"How are things going?" the old man asked.
"Except for a few complications that came, everything was going as planned", the middle-aged man replied.
"Hmph", the old man said nothing.
Even if he wanted to make sure everything went accordingly, it wasn't possible to have a hundred percent. Things happen, things that he can't control.
For him, the final result is all that matters. Everything should be in place when the time comes and he could exact his revenge on the big three. They wouldn't even see what happened before their power plummets.
The grand tournament which they named, will be where a lot of talents from the three big nations would assemble within a year.
This would make it the perfect place to exact his revenge. For what they did to his family, he is going to do ten, no hundred times worse.
He decided to kill everyone that would be present at the event.