"Something wrong?" Silas asked with a raised brow.
"Oh, Silas. Good, you're here." She muttered under her breath before a weird expression appeared on her face.
Her head quickly looked to the side where a door could be seen, It looked like a normal door, but they both knew it was a cultivation room.
"When did you leave the room?" She looked back at Silas with a weird expression.
"A day ago... Why?" He cocked his head to the side with a hint of curiosity.
"Wha-... Did you go to Syra again?" She asked with narrowed eyes.
"Oh... Yeah. This time she even found out who I am. She's quite perceptive, you know." Silas said with a small smile on his face.
"You let her find out about you?!" Jessica shouted.
"I didn't let her. She found out on her own." Silas shrugged as if it was no big deal.
"We both know that she wouldn't have found out if you didn't want her to."
"It wasn't my intention." Silas shrugged again.
"It probably wasn't, but I'm sure there was a part of you that wanted to tell her." Jessica crossed her arms, and Silas knew exactly what she was implying.
"Don't worry. She's a clever girl. I'm more than certain she understands who the enemy is." Silas smiled at Jessica.
"What about her friends? That damn bastard, Eclipse, came here, told me about the mission, and didn't even tell me that you showed up. All I know is that she had friends with her." Jessica sneered.
"Her friends?" Silas asked with a blank expression before a cold smile appeared on his face.
"Don't worry. They won't be telling anyone about what they saw that day."
"I know damn well that you didn't kill them, so what if they do tell someone?" Jessica questioned again, and she had begun to get on Silas' nerves by now.
"Then, we'll just have to hasten the plan." Silas said with an even colder voice as his smile faded the instant he opened his mouth.
"You're not strong-" She tried to argue once more, but a cold shiver ran down her spine.
"You think I'm afraid of wiping out a single family?" Silas asked and turned away from her to slump onto one of the chairs.
"Now. Who was that man?" Silas asked, making Jessica let out an audible sigh.
"He was a guild leader." She simply stated.
"Quite weak for a guild leader." Silas commented.
"Everyone is weak in your opinion." Jessica sneered.
"What did he want?" Silas finally asked after a significant pause.
"Same old, same old. He wanted to set up trading between his guild and Darkless City. I'm in charge of finances, so he thought he could get away with talking to me and completely avoid talking to Archie. Unfortunately for him, I didn't like him." She had a smile filled with pride on her face.
"He was quite ugly." Silas said without much thought.
"Hm? No, I meant I didn't like how he was treating me and my staff. Plus, he wasn't ugly at all. He was quite handsome actually." Jessica said with a perplexed expression.
"I didn't mean his looks, I meant his soul." Silas said and thought back to what his soul looked like.
It was quite ugly, to say the least.
Or, at least, that's what he thought.
Every action one did change their life force, even if the change was so minuscule that you wouldn't normally have the ability to see it.
Silas could see the man's life force, and he could tell that the man had killed many people before. His life force was tainted with blood, and while Silas was certain his might had looked worse when he was back on Earth, that was no longer the case due to the influence of the life equation.
Plus, his volition flame did take a large portion of his life force's visible area, so he doubted people who could see it would even see past the flame.
Silas and Jessica spoke for another half an hour. Not much of the conversation was particularly relevant to what they had discussed before; however, a large portion of it was related to what they would do in the near future.
"I've been thinking." Silas suddenly spoke up, causing Jessica to turn away from the board behind her desk and look at him.
"What's up?" She asked.
"Darkless expansion." Silas said two words, yet, Jessica was already in deep thought about it.
"Haven't we all thought about it?" Jessica sighed.
"I've gone through like, every scenario before I go to sleep. It's a nice dream to have, but I don't think it is something possible in our life time." She said with a chuckle.
"Well, unlike all of you, I've actually thought about it." Silas said and closed his eyes.
"I think we can expand Darkless, but not in a territorial way. I was thinking we could expand it through something like a guild."
"A guild?" Jessica couldn't help but raise a brow.
"Yep. What if we set up a guild building in all the cities around us. Actually, let's set up a guild building in all the cities that we have close relations with." Silas said.
"I don't think that would work. Darkless isn't a guild. The Greed faction in the closest think to a guild in the city. Darkless is more of a country or a kingdom. Every general made up a portion of the kingdom and had their own jobs. The Greed faction is both the guild and the bank of this kingdom. Do you get what I'm trying to say?" Jessica asked.
"That might be true, but that's not what I'm getting at." Silas sighed.
"Right now, we are quite weak. The only reason the kingdom hadn't attacked us at first was because of War, and right now, I'm also one of the reasons they're not doing anything. However, while before it might have been more of a one-sided alliance, with my emergence I'm sure the kingdom won't take long to attack us and try to end the organization.
So, before that happens, we need to expand our reach. The guilds themselves won't be sources of money or power. They will allow us to increase our political reach to those who don't know about us, or those who have been brainwashed by the kingdom's propaganda." Silas said before a smile appeared on his face.
"What do you think?"
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