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Chapter 520 - 361: Hasn’t This Pavilion Master Only Been in Seclusion for Two Months?

Chapter 520: Chapter 361: Hasn’t This Pavilion Master Only Been in Seclusion for Two Months?

For many Awakeners living in the Shattered Sea region, a significant event had occurred during this period.

The Hidden Assassination Pavilion, an organization of Assassins with a fearsome reputation in the dark world, had one of its arms severed. Even though Hidden Assassination Pavilion’s gold-medal Assassins still existed, the loss of a large number of lower to mid-tier Assassins still plunged the organization into a slump. The other major Assassin organizations in the Shattered Sea area took this opportunity to snatch market shares from the Hidden Assassination Pavilion.

As to why the Hidden Assassination Pavilion had split, different powers and strong individuals had various theories, but nobody could disclose the inside story.

On that day at the Blazefire Commerce Guild, some strong individuals did witness the defeat of the Pavilion Master, but their number was negligible when spread across the entire Shattered Sea region.

These strong individuals also had families and businesses to manage. Whether out of fear for the Pavilion Master or the Blazefire Commerce Guild, they were unlikely to spread this secret recklessly.

This led to even more speculation and curiosity among the many strong individuals who couldn’t figure out the truth.

They became curious about the origins of the Blazefire Commerce Guild.

The Assassin organization subservient to the Blazefire Commerce Guild, now renamed "Mission Guild" — or rather, a bounty organization — also attracted the attention of many forces.

But as expected, despite the Blazefire Commerce Guild forcefully taking over various major strongholds with its own considerable strength, a shortage of direct descendants was still a fatal weakness.

In just a short half a month, many strongholds were destroyed, and more Assassins were lost.

"Not only that, but it’s said that the Blazefire Commerce Guild, regarding the batch of Assassins left by the Hidden Assassination Pavilion, did not accept them all. They only took in a few and dispersed most of them... The Blazefire Commerce Guild is too picky, too arrogant."

"That’s not even the end of it. The Mission Guild is also extremely selective about assassination bounties, rejecting many assassination targets. You have to understand, even the Hidden Assassination Pavilion, which is ranked first among Assassins organizations, wouldn’t dare to be so selective."

This move was seen as incredibly foolish by many.

Originally, the Mission Guild was established with the foundation of the Hidden Assassination Pavilion, starting off quite high and becoming an influential power covering the entire Shattered Sea.

But after a series of self-sabotaging acts, the Mission Guild’s influence plummeted.

In time, once the freshness wore off, it might no longer even compare to major powers.

Fang You, who commanded from an extreme distance, was naturally aware of this fact.

Watching the newly established Mission Guild’s business decline steadily, Qianqiu was overwhelmed with stress, thinking he had messed up again, but in reality, all of this was within expectations.

Disbanding many Assassins and abandoning most of the original assassination business might seem regrettable.

But compared to business and earning strange crystals, moral principles were more important.

Bounty assassination was acceptable, but only towards those who deserved to be killed. Presently, the Mission Guild was more like a bounty organization than an Assassins one.

After all, the Mission Guild emerged from the Blazefire Commerce Guild, which itself came from the Torchbearers organization.

The Torchbearers were the firewood of humanity; their purpose could not be contravened.

Disbanding most of the Assassins was part of that purpose too.

These Assassins had been selected from all over by the Hidden Assassination Pavilion and trained from an early age. Since they only learned the skills of killing, the worldviews of most Assassins were distorted.

Those who were excessively anti-human were put down humanely.

The majority were dispersed, and the few who remained were sent back to Oasis Central for re-education, this time learning liberal arts... He even had Qianqiu join the classes.

With Qianqiu, a mythical figure, setting the example, the other Assassins would not dare take their studies lightly.

(Qianqiu: ???)

In such a scenario, it was natural that the operation of the Mission Guild was not very optimistic.

However, Fang You valued such an organization not for earning strange crystals. The Hideen Assassination Pavilion had strongholds spread across most of the Shattered Sea, forming a natural information network.

Even those superpowers and super-families with myths at their helm could not rival the Hidden Assassination Pavilion in terms of influence and intelligence capabilities.

And the Torchbearers’ intelligence capabilities were even weaker, less than those of the Great Oasis.

Under these circumstances, as long as he could take over and fully integrate 10% to 20% of the Hidden Assassination Pavilion, the Torchbearers’ intelligence system could make a significant leap.

Especially since the Shattered Sea had connections with many Great Domains, with it as the core, the Torchbearers’ power could spread across dozens of Great Domains.

"The more troublesome part is, Thousand Faces has already infiltrated the domain of the Blood Emperor, and even if he/she can send an avatar to the Shattered Sea, he/she can’t spare much effort for battle."

After all, an avatar’s combat ability is far inferior to that of the true self. Thousand Faces’ avatar might not even be able to defeat a titled Six Senses. More importantly, unless it’s a divine avatar, other avatars are like water without a source, with life energy hard to replenish.

Under these circumstances, Thousand Faces could only play a supporting role.

Luckily, what Thousand Faces excelled at was support to begin with, possessing the ability to steal thoughts and consciousness, leaving no one able to hide from him/her.

Hidden Assassination Pavilion strongholds, Assassins, servants... all their secrets were being pried open one by one.

This network was being rapidly integrated, and once fully digested, the Torchbearers’ tendrils could spread to multiple locations in the Shattered Sea.

This alone was a huge gain.

It was something obtained for free, for which he could thank the largess of the Pavilion Master.

"Moreover, the reformed Mission Guild may not necessarily stay quiet."

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Kakajie was a wealthy merchant living in the Grand Havoc Isles.

Called a merchant, he was only comparatively wealthy when matched against the vast majority of common people and low-level Awakeners. In the eyes of the stronger individuals, Kakajie was still just a minor figure.

That day, Kakajie walked into a territory of the isles, into a gigantic citadel named "Jialan City."

Jialan City was also a superpower of the Grand Havoc Isles, second only to Grand Havoc City, which held the administrative authority. Within Jialan City, there was a relatively large Mission Guild office.