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The appearance of the Silver Frost Brotherhood to cause trouble was not beyond Matthew's expectations.
Because he had done his homework beforehand, Matthew didn't think that the Ash Creatures were that difficult to deal with. He had specially pulled so many people along mainly to guard against potential attacks from evil organizations.
As of now, the significance of the Scar of the Dead was becoming more and more obvious.
It was one of the tentacles of the Void Ruler, Yurkus, who was a 'great being' believed in by the Order of Calamity. The latter was dedicated to reviving all traces of Yurkus in the prime material plane.
The Evil Art Master Anderson's previous war against Rolling Stone Town was not to destroy the town but to use the war to create a large number of deaths near the Scar of the Dead.
From this point of view, the Order of Calamity's goal had been achieved.