Looking at the pitiful display Jim showed, Tristan was actually sort of disappointed. As a leader of a group composed entirely of silver adventurers, this guy was a total coward. Truly an attitude not befitting of a leader.

On the other hand, Jim became anxious when he saw Tristan didn't react to his words. "Please..!! I can help you.. Anything! Tell me what you need!"

Tristan certainly had the new girl to help, but more information from different sources would always be better.

"Alright, tell me what happened to the mines and tell me if you have any knowledge about the mayor's death."

The guy quickly spilled everything that he knew. He was tasked to check on the mines whenever he received reports from the workers. Therefore, the reason for him coming here.

"What is that orc lair? What are your plans with it?"

"I… I don't know, Lord... I really don't.."

Tristan's eyebrow rose when he heard Jim calling him lord. Well, he wasn't going to correct him though.

"Have you seen a female elf wandering around yesterday?"

Jim showed a confused expression for a moment before he realized what Tristan meant. "It wasn't me who was in charge of patrolling yesterday, Lord! It was the other golden adventurer called Myre but I don't think she saw anyone as there was no report."

Upon hearing information that essentially meant nothing, Tristan slowly became irritated. This bald guy was apparently just the muscle of the group, and definitely didn't have access to more important matters.

Jim noticed the change of Tristan's expression and panicked because of it. Therefore, he quickly told Tristan about the 40 adventurers who were also part of the operation. However, each person received different kinds of rewards from Connor, and that he was the mastermind of all.

Tristan clicked his tongue when he heard that. "Cih. That 'hero'. So much for the title of hero."

When Tristan asked him about information of the mayor's death, Jim answered that he wasn't sure about it.

To make sure what Jim said was accurate, Tristan turned to the blood sealed archer and double checked the information. As a result, the two's information was pretty much the same, except the mayor's death.

Therefore, Jim had earned a death glare from Tristan, and with enough 'motivation', he finally spoke everything he knew about the matter.

Jim was afraid talking about this matter because it involved in the death of a Mayor, which would automatically sentence to a death penalty when getting found out.

Fortunately, the man made the right decision when placed with options of death right now or later. He then began to tell Tristan that at the night when the mayor was murdered, the mayor was accompanied by their adventure group. And the last person they saw him meeting was, again, no other than Connor.

After asking a few more questions which answered with a shake of head, it seemed there was nothing else useful he could extract from this person other than his blood.

Now that Tristan had got what he wanted, he no longer needed two people. Between the two, it was obvious what his choice was. Tristan once again drew his sword.

The sight instantly terrified Jim and made him kneel on the ground, begging for his life.

"Please, have mercy!! I'm also your subject, am I?" Jim desperately pleaded, which quickly turned into rebuke when he saw Tristan wasn't stopping. "Y-you.. What kind of mayor are you!!"

Tristan ignored the plea and approached him, squatting in front of the kneeling gold-level adventurer and whispered.

"I feel like rewarding you with freedom."

Tristan's words made Jim's face lit up. The hope of escaping alive elated him to no end. However, Tristan wasn't finished yet.

He stared at the kneeling man and plastered a wicked smile. "But first I want you to say this word three times.."

"Anything I'll say anything"

"Say.. clown clown clown.. Ooo yes and wuss."

Jim's face instantly turned pale. He was lost in words, unable to say anything.

"Hmm.. so quiet aren't you now?"

Splat!

A head flew to the air as Jim's body dropped to the ground. And just like that, a gold-level adventurer breathed his last. The next moment, Tristan used [Blood Extraction].

[A mix of 900 med quality blood were found]

[Extracting and filtering blood]

[270 Blood Essence gained]

"Not bad.. Not shabby at all." Tristan commented as he saw the amount of Blood Essence he gained from one corpse. It was the first time he extracted a gold adventurer, and the harvest didn't disappoint him.

As for the 10 silver adventurers, they gave him 30 to 50 Blood Essence each, which made his Blood Essence reserve increase by 690.

[Blood Essence : 6310]

Tristan had easily concluded the matter, but there were too many complicated matters still left in the dark and had to be handled.

Even so, his main concern at the moment was Serene's safety. Therefore, he told Chieng to once again track her, following the new clue they got.

Tristan would go search her himself if he could. However, he knew that these adventurer problems had to be quickly dealt with. Otherwise, they would go out of control. . He truly couldn't afford to leave the town with such conditions.

He then asked the newly blood sealed archer about the location of their base. Which turned out to be an inn situated just next to the Adventurer Guild in the middle of the town.

The idea of fighting 30 plus adventurers in the middle of the town might not be the best idea. But Tristan still decided to do so as he believed this matter must be solved swiftly and efficiently.

Without further ado, Tristan quickly went back to the town together with Herrera, while Chieng went for the task Tristan gave him. In order to be safe, he called out Gafez, the town guard and Seth who tag along under the same package.

An hour later, Tristan was already standing in front of the said inn. At this exact moment, Uriel was seen rushing from the street, approaching him with an anxious expression.

"Tristan, you hired me to give you advice." Uriel quickly said even though he was out of breath. "Therefore, I advise you not to do whatever you are planning to do. These people have very tight and good relations with the town. They might be unreasonable at times, but they were the town's heroes in time of need. Thus, I suggest to stop, whatever it is. Please, think it through!"

Hearing that, Tristan turned to Uriel and looked at the latter with a wicked smile as he said, "all the more reason to pull these thorns out of my town!"

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Author Notes

Dear Blood Elf Monarch Reader, thank you for your support.

Within less than four months, The Novel has reached 12000 collections, 1.5 million views, and is part of the top 5 trending new novels. Its really really amazing how much love and support you gave to me and the Novel

My July Chapters are:

Blood Elf Monarch 63 chapters

Earth Greatest Magus 52 chapters

This July I managed to write a total of 115 chapters, 5 chapters short of my monthly target, but I hope to finally reach it in August.

In the next two days, I will publish 10 Blood Elf Monarch chapters.

But I apologize for these 10 chapters will all be on the privilege chapters.

As you know, the book joins Webnovel Spirity Award, the writing competition which main consideration for winning is how much coins/money a book makes. Therefore I would depend on your support in purchasing the privilege chapters.

PLEASE NOTE: These Privilege chapters are not mandatory. Only purchase the privilege if you want to support me and the book further. But I really hope you understand that these privileged readers are the people who keep the story going, hence later will be enjoyed by the fast pass reader as well.

If you really wish to support me more, please do so by:

Reading my other two novels Earth Greatest Magus and Doomsday Pillars. Which all three are under the same universe, just different times and places and will eventually intertwine later.

The Earth Greatest Magus particularly will explain a lot of the questions you might find in this novel.

It is my wish to have the new novel Blood Elf Monarch win the competition. I hope with the promise of adaptation, it will make my dream/ our dream of having the whole universe; Emery, Tristan, and Alex from the Three novels become graphics or animation will come true.

Today I can finally and confidently say that my wife has fully supported me in being a writer. With this, I hope I can give even better content for you and all my supporters.

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