Chapter 1306 - The Ring of Roses (1/2)

Chapter 1306: The Ring of Roses

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Wilder paced back and forth anxiously in the room. A few minutes later, he summoned his trusted subordinate, and stared at the man with bloodshot eyes.

“Go meet Mafa Merlin, and tell him everything you know. Make it clear to him that we have nothing to do with any of this. As for those idiots, they might think they can do anything they want because they are not within the bounds of Neverwinter City. They’re in great trouble!”

Shocked, the subordinate turned around, and was about to leave. At this moment, Wilder gritted his teeth.

“In the name of the Lodney Family, send words that whoever killed the leader of a material supplier family has violated the rules of the game!”

The subordinate left the room in fright. Seeing how Wilder was gnashing his teeth, he didn’t dare to say a word.

In no more than half an hour, Wilder’s trusted subordinate had come to Neverwinter City with a teleportation array. The members of the family in town immediately directed him to Lin Yun before the latter found Dean Gandaph.

“Sir Merlin, please wait a moment. I’m a representative of the Lodney Family—”

Before he finished, Lin Yun frowned and interrupted him. “The Lodney Family? Are you following me?”

The subordinate hurriedly lowered his back with cold sweat.

“Sir Merlin, please make no mistake. I’m here at the request of Mr. Wilder to inform you of certain things. Mr. Wilder is very angry about what happened to the Gilded Rose, and which doesn’t follow the rules of the game at all. It jeopardizes the interests of the Gilded Rose and those of the Lodney Family.”

Lin Yun’s eyes glittered. He looked at the subordinate without changing his expression.

“Oh? You may continue.”

The subordinate was slightly relieved. He looked around vigilantly, and confirmed that nobody was around. Finally, he spoke in a low voice with mana.

“Sir Merlin, as a matter of fact, the Lodney Family was tricked too. An elder of our family was fooled by someone who claimed that the Gilded Rose didn’t have any strength, and only had some relics. They also said that the Gilded Rose was the Lodney Family’s competitor…

“That’s why the Lodney Family’s elder took action against the Gilded Rose. Then, we were unable to stop while things escalated. Mr. Wilder is very regretful. Due to the tricked elder, we’ve suffered a heavy loss, including the Gilded Rose and Sir Merlin’s friendship.

“This time, the two b*tches came, and tried to deceive our family again, but Mr. Wilder wasn’t tricked at all. He would’ve caught the two b*tches, but unfortunately, they were too strong. We could only drive them away.

“Afterwards, the Gilded Rose’s convoys were attacked, and the leader of a material supplier family was killed, which is terrible. Mr. Wilder asked me to inform you that those two b*tches are both at least on level 3 of the Heaven Rank, and hail from the south of the Odin Kingdom. But we don’t know which organization they’re from. The spies we sent to follow them were all killed…”

Hearing that, Lin Yun considered it quietly. The south of the Odin Kingdom? When did he piss off anyone from the south of the Odin Kingdom? No wonder they didn’t hesitate to cause such havoc. They had nothing to lose here. Besides, there were many conflicts between a lot of forces in the south of the Odin Kingdom and those in the north.

The subordinate waited patiently. A few minutes later, Lin Yun glanced at him.

“Alright. Got it. You may get back.”

Hearing that, the subordinate was slightly relieved. He bowed and left.

It couldn’t have been easy for the Lodney Family to behave so modestly to ease the tension between them. However, Lin Yun didn’t need to say anything back. If the Lodney Family decided to submit, then he wouldn’t suffer any loss if he made peace with them. After all, the Lodney Family had existed in the Odin Kingdom for years, and had a great network of connections.

Soon after the representative of the Lodney Family left, another person came.

“Sir Merlin, this is a small gift from Sir Reynolds. He hopes that you’ll like it.”

Reading the thick book in his hand, Lin Yun put on a smile of amusement. In the book was information about organizations large and small. Although the information wasn’t detailed, it was still very valuable for the Gilded Rose. It would take the Gilded Rose a lot of time if it wanted to gather all the information on its own.

After the assault against the Gilded Rose, the Lodney Family became anxious, and so did the Roosevelt Business Alliance. The competition between the Roosevelt Business Alliance and the Lincoln Business Alliance was getting fiercer, so the former couldn’t afford offending the Gilded Rose anymore.

If the Gilded Rose increased its supply of Universal Cores for the Lincoln Business Alliance, the Roosevelt Business Alliance would be in even greater trouble. Besides, the Gilded Rose had every reason to suspect them.

The book of intelligence that the Roosevelt Business Alliance delivered was a declaration that it had nothing to do with the attacks. Also, although it wasn’t openly stated, Lin Yun knew that the suspects who attacked the Gilded Rose had to be in the book. He only needed to find useful information, and then narrow down the most suspicious suspects.

The book contained a great amount of information, including the looks, strength, and characteristics of the most famous people in every organization. There were even paintings of some strong experts.

Soon, Lin Yun found an important suspect in the book. It was the Ring of Roses from the south of the Odin Kingdom. That organization was exclusively made of women, and had some powerful female mages and Sword Saints. However, there were no paintings, only vague descriptions.

The Ring of Roses’ main businesses were intelligence and assassination. A lot of brothels, casinos, and taverns were its property. Anyone who needed intelligence could make exchanges with the Ring of Roses. Also, the Ring of Roses adopted a new method in every assassination. Its members had one thing in common: they were crazy, and would do anything to achieve their goal.

Once, in order to assassinate a Heaven Rank expert, a Heaven Rank assassin of the Ring of Roses pretended to be an Archmage, and worked for the target for three years before she found the perfect opportunity to kill the mage.

The Ring of Roses was brutal, but not bloody. Sometimes, its target didn’t even know that the Ring of Roses was after them. So, it was under a lot less pressure than the Shadow Tower. At least, it wasn’t as notorious as the Shadow Tower. When people needed intelligence, they would go to the Ring of Roses.

Lin Yun put away the book. He almost confirmed that the two visitors who went to the Lodney Family were from the Ring of Roses. The fact that they had been attracting enemies to the Gilded Rose and the desperate behavior suggested that they were from the Ring of Roses.

More importantly, very few organizations could’ve easily sent two level-3 Heaven Rank mages to instigate trouble except the Ring of Roses.

After all, there were much fewer female mages than male ones, especially among Heaven Rank ones. The female Heaven Rank mages only took up 10 percent of the total.

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Most female Heaven Rank mages wouldn’t do such a thing. Having accomplished the extraordinary evolution, they were the ideal targets of many evil mages.

3,000 years later, a level-5 Heaven Rank evil mage, after running out of potential, and failing to make any progress in 3,000 years, would catch a few Heaven Rank female mages and impregnate them. With evil power, he forced the female mages to conceive with all their power.

Their children, as descendants of an extraordinary creature, were all talented. However, the evil mage was unsatisfied. He let the most talented child swallow the less talented ones. Then, he made use of his bloodline power, and swallowed the soul of the last kid, occupying his kid.

Unfortunately, soon after he acquired this unimaginably talented body, he was involved in the battle of two Heaven Rank experts, and died in the most miserable way…

Lin Yun shook his head, and decided to leave it alone. Whether or not the Ring of Roses was behind this, the people who attacked the Gilded Rose couldn’t cause any greater damage. They wouldn’t be able to kill anyone who was under the protection of the level-40 alchemy puppets, unless the Heaven Rank experts participated.