Chapter 1242 - Sorokins Bizarre Adventure 3 (2/2)
Hence, Sorokin did not want to make things more complicated. With the big secret of the Holy Accord opportunity, he decided to abandon the plan of targeting Black Star and retired peacefully. Anyway, he felt that he would always get a better opportunity in the future to make Black Star pay for what he did to him.
Oathkeeper narrowed his eyes and suddenly said, “If you’re targeted by Black Star, this is a risk for us too. If we take you in, Black Star might find our location one day by tracking you, leading to us being exposed like today.”
Sorokin quickly said, “That won’t happen. Black Star is not very obsessed with me personally; he just wants my money and assets. You guys don’t know, but that guy is endlessly greedy, domineering, ambitious, slippery, shady, and extremely shameless… His goal is to take over the Limitless Financial Group’s assets.”
Damn, if not because we made contact with Black Star before, we might have really believed in your nonsense.
… But you’re right about him being shameless.
Oathkeeper rolled his eyes in his mind, acted serious, and said, “That’s just your speculation. You can’t ensure Black Star won’t do anything. If you want to join the Holy Accord, it’s best to solve this problem first.”
Sorokin was frustrated inside. He was already planning to cancel this plan, but to his surprise Holy Accord actively wanted to force him to target Black Star instead.
However, from his perspective, Oathkeeper’s worry was totally sensible and logical. Sorokin did not find it strange.
“Honestly, I’m not very confident about fighting Black Star alone. He’s too strong…” Sorokin said with resignation.
Oathkeeper gave him a glare and said, “What, are you asking us to help? Don’t cross the line! If you think you can threaten us just because you have some leverage on your hands, we’ll eliminate you even at the risk of exposing our secret.”
He used a strong and firm attitude so that Sorokin would not suspect Holy Accord and Black Star were connected.
“What do you want to do then?” Sorokin asked. He felt that since Oathkeeper had said so many things, there was no way he was still thinking of resorting to such an extreme solution.
Oathkeeper narrowed his eyes and suddenly said with a gentler tone, “Anyway, you can’t leave now. We have to ensure your original body is in our sights. However, we won’t do anything to you. This is just an insurance measure to prevent you from leaking the secret. As for your request to join the Holy Accord… we’ll have to consider it, weigh the pros and cons.”
The other Holy Accord members all understood Oathkeeper’s intention to take a step back from what he said. They had varied expressions.
“What, are we really going to take him in?” Beiger deliberately acted surprised.
“That is one option. If not, are we really going to let him leak the information?” Oathkeeper turned and glanced at him. He then scanned through everyone and secretly gave them a look. He then turned back to Sorokin and said, “This is my condition. If you don’t accept it, there’s nothing more to talk about.”
Sorokin considered it for a while and realized that he did not have much of a choice. This was already a decent result. Hence, he exhaled and slowly nodded.
“Okay, I agree with your terms. I’m willing to stay under your control temporarily, but you guys can’t secretly set up traps to seal soul energy. Although that doesn’t work much against me, if you guys show signs of doing it, I’ll see it as you guys being insincere about this partnership. I’ll consider our agreement invalid and immediately have my manifestation leak your secret.”
“Okay.” Oathkeeper nodded.
As the two sides came to an agreement, the atmosphere calmed down.
The people approached Sorokin and escorted him toward the Holy Accord’s fleet, planning to monitor this guy every second as a new entertainment other than playing cards.
Sorokin obediently let them take him away. He discreetly wiped away his cold sweat, felt that this experience was like a dream and was glad.
“Luckily, I’m convincing enough to earn a chance…”
After the others went away, Oathkeeper was relieved too. He was also planning to keep Sorokin stable first.
Actually, to Oathkeeper, if Sorokin was sincere about joining them, taking him in was not an issue. They had nothing against each other, plus, they were from the same generation and had common topics, and it would prevent Sorokin from leaking their secret.
Holy Accord was not a subsidiary organization of someone else, so there was actually no need to report to Black Star when recruiting a new member. However, Oathkeeper felt it was still better to tell Black Star about this.
After all, Sorokin and Black Star had conflicts, and Oathkeeper was more on Han Xiao’s side in his heart. To him, the Black Star Army was a more important partner.
Having thought of that, Oathkeeper closed his eyes and secretly used his soul projection to contact Han Xiao.
…
Oathkeeper’s soul projection appeared In Han Xiao’s office and saw the person who was dealing with a pile of documents in his seat right away.
Noticing Oathkeeper’s arrival, Han Xiao looked up and smiled.
“Yo, Oath, what a rare guest.”
Oathkeeper, however, had no intention to chit chat. He said with a deep voice, “Black Star, an emergency situation just happened, and I felt I needed to tell you about it. This might severely impact our plan.”
“Tell me then. I didn’t cover your mouth.” Han Xiao was not nervous at all and joked.
“Just earlier, Sorokin found us…”
Oathkeeper described everything that had happened without leaving any details.
“What? I thought my luck was trash enough. I didn’t think yours would also be not much better.”
Han Xiao laughed right away. He did not expect Sorokin to be so brave to break into this nursing home.
“How are you still laughing!” Oathkeeper was annoyed. “What do you think we should do about this? If you don’t have any suggestion, I’m really going to take him into the Holy Accord!”
“Aiyo, don’t be in such a rush. Isn’t this very easy to solve?” Han Xiao casually waved.
“What ideas do you have?”
“You’ve mistaken the situation, which is understandable given how much it concerns you.” Han Xiao rested his chin on his hands. “You’re worried that he’ll leak your information, but he doesn’t know my connection with you guys. Therefore, in his eyes, leaking your information is only a threat to the Holy Accord organization, not to me. If you think about it from another perspective, you’ll realize that this is good news for me.”
“You’re saying…” Oathkeeper had a rough idea.
“I never had the chance to secretly attack him. Now, however, you guys have helped me to trap the prey and even indirectly created a secret execution ground. Furthermore, Sorokin has no idea that the leverage he has is also effective on me. All it takes is for us to put on a show, and the problem will be solved. This is the reason for our partnership to exist, basically…”
Han Xiao smiled faintly. A Mark of the Underworld on the back of his palm flickered slightly.
“He’s gone.”