The members of the society of thieves are the leaders of very gang. They were in a meeting considering what to do to Arthur when they were attacked.
Those two people said that Arthur thought nothing of them to the thieves and thugs that were still alive after the two of them raided their meeting. So not only did Arthur kill many of them, he also humiliated the ones he didn't kill.
It was after this event that Arthur had a public fight with Master Sky Claw. Some of these criminals were in the crowd, so they witnessed why Arthur wasn't afraid of them.
Arthur was strong, but they were still not willing to give up on revenge. Unfortunately, going after him would only mean losing their lives in vain.
But things got worse. Arthur continued to push their buttons and humiliate them by wiping out the gangs in the city. He disrupted their business many times and finally caused the collapse of organized crime in the city.
Clearly, Arthur has done many things that they should hate him for. So it is reasonable that all they felt when they saw him was hate.
Fortunately, they were not the only ones who hated Arthur. The damage to their livelihood also drew the attention of their sponsor in the Dyson family.
Their sponsor wasn't as tolerant as them. He told them to get rid of Arthur as soon as possible. So they have been trying to assassinate him ever since.
They hired many killers to enter his house at night and kill him in his sleep. But none of the killers returned from their mission. Not only did they fail to kill him, but they also lost their lives in the process.
They still haven't given up, though. They continued to watch him, looking for an opportunity to get rid of him.
They were hoping to find out a weakness of his that they could use against him. While they didn't find one, they found a good opportunity to kill him when they saw that he had signed up to be a hunter.
Today, they followed him all the way to Death's Door and back. They were able to confirm that he was truly hunting.
Now that they have confirmed the opportunity they were looking for, they went to inform their sponsor.
Their sponsor was in a restaurant having a feast. He was a middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes.
The waiters and servers in the restaurant were very polite to him. They were walking on eggshells around him. Some of them were so afraid of him that they were shaking.
He liked their behavior very much because he doesn't get respect from his family. As an unfavored, talentless person, many people in the family look down on him even though he is a true son.
A waitress was sitting on his lap, and he was fondling her breasts when the leaders of the society of thieves came over to inform him about Arthur's situation.
When he saw the person that had come to see him, he sent the waitress and the other servers away. Only the two of them remained in the room.
He remained sitting while the visitor didn't dare to sit without permission.
He asked the man, "Have you confirmed it?"
The man bowed and said, "I have confirmed it, my lord. He has officially become a hunter and will be hunting in the green forest."
Jake nodded in satisfaction. He drank a cup of wine before saying, "I want him gone. This time I don't want any failure. So use your best ability. If you don't have what it takes to kill him, hire it."
"I don't care how you manage it. All that matters is that he dies. I want him dead in at most a month."
The man bowed again and said, "It will be done, my lord."
Jake smiled and said, "You may go."
The gang leader bowed for the last time before leaving. His show of respect made Jake feel happy. But then he remembered Arthur's actions and frowned in displeasure.
He doesn't have much talent for cultivation, and he can't bear physical hardship, but he is smart. He used that smartness to create channels for smuggling and human trafficking in the city.
For example, there are gangs who lend people money by choice or by force and then use the owed money as a pretext to force them into slavery.
These practices are clearly illegal. Anyone with average intelligence can identify the issue with this. But their illegal activities were allowed to continue because someone from the Dyson family is supporting the gangs.
He is the person supporting the gangs. All he needs to do is say a few words to the law enforcement force of the city. In exchange for his help, he receives a portion of the profits of the gangs.
Those channels that he built helped him to earn a lot of money. It was money that he needed urgently since he didn't have much support from his family. So imagine his anger when Arthur appeared and began wrecking things.
Every gang that Arthur wiped out was a section of his channels that was cut off. Every section that was cut off was a source of income that he lost. So Arthur's actions made him very angry.
Not only was Arthur not showing him appropriate respect, but he was also cutting off his lifeblood. Those were two offenses that he couldn't let go.
Normally, as members of the Dyson family, if there is a dispute between them, they should sit down to talk about it and negotiate a truce. This is what is enforced in the family because infighting is not allowed.
So he should have spoken to Arthur and asked him to stop his actions. But he didn't want to negotiate with a bastard, so he sent out people to kill Arthur.
There is also the fact that he is very jealous of Arthur's talent. It made him sneer and say, "A dead genius is no genius."