Synopsis

The chapter starts with a seemingly trivial drinking bet initiated by the captain to extract information. The setting then shifts to a lively dinner, where the main characters discuss their narrow escape from the ASO Stronghold bandits, highlighting the unusual reasons the bandits spared them. A mysterious and wealthy stranger overhears their conversation, offering to pay for their meal in exchange for more information. The chapter closes with the captain and stranger in a private room at a brothel discussing the Murim Alliance and Green Forest faction and the importance of the Green Forest Cardinal Chief, setting up a new bet for the captain.