their names, but he recognized their faces.
These people were basically Royalists, at least centrists, but some belonged to the traditional Kingdom faction before the split. This further confirmed to Ben that they had been sent into the Black Forest before the internal conflict of Erune.
But how did they learn about the Lion Heart Sword?
