Going back to the mansion, in one of the rooms, the core members of the Darkwave criminal organization are having their own meeting after receiving the copy of the letter of agreement proposal given by the principality nobles that they are cooperating with. Their request and demand have been clearly written on the proposal and now it's their turn to make an answer to these proposals and sign them. Even in this day, a well organized criminal organization Darkwave is no different from a corporation that need to sign this things or that things, their difference with other normal cooperation is that they only do some little evil like stealing and assassination, not that much different from a drug cartel in the old days, but more organized.
Seven people can be seen sitting on a long table in this room, a person that seems to be the boss sitting alone, three people sitting on the right wing, and another three sitting on the left wing of the table. They will always wear masks when meeting like this, no joke, being a criminal always needs a lot of precaution, who knows that some noble is leaving some hidden camera in this mansion, they are borrowing an archduke mansion so they need to always be careful if it's not their own hideout.
The Darkwave will always be careful when cooperating with others. One day, their normal members are not careful enough and his real identity and hidden identity have been found out by some righteous church members, so they are acting more carefully these days. Even in this place, Xenolith Principality, there's also a church branch with a cardinal guarding it. Those church members always act so righteous and open their eyes wide to their surroundings, always looking so suspicious of other people. Even all the people in this room feel a little afraid when meeting some church personnel.
The church personnel can be described with one word, friendly. They always walk in groups, always acting so righteous, helping people left and right, always friendly and talk a lot like they want to extract information from the other person. That's what the Darkwave always views the church as. The real lunatics that are worse than the Dusk fanatics.
One day, the Dusk organization bombing the principality, many people died in those incidents, kids became orphans, innocent people died brutally without having any chance to save themselves, many principality noble get angry and didn't get any chance to catch even one of them. But those lunatics does, they suddenly catch all member who's doing those bombing incidents, and they send them back to the holy one.
Even though the holy one always teaches them to always be forgiveful and benevolent, when things go down the drain, you won't know what those lunatics will do next. The criminal organization still remembered those poor souls, the Darkwave can even hear their screams somehow until this day. Maybe not all the holy one believers like that, but their hardliner will.
Some of their criminal organization members would even pray to the holy one when interacting with the church personnel. Even though they are not a believer to the holy one teaching, some cold sweat still formed on their forehead and trembled weak legs cannot be evaded when interacting with those lunatics.
Actually, their organization didn't do such extreme things like the Dusk criminal organization. They only steal some resource from the rich and maybe some assassination of bad criminal or corrupt officials and confiscate their assets for the continuation of their organization and many people. Even though their hands are also not clean, they can actually keep to their principle to wash away the dirt that cannot be taken down by the church or the federation. Some people have that kind of immunity, maybe a certain high rank count that is smuggling and never get caught or many others.
Moreover, doing this kind of activity can also grant them an additional reward such as SC that have been an important currency nowadays. They can buy many things from all over the universe and increase their strength. Their members will also help to defend the border if something happens and war breaks out. From the current overall view, their organization should be more normal than the fanatics and the lunatics.
But, in every organization, there will always be some bad seeds. A bear wearing a wolf costume between a pack of wolves. A traitor will always hide in the middle of the crowd. Especially in a huge organization like the Dusk. Moreover, some years ago the demons also could make a contract with other creatures, this also happened inside their organization. They understand that their members main objective is also those SC, so it won't surprise the core member if that happens.
For those who still didn't get caught killing an innocent person or doing something really bad to humanity, they can still stay in the organization. But if they get caught, they will be hunted down by the core members. Some of those who manage to escape, choose to join the Dusk criminal organization. So, beside stealing and assassination, they also inderectly nurturing an experienced criminal for the Dusk criminal organization. This is why they were also wanted on the federation criminal list.
After opening the proposal letter of cooperation and reading its contents, the person in the middle that should be the boss passes the letter to the other member and they also read it one by one.
The person in the middle who was wearing a black mask and a black cloak spoke after they finished reading the agreement proposal. A nice voice of a young girl can be heard when the figure with the black mask speaks. Her figure looks a little small just like a child.
"How's your view of their offer in our cooperation, should we agree to their demands? I personally think that it's not bad but they are asking too much SC for a little help."
After the black mask finished her sentence, the figure with the purple mask and purple cloak spoke. A middle aged man's voice can be heard.
"I can agree not to disturb the other high nobles, I don't want to mess with the grand duke territory, it's unnecessary creating an enemy out of nowhere, and that's a logical path that we should take even if they don't add it in their demand."
Another figure with a yellow mask and yellow cloak added, a middle aged woman's voice can be heard.
"But for those counts and barons, they shouldn't care that much, as long as we found some of those counts or barons dirty deeds then it's good enough for us to act against them."
The figure with the blue mask and blue robe started his report and analyzed those things. A young man's voice can be heard from the figure in blue.
"Our spy on the kingdom and empire have also reported about our next target. A captain in the kingdom seems to have been seen to blackmail some people and destroy some property in their house because they cannot pay the money. A bishop with some deacons on the church branch in the empire have been caught cooperating together to swindle and steal some money given by the people for the orphans in their church branch. This is the picture of evidence of what they did."
This is a figure wearing a green mask and green cloak. A playful and energetic young girl's voice can be heard from the figure in green.
"This is a good chance since the pope won't be active on duty anymore, the church seems to not realize that their lower rank member started to become more uncontrollable and rotting slowly because no one would have thought a church member would commit such an inhuman behavior."
This is another figure in red. He's wearing a red mask and red cloak. He has a large body size where his muscles can even be seen even though he is covered with a cloak. The voice of a youthful young man can be heard from the figure in red.
"We've been in this business for too long to be surprised by how low a human can be. I agree with the proposal, but you are right we can counter offer their demands and exchange it with something else. We can steal it from our next target. We should rather discuss who we will send to clean them."
Black Mask: "Then please wait a second, I'll send a message to the archduke about our counter demand."
After waiting for a few minutes, the black figure communication device received the notification that there's an incoming message which has not been read from the archduke.
Black Mask: "The Archduke agrees with our condition. Then it's time to make a copy of our proposal agreement and sign it with a simple stamp of our color which marks the start of our collaboration."
Then the member uses their color stamp to sign the letter agreement of the cooperation with the high rank nobles.