I don’t know if it was a by-product of reform, but after the war, the public security of the cities of Osatalia, which began to accept non-imperial immigration, showed varying degrees of decline. Among them, Katris, who was in a serious situation, gradually divided into two worlds without realizing it.

The world of day and the world of late night...

In other words, it is a world composed of ordinary people, politicians, and all things contained in the past "common reason" and a world based on open order as the criterion; and another set of "rules" that operate secretly by organizations outside the scope of common sense such as mafia and killer companies.

The forces in the dark have existed on this land since ancient times, but this black beast that has always chosen people has been crawling in the darkness and has not caused much storm. Order and chaos, the opposition between these two worlds gradually intensified, and a delicate balance is maintained between these two worlds.

But the chaos left behind after the war was like fresh flesh and blood that lured the darkness, attracting their actions. Not only the darkness that has been hiding in the dominion since the past, but more external things also sneaked into the shadow cast by this stable land without the fire of war.

Even ordinary people living in this city can feel that a river that cannot be seen by the naked eye is slowly forming. It is a river full of money and blood, which is conveyed from the blood of people involved in the darkness of this city and slowly flows into the deeper darkness.

Theft, robbery, violent gangs, illegal transactions... and all kinds of other things that are continuing to increase. The Mercenary Management Office often receives commissions to solve such problems, so as Curt, as a mercenary, deals with these things every now and then, and it is almost no wonder that he is used to it.

"If it were as you said, I think the conservatives had been involved with the black forces in the Dominion for a long time." Curt said in confusion. "They shouldn't have chosen to use the methods under the table. Why do you suspect that they have something to do with the recent increase in crimes?"

Curt didn't know what the structure of Katris' past power structure was, because he and Liqi were also members of the "new immigrants" who came to Osatalia after the war. However, the two major factions that almost completely occupied the Dominion could not only have the power to put on the stage.

Cruz François nodded: "The conservatives were involved in nature and black forces in the past. In an era when we had not yet gained an advantage, they had used various means including assassination, coercion, and bribery to try to attack our comrades."

Even when the reformists have achieved a comprehensive victory in the empire, he has still encountered many assassinations. However, if he wants to assassinate a high-level magician who can control the surrounding air like waving his limbs, this behavior can no longer be described as "stupid".

"It's really a way to achieve his goal." As if he was amused by his statement, Curt's face had a slightly sarcastic smile, "But I think, even if they are all villains, as reformists, you shouldn't be all gentlemen, right?"

The members of the reformists will definitely not sit still and wait for death under the threat of the other party. As for the means they used to fight back, there is actually no need to think too much about it.

Without his expectations, a clear wry smile appeared on Cruise François's face: "You are right. Both of us are covered in each other's blood. At this point we are not qualified to laugh at them. But the result is that we succeed and they fail."

For these "dirty" methods used by the other party, they also chose to use the same behavior as a response - in the name of the so-called "righteousness".

Eye for an eye, tooth for tooth.

If someone sends assassins to kill members of the reformists, they will thoroughly investigate the source of the assassins and then sweep away the assassin's organization and the client; if the other party seizes the handle of the reformists and coerces them, they will use the same method to threaten them.

If a member of the reformist faction was bought and betrayed this faction, he would often not even have time to regret it.

Use heretics to resist heretics and refute unreasonableness.

This is true. In an era when the struggle between the reformists and the conservatives intensified, the empire did not identify any of them as an illegal organization. While the two recognized forces on the surface were fighting openly and secretly with political means, the conspiracy under the table never stopped.

This is not an unimaginable thing. In comparison, the dispute between the two factions in the empire is relatively moderate. At best, it is just a confrontation between the two forces. It is not as if violent revolutions or indiscriminate terrorist attacks broke out like some countries.

Not interested in pursuing the previous problems, Curt said half-jokingly: "But you said just now that some conservatives who are worried that they will not be able to lose their power are in secret - because the crime is happening in an abnormal number. If I remember correctly, the biggest dark forces in the city are those guys who have always supported you, right? Could it be that the dog I owned has grown up now and plans to bite his owner? "

Many of the black forces in the Dominion were cultivated by both sides during this period. The only difference among these forces is that most of the groups that chose to follow the conservatives have been cut off, while those who follow the reformists have occupied the culmination of darkness in constant struggle.

Cruise François laughed and said to Curt: "I haven't seen anyone talking to me in this attitude for many years... Mr. Leinster. Your performance reminds me of a friend who had been a long time ago - but unfortunately he had left many years ago."

He drank the last little tea in the cup: "I have thought about what you said, but my 'friends' are not necessary to break up with us yet. And the information about the robbery we collected from us was very similar to a new group."

“Newly emerging groups?”

Curt raised his eyebrows and repeated the idea proposed by Cruise François, who felt that the idea he proposed was not very likely.

The cake of the dark forces of the Dominion has basically been divided up by various fixed groups, and the large gangs are entrenched in their own fields to control small and small forces. Although these groups have frictions with each other, there has not yet been a conflict to seize the market.

In this context, it is not easy for a new force to get a piece of the pie. If they make a big move like robbing a warehouse when they first arrive, they are tantamount to issuing a declaration of war to the original forces that control the area near Warehouse Street.

Then, if this new force is either a brave and unscrupulous newborn calf, or a "invader" who can impact the original forces - no matter which one is, it is not something that the "reformers" who are planning to establish a new set of forces are happy to see.

"Director François, what's wrong with you when you ask me?"

Just as Curt was thinking about what the "evidence" was like this, a metal sound that seemed to be synthesized by machinery suddenly came outside the door of the reception room.

Looking back, I saw a complex iron metal skeleton floating in the air.

Construct?

Grame, stone monster, iron humanoid... Curt has seen many kinds of constructs, and these spell products given hypocritical "life" are faithful guards and tools. Made of various materials, they will faithfully execute the commands given by their masters - provided that they can understand them.

But he had never seen such a delicate mechanic structure: a silver-glorious spherical bracket firmly secured its body parts. Several floating little claws unsteadily floated around its core composed entirely of metal bonds.

This does not seem to be a creation that can be accomplished by current technology, nor does it mean that its body structure is too complex, but that it seems that he feels the intelligence that ordinary constructs do not have from this construct. It is like taking the camera lens to stare at Curt's face - is that its eyes?

When Cruz François saw the structure floating into the reception room, he waved his hand easily to signal it to sit beside him: "Aurodin, you are here just right, come and sit."

“Buzz?”

The little guy called "Orodin" made a message of confusion, but he still floated near the table where the two were. Its metal bracket was buzzing, slowly falling and stopping on another chair next to Cruz François.

It is impossible to see the expression changes on the face of a construct, but Curt could clearly feel subtle emotional changes from the "biota" whose whole body is made of metal. He could be sure that this construct is indeed an intellectual "biota".

"It was a mechanical creature summoned from an unknown alien world a few years ago by researchers from the 'Enemy Essence' in a summoning experiment because of accident." Cruise François introduced to Curt about Aurodin, "As you can see, it is a creature we have never seen before."

After summoning it, I originally wanted to dismantle it and use it for research, but later I seemed to give up the plan because of the helpless reason that "I can't understand the working principle at all". However, because I was unable to successfully call it back, I had to stay in the Yin Yao Tower to serve as a librarian.

A brief introduction to the identity of the small construct, Cruise François told Curt: "And it was also one of the witnesses of the robbery that took place on Warehouse Street. It was through the images it provided that I thought that the people who ransacked the warehouse were a new force."
Chapter completed!