GREED: ALL FOR WHAT? - Chapter 2265 2265: Intricate Undercurrents.

The leader of the small gang was an old godclad. He didn’t want trouble or stress, so he wasn’t willing to be encouraged or supported to vie for the two free districts.

But the other large gang with five territories threatened him instead of encouraging him. They told him that he either expanded or they would support someone else to consume him and fight for them.

Of course the large gang didn’t want to do this because the gang closest to the pacifist is a gang with two districts. If this gang takes control of the single district of the pacifist, they will become a gang with three districts.

If that were to happen, the battle for the rank 5 undying godclad’s territory will change from being a fight between a large gang with three districts and a small gang with one district to a fight between two large gangs with three districts.

In that case, whoever wins will become a gang with five territories. So the large gang with five districts will lose either way.

To prevent this from happening, they encouraged the pacifist after threatening him. Then they began to support him to fight.

All in all, the matter was complicated. It caused a lot of intrigues and schemes to happen. Gangs were supporting or antagonizing each other, and nobles were threatening or encouraging each other.

This undercurrent took the attention of the public away from the Golden Hammer gang. But there were still people who had their eyes on the Golden Hammer gang.

One of them was Celine’s mother. The other was Celine’s father, Sir Kriss. Sir Kriss especially had a lot to be concerned about in relation to the Golden Hammer gang because he had sent a rank 4 illusionist to spy on them yesterday morning.

His action of sending a spy to infiltrate a gang as powerful as the Golden Hammer gang is already a problem. If he had known that they were this powerful, he wouldn’t have sent the illusionist for fear of offending them.

But it is too late for that now. He already sent the spy and can’t take it back. So if he will offend them, it is too late to stop it.

Unfortunately, as bad as that seems, it is only the side dish on his plate of problems. One of the main dish is the fact that the illusionist hasn’t returned.

It has been 24 hours since he sent the illusionist to spy on the Golden Hammer gang. Yet, he hasn’t heard a thing from the illusionist. As a smart man, he can figure out that the illusionist is mostly dead.

This isn’t like the death of his rank 3 daughter. When she died, only he and his wife were offended.

The person who died now is a bonafide epic being with a powerful personal strength, an average of 200 years of lifespan, countless powerful relationships, and many people to rely on.

He had sent such a person to their death, so he has offended a lot of people now that the epic illusionist is dead. He can’t put the blame on the Golden Hammer gang because it will be just his words. No one will believe him.

Even if he were speaking the truth and everyone believed that the Golden Hammer gang was the one who killed the epic illusionist, no one would blame them because it wasn’t personal and because their reaction is self-defense.

Of course, some people will complain that they killed an epic being when they should have captured and ransomed him to the forces supporting him. But everyone will understand why they killed an intruder after two assassins infiltrated their territory earlier to kill them.

It is understandable that the Golden Hammer gang was on tenterhooks after just suffering an attack and attacked the new intruder with extreme prejudice. So no matter how it goes, the blame will be put on Sir Kriss, as he is the one who sent the epic illusionist to his death.

Not that he is trying to shirk the responsibility. He is the employer, so he should bear responsibility for the casualties caused by his orders. If he tries to shirk the responsibility, no one will risk their lives for him in the future.

He said to himself, “If I had known that he was risking his life, I wouldn’t have sent him.”

He had sent the illusionist because the matter should have been safe. Now the illusionist is dead, and he might have offended the Golden Hammer gang. The latter is the second main dish on his plate of problems.

These three problems are why, for the first time in a long time, he has stopped working. He stopped working to think.

He sat at his table thinking about what he had done and the repercussions of his actions. He was also thinking of how to improve the situation.

He put his hands against each other and tapped his fingers rhythmically against each other as he contemplated his situation.

He thought again, “This is why I said that anyone who fights should be prepared to lose.”

He believes that fighting is like gambling and can lead to a loss of life and property. This belief has been further proven by the death of the illusionist and Rack.

Rack was just like him. Both of them thought that the matter was safe and there was very little risk. Both of them gambled with confidence and lost really big.

This is why he has the inclination not to let the matter with the Golden Hammer gang escalate further. It is not that he is afraid of the Golden Hammer gang. He just doesn’t want to gamble anymore.

For most gamblers, the more they lose, the more they will want to keep gambling in order to win back what they have lost. This is the sunk cost fallacy.

But he doesn’t like gambling at all. This isn’t about his strength or the strength of the ruling families of Reinfield City. He just doesn’t want to risk anything anymore.