"Though I must say, you are quite unlucky that you have to use your Favor on someone as useless as him,"
Rislith spoke as she glanced at Alistair.
Alistair glared at Rislith and burst out,
"W-Why are you here!?"
"Hm? What do you mean?"
"This is the matter between two assassin halls, how can the Lust State involve themselves in it!? Are you not afraid of the Order!? Or are you trying to revolt against the Order?" Alistair decided to act strong.
In the end, Rislith was still just a deputy leader, she wasn't a true leader of the Lust State, it could even be said that she was inexperienced. Alistair wanted to take his chance.
His plan wasn't all that bad, this type of intimidation might work on some, however, in front of Rislith, all of this was useless.
Eisheth, the Head of the Lust State, was a lazy ruler, she had left all her responsibilities on Rislith's shoulders. Rislith was the true leader of Lust State in everything but name.
Insignificant tricks like these would never work on someone like her.
"Hmm? Did the Order release a new set of rules? Since when did we have to give the details about all the Assassin Hall members to the Central Assassin Hall?"
Rislith questioned back.
"Huh?" Alistair frowned.
"W-What are you talking about?"
"Is it not clear yet? I am a member of ExceedoGenesis Assassin Hall. Is there something wrong with that?" Rislith spoke and Alistair and his sister widened their eyes in horror.
"W-What is this nonsense! You are clearly Rislith Lust, the deputy leader of the Lust State! Why would you be a part of a new clan!?" Alistair's sister couldn't control herself and burst out.
"That is my own decision that has nothing with you, isn't it?" Rislith just replied as if she was saying the most obvious thing in the world.
"Then do you wish the entire Yrniel learns that the Deputy Leader of the Lust State is serving an Emperor Stage Human? Do you really want to shame your Clan like that?" Alistair spoke.
It was an underlying threat.
Of course, it didn't matter.
A threat from the weak was nothing more than a source of entertainment, a joke.
The real threat always comes from the strong,
"When did I say that I plan to reveal it though?"
Rislith questioned with a confused look on her face.
Alistair and her sister frowned for a while, unable to understand what Rislith was talking about, however, seeing that slight smile on her face, they finally realized what she was trying to say.
"The truth wouldn't be revealed if there is no one left who knows about it."
Alistair and his sister's bodies trembled in fear when they heard Rislith's words.
This was a real threat.
Alistair and his sister lowered their heads, in front of absolute strength, they didn't show any form of resistance.
"Heh." Seeing their reaction, Nux chuckled.
To think these two were acting so bold and mighty just a few minutes ago.
How pathetic.
Then, Nux glanced at the Leader of Shadow of Silence and,
"Anyways, shall we start our negotiations?" Nux questioned.
"…" Alistair glanced at Nux's face and didn't say anything.
He waiting for Nux to present his conditions.
"As you know, Negotiations only benefit the stronger party or the party that has the upper hand,
In this case, I don't think we need to say but we are stronger than you, any one of these women are strong enough to destroy you in a battle." Nux repeated the words Alistair spoke before. He was clearly mocking him.
Alistair, however, didn't react, he just continued to observe Nux. He wanted to hear Nux's condition.
"Anyways, the condition is simple, you will release my Assassins, the 17 Great Sages and 20 Sages that are left, you will be giving them to me, and last but not least, you will be signing this."
Nux spoke as he threw a scroll toward Alistair.
Alistair opened the scroll, soon, however, his expression changed.
"This is…"
"Contract of Silence."
Nux nodded.
A contract that was officially recognized by the Ancestral Order. Breaking this contract was no different than becoming the enemies of the Ancestral Order, and as said before, going against the Ancestral Order was simply suicide.
"You are not to speak of these events that happened inside this Inn to anyone," Nux spoke.
Alistair was finally done reading a contract, and soon, his face contorted into a frown,
"I do not gain anything out of this."
"You do,
You gain the right to live." Nux just shrugged.
"You bastard!"
Suddenly, Alistair's sister burst up.
"You think you can bring the Vice Leader of the Lust State and can do whatever you want like this!? Release your assassins, giving you the members of our Assassin Hall and then you even dare to ask us to sign the contract?
Do you think the world runs around you just because you have the support of someone stronger!? What kind of man are you!? Don't you have any shame!? Depending on others in order to survive, why not just directly beg in front of us, we might just let you be without her intervention."
"Haah! The Irony.
Aren't you the one who is using her brother to avenge her son's death? Wasn't your son the one who used his uncle to get whatever he wanted? I have rumors that he had killed quite a lot of people because of his pettiness.
Heh, kill my ass, he just hid behind his uncle's ass while others did all the work. Both you mother and son are useless pieces of shit with nothing of their own. You have been acting like the 'world runs around you just because you have the support of someone stronger.'
And now you are crying because your enemy's backer is stronger than your own."
Nux laughed.
Then, he pointed at the woman and his smile turned demonic,
"Let's do this.
You are a Sage Stage Cultivator yourself,
I, the murderer of your son, am standing right in front of you. None of us will involve our backer in this battle,
Come at me.
Make a move and avenge your son, if you do that, you can get away.
Do keep this in your mind though,
I won't hold back."
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢