=To be more precise, milord, Pathos and I have been going over old records we have on Rainbowden and cross-referencing it with the records you acquired from when you took over the [Mines of Malevolence] from Dante,= Logos explained. =Apparently, people from Rainbowden were regular importers of this mine's products.=
Zhen Liu was about to make a statent that went along the lines of, "why would a bunch of noble houses be interested in cursed tals?" but then he realized that was an incredibly stupid statent to make.
Hell, in another lifeti, he'd probably be a purveyor of cursed accessories to these aforentioned noble houses.
Brighter lights tend to lead to darker shadows...or sothing like that.
'Huh. Where did that thought co from?'
Either way, this small revelation of dealings would actually serve as an excellent ans of getting into Rainbowden without having to co up with a complicated backstory, as well as bypassing any random security bullshit that may occur.
"Okay...what familiar faces are you talking about? We're talking like...those guys who fucked off with Smoking Mirror?" Zhen Liu asked while rembering Duke Diamoro, that Silver Jungle Dragon bastard, and Abbot Longhorn.
Logos and Pathos answered simultaneously.
"Of course..."
To better explain themselves, Logos and Pathos manifested multiple holographic windows depicting images of the people Zhen Liu was going to be colliding with while heading to Rainbowden.
Needless to say, while all of these faces were familiar to Zhen Liu, absolutely none of them were friendly.
"Ya know…seeing all fo their faces…really makes rethink my policy about not killing my enemies," Zhen Liu muttered as he reviewed all of the unfriendly faces before him.
"Really?"
=We'll address it later. Please focus on your enemies for the ti being.=
"Fair enough…"
Imdiately after looking over the warriors from Dozing Salamander, Zhen Liu was caught off guard as he saw a na he hadn't seen since the first ti he and his family buried the hatchet with the main Zhen Clan of Roaring Tide.
"Venus? As in that psycho mask bitch who was part of that group that almost turned the kaijin into living nightmares?" Zhen Liu asked for clarity, as his mories of that fight replayed in his head.
The holographic window containing Venus's picture explained that the bitch of a trafficker had been regularly offloading troubleso slaves to the [Mines of Malevolence], while exchanging them for the bare minimum amounts of [Malevolent Gold] and [Sinister Silver].
The criminal organization she swore her loyalty to, The Shadow Garden, had apparently embedded themselves into the black market of Rainbowden, while rumors suggest that they had a base in the underground portions of the city.
Which was right where Zhen Liu needed to be in order to find the Rainbow Smith's inheritance.
Comprehending that now he had to deal with enemies that were of both of orthodox and unorthodox natures, Zhen Liu let out a sigh as he rubbed his temples.
"On the one hand I want to ask if this could get any worse," Zhen Liu sarcastically stated. "On the other, I am fully expecting you to tell sothing awful. So what is this sothing awful?"
"Weird how? Also, why maybe?"
With a gesture, Pathos brought before Zhen Liu not just one holographic window, but three.
"Huh...no pictures?"
=We'll update them once we get the information we need.=
"Hmmm."
Noticing the amused tone, Zhen Liu focused on parsing through one of the windows before focusing on the other, just to see what was so funny to the curator of [Emotional Chaos].
He didn't make it past the last na before realizing what was up.
"Ecaredies? Wait...as in Bellona's Family?! What the fuck?!"
When Zhen Liu beca romantically entangled with Bellona, one of the first things he had learned about the sheep Bloodliner was that the kingdom she hailed from was undergoing a bit of succession crisis, and that her cousins were travelling abroad in order to secure allies and weapons to tip the war in their favor.
Quickly parsing through it, he soon realized that this particular mber of the Ecaredies family was soone he hadn't t yet.
Back during the Zhen Clan tournant, he had t one of Bellona's cousins, who was looking to recruit the Zhen Clan to assist in her succession war. Needless to say, this was a similar story but a different cousin entirely.
=Evidently, your fiancee's succession war has undergone so interesting developnts since she had last ntioned it to you. Because only soone truly desperate would want to acquire that much [Malevolent Gold].=
"Interesting, my ass!"
"A direct bloodline son of a literal dragon emperor is working as a middle class bureaucrat...by choice?" Zhen Liu repeated as soon as that information fully digested in his head. "Okay, that's suspicious as fuck."
From what Zhen Liu rember about Jinju Ren's family, it was a bit of nepo baby hellscape.
A lot of her half siblings had official governnt jobs in the empire, decently high ranked ones too, but not all of them were actually that accomplished or morable.
As such, one of these Pearl Scale descendants being this low on the totem pole was a bit suspicious.
Maybe he just wanted a simple life, maybe he was planning sothing devious, either way the fact that this guy was in the ledger was... suspicious.
"And all of these faces are going to be in Rainbowden...great..."
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