Word spread through the Gereign Region.
"The Carnil Mafia and the Vale Syndicate have entered a cold war."
As of yet, hostilities had not been broken out. However, everyone even remotely informed could sense the friction.
Competition over resources, trade routes, and skirmishes. These things all pointed to a broader underlying tension.
Yet none of them knew that the origin of this tension was two red herrings created by a mastermind that had foreseen all of this.
Rui, on the other hand, did not care.
He had planted seeds of conflict because they had been worth the effort. If they panned out into a grand fire, that was great.
If they merely smoldered, that too was fine.
He was much more focused on something else.
The combat data of the three high-grade Martial Seniors in the Gereign base of the Carnil Mafia.
When he revised all the information that the Beggar's Sect had on them…
