"Why did you invest in the League of Shadows? You could have gone after Pandemonium."
"I'm not investing in the League of Shadows," I replied. "I'm investing in Maximus Sagaza."
It was true the League of Shadows itself was mediocre. Even after its future growth, it would still be small fry compared to the top underworld organizations.
But their leader?
That was a different story.
Even within the Sagaza family, very few had ever awakened a sub-skill—and none of them had anything as broken as Maximus's Discipline.
Maya stared at me silently for a moment, then nodded like she understood and stood up from the bed.
I was sitting cross-legged, hunched over my phone.
Right now, I was rewriting everything she had just dumped into our chat.
Everyone in this universe spoke English—like some forced "universal language"—but in my old world, I'd studied Mandarin. So I was rewriting all of Maya's info in Mandarin, in case someone ever got hold of my device.
It had already been hours.
