Reincarnation: The Soul of Dashul

Chapter 221 Bounty Guild

A towering tall building rises from the ground in the prosperous center of the Mavaria district city. This is the building of the Eltar family. Although it is not the tallest building nearby, it is also very majestic. It stands in the night like a never-sleeping guardian, quietly overlooking the city below.

The lights at night cast a mysterious veil over the El Tal Building. The outline of the building is looming in the bright colors, like a flowing painting. The glass exterior of the building reflects the colorful lights, as if embracing the prosperity of the entire city.

In stark contrast to the vibrant and beautiful night outside, the president of the International Contract Agency, Philip von Eltal, had a gloomy face and his expression changed in a very strange way.

Philip's expression was first surprise, then anger, and then astonishment and confusion. It seemed that what he was facing was incredible even for this worldly-wise president.

"You mean... after searching through all the channels, there are only a few records of the actions of the 'Six Charms Lord', and no other related information?" Philip's eyes were suspicious, and there was still anger in his tone.

“President, yes! The operation records are also missing a lot of information, especially the missions over the past ten years. Even the locations are vague, and there are not even approximate coordinates…” Philip was sitting on a high chair, with his confidants reporting on their work below him.

"Which bounty organization does this Six Charms Reverend belong to?" Philip asked carefully.

"This person is still working for the Moxia Hermits of the Qianlis Empire. He is very mysterious and not very active. Even the Moxia Hermits' headquarters does not have his detailed identity information, and we can't find him. We can only wait for him to take the initiative to accept the mission, and then find a way to track him down." Philip's trusted subordinates continued to report.

"Is it possible that even the files of the bounty mission back then can't be found?" Philip's expression became more and more surprised.

"I have contacted a high-level friend of Moxia Hermit, and he was also shocked. According to him, if we hadn't asked him this time, he wouldn't have known that when Moxia Hermit was moving its headquarters, a traffic accident occurred while transferring file scrolls, resulting in some files being burned." This subordinate felt incredible even as he spoke.

"Is their file system so backward? Don't they have magical backups similar to our files?" Philip was shocked. How could such a low-level mistake occur in a bounty organization, one of the top five bounty organizations in the world?

"The Moxia Hermit used to record archives in a material way, either paper documents or cotton and linen scrolls. There were almost no modern methods. It was only after joining the International Bounty Alliance two years ago that we introduced the archive system with the highest security factor."

"Okay, you go down first. I don't want anyone else to know about this..." Philip then realized that what Ledo asked him to do for help was definitely not that simple. In order to protect Ledo, he had to make a stern statement.

"Yes, sir!" This trusted subordinate was naturally very sensible. He took his leave without saying a word and disappeared into the room.

"Interesting. I wasn't very interested in it at first. But if that's the case, I really need to investigate it in depth. In this era, information is the greatest wealth! It seems... I have to ask the Council of Elders for help." Philip rubbed his temples gently, took a short break, and pondered something.

Since ancient times, wherever there are people, there is the underworld. In the underworld, there has always been a livelihood of taking money from others to help them get rid of disasters. All over the world, there are also mercenary organizations of varying sizes, specializing in carrying out some dangerous or secret tasks for their employers.

With the development and progress of civilization, some scattered mercenary organizations have formed large-scale bounty organizations around the world according to differences in region, culture, concepts and creeds. These bounty organizations have different creeds and rules, and can be said to be extremely different and each has its own merits. There is both cooperation and confrontation between them.

In the long course of history, the nature of bounty organizations has also changed greatly. They have transformed from being hidden in the dark to being modern organizations today. Their business scope has expanded infinitely, from the earliest single hunting to all kinds of bizarre bounty tasks, including investigation, search and rescue, escort, pickup and purchasing on behalf of others. They are simply all-purpose errand running organizations. There is nothing they cannot do, only things they cannot imagine.

However, the most profitable core business of each bounty organization is still hunting and assassination. The most respected people in the organization are still the shadow assassins. They are all top bounty hunters, and they can even perfectly assassinate those high-level ninjas of the Qinchuan Empire.

The six empires and even the Barrett Alliance did not dare to ignore this force. For thousands of years, there has been endless debate on whether the existence of the bounty organization is reasonable. There have been attacks and supports. In the end, after the competition in politics, economy, culture and power, various parties could only allow it to continue to develop within certain world rules.

The International Contract Agency of the Dashur Empire, the Wick Sky Hotel of the Saens Empire, the Shadowless Brotherhood of the Wenpaia Empire, the Tokugawa Company of the Qinchuan Empire and the Moxia Hermits of the Qianlis Empire are listed as the five major bounty organizations on the planet Barrett. The remaining small and medium-sized groups have been gradually incorporated into these five organizations and have long formed an institutionalized organization.

Two years ago, after a long period of competition and confrontation, the elders' councils within the five major bounty organizations all unanimously proposed to establish an international bounty alliance organization to share various types of information and bounty tasks, seek common ground while reserving differences, and become stronger together. The International Bounty Alliance Guild came into being.

After the establishment of the International Bounty Alliance Guild, the Elders' Council of the five major bounty organizations elected the presidents of their organizations as standing committee members of the alliance guild. Whenever a major international bounty mission or dispute arises, the five standing committee members will discuss together and make decisions by voting.

Although this process is full of controversy and compromise, it has indeed brought great convenience to every bounty hunter. The exchange of information about bounty missions alone has increased the completion rate of bounty missions by more than ten percentage points, and the efficiency of completing missions has directly increased by dozens of times. The profit amount and international influence of the five major bounty organizations have also risen sharply.

In the face of huge interests, the so-called disputes and compromises become unimportant. Of course, there are some basic principles that cannot be easily changed no matter how these bounty organizations evolve and develop.

Every bounty organization has strict confidentiality regulations and measures within it. It can be said that confidentiality is an important condition for the survival and development of a bounty organization, and it is also one of the principles of such an organization.

Even if the International Bounty Alliance Guild is established, the five major organizations still strictly adhere to the previous confidentiality principles when sharing intelligence and bounty missions. After carefully examining the bounty qualifications of the task issuer, they will not reveal any information about the bounty offerer. Often only the top level of the organization has the authority to access this information.

Philip's confidant was his permanent representative in the International Bounty Alliance Guild. His authority in the alliance guild was second only to that of the president. However, even this confidant, after using all his means, could not find any information about the mission of the Six Charms Lord, let alone track down the person who issued the bounty mission that year.

Philip had a keen insight and immediately realized that this was a very tricky matter, far from being as simple as Ledo said. A public inquiry would only alert the enemy and might even cause trouble. Since Philip had promised Ledo, he would not shirk his responsibility. He decided to come forward in person and continue to investigate the matter in secret.