If this opportunity yielded a favorable outcome, it would provide a strategic advantage for deeper collaboration in the future.
Su Qi had already planned everything.
The Hustlers Sect should appear openly this time, exposed for the world to see.
Then... strategically withdraw to launch various versatile businesses and acquire the resources needed for growth.
However, this was predicated on being able to safely retreat.
It was a risky gamble, but Su Qi found it worth taking.
Su Qi walked out towards the hall. At this moment, the Bell-Ringer had returned to the palace for a meeting.
There was half a month left until the town's Slaughter Day.
According to the Bell-Ringer, that day would not mark the beginning of a slaughter but the start of a real war.
By then, it surely wouldn't be just about plundering identities.
Su Qi pushed open the grand doors of the hall and gazed towards the mountaintop... at the World Tree Root stretching into the Star River, standing there unopened.
