Along with a small number of elite Ghost members, David had infiltrated the Northern regions, attacked small villages, and killed civilians. They had killed the men and the elderly on site while the children and the women were dragged and killed elsewhere in order to create rumors of slave traders. Of course, this was because there was the chance of getting caught if they dragged the women and children around, so David and his men killed them and cleaned up the bodies so they wouldn’t be found. It was only natural that Duke Palan couldn’t find them no matter how much he had enforced the checkpoint searches. In the first place, David and the Ghosts weren’t actually slave traders and didn’t drag slaves with them, so they had been able to leisurely pass through the checkpoints. 

When the anxiety began to spread throughout the Northern region, David had sent out spies to raise the people’s uneasiness. And when the anxiety reached its peak, he purposefully released some of the captured women and dealt the finishing blow. It goes without saying that he had deliberately leaked information in front of the enslaved women who were supposed to be released; it had...