"..."
Her words held logic, and with her family's big masters, other city leaders gathered here agreed. Yet there was a catch.
These five weren't just part of the inner circle of the city, but leaders of the grand five factions here. They had lots of masters supporting and following their orders.
If they started a fight against them, then the city would usher under great turmoil. At the same time, the city was established for a long time, enough for all the factions' forces to mix together and work in different areas and do various tasks.
They could handle five, could handle hundreds, but not tens of thousands!
"If we left them untouched, then they'll unleash hell over everyone," Lara was already sick of repeating her words, speaking about the same point over and over again.
She knew the city leaders got a good point, but the risk of letting those masters alone was lethal! She and others grasped the gravity of this tough situation and knew there wasn't an easy way out of here.
"How about this…" just when everyone was gloomy, Sloth, who got invited here by Anjie, spoke up, "We can record their interrogation using recording crystals. If they get convicted, then we can distribute these as a way to calm down their forces and explain everything in great detail."
"It may work… But…"
"I doubt after attacking and killing their leaders, these masters will listen to us…"
"We don't need to kill them, we can just detain them and hold them for trial," Anjie suddenly said, "back in the capital, we did that to avoid any big problems with masters holding power and have others to follow."
"Hmm… Why do I feel this task is getting harder and harder? Don't tell me he predicted all this!" Thomas sighed, before adding, "I can also track their karma, and see if they hid these crystals anywhere. I don't think they will carry these alongside them while walking in the city."
"You are the lad with the special ability to see karma, right?" a few city leaders didn't meet Thomas before, but they already heard about his name.
He was quite famous for his rare and unique spirit element.
What Thomas suggested was something that they needed. And so they started to discuss further details about what they should do, decided to take it quite slowly and not rush things up.
"Do you think William will accept such a delay in action?" Berry spoke up after the meeting ended. They kept talking for half a day, formulating a general plan first, before thoroughly speaking about tons of little details.
They decided to do two things at the same time. First, they'd spread the news about spotting monsters at places around the city. They'd use this as an excuse to fortify the city defences, summoning up everyone, before they'd start the next phase of the plan.
They'd then announce the formation of long-distance scout teams, sending all of the high-end masters out. This might seem risky and dangerous, considering the fact that Lara's words might be true, and these five would release endless streams of monsters toward the city.
And yet they agreed to do it so they could distribute the forces loyal to these five leaders apart from here, apart from each other.
Like this, they'd end up having the five leaders separated from their top and elite masters. They'd send many masters who were loyal to them, and if the five leaders' top masters tried to cause trouble, they'd all collaborate and bring them down.
At the same time, they'd use the excuse of going out to check on the various scout teams to spread the five leaders apart, and take them away from the city, before confronting them separately.
This was the best plan they came up with. Yet it was going to take at least five days up to one week to fully execute. During this, Thomas would move around the city, looking for traces of these five leaders, trying to find any place they might have hidden these crystals at.
"I've already spoken with him," Lara paused, looking at Anjie as if she was boasting about doing this in front of her, "and he is cool with it. He likes the plan, and wants us to keep ourselves inside the city just in case."
"I speak with him all the time," Anjie didn't like how Lara looked towards her, crossed her arms, and retorted back.
"We all speak with him," Ro laughed, "so it's not a big deal."
"Anyway, let's go around and meet these five leaders first," Lang knew if the girls started their late trend of competing with each other over William, then they'd waste lots of time without doing anything else, "we have a message to deliver to each, remember?"
"I just need to check them once, and then I can mark their karma threads and look for them later on," Thomas shrugged as if this was something easy to do.
Thomas grew to be a dark gold grade master, at mid-stage on top of that. During all this time, he kept diligently upgrading and evolving his powers, gaining lots of improvement in the techniques William taught him before.
One of these was about a special ability to mark someone's karma thread and then look for this thread anywhere in the world, even if that person wasn't present with him.
Before, Thomas had to be with the person to see through his karma. Even if that person was far away from him, as long as he could see him, Thomas could see the karma threads belonging to that person or monster.
This had great limitations, one that got lifted off the moment he trespassed into the dark gold grade. He agreed with the other leaders to meet these five traitors, check their karma threads, and mark them, before searching the entire city.
Few masters suggested he had to go out as well. Many masters used to go out to venture into the world, to do their own business out there, or even to chill out or train.
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