"A few months after the incident at the Prison Realm with the dragons, there was another breakout at a maximum-security prison, and several criminals escaped.
The forces responsible for imprisoning them placed high monetary bounties on their heads, and with hundreds of them on the run and each bounty offering enormous rewards, countless eyes turned toward the matter as bounty hunters and mercenaries began to mobilise en masse.
Even Sir John's Adventurers joined in, using the bounties as Rank upgrade tests for both Adventurers and Mercenaries."
Ignoring the vampires who bowed to them as they passed through the corridors, Rowena continued.
"Sir Richard had just cut off contact when this happened, and within a month, there was a sudden craze about bounty hunting as many others began placing bounties on criminals and targets for elimination, seeing it as a way to have these targets dealt with without expending their own forces or losing combatants in the process.
