Taking the Mafia to the Magic World

Chapter 1024  Preparations for departure

After Prisiche's warning, Vicente got on with his daily business.

As worrying as an assassination attempt was, he would not let threats like that impede his life.

He made his way to the faction's headquarters, where he greeted several members on the way to his office. {Golden Partners} currently had over 100 active members, half of them Archmages and the other half Magus.

Vicente found his Flaming Lion lying on a large cushion in his office and chatted casually with him for a while. Rex had improved his strength and was now an 8-Star beast. But this creature already had expectations of seeing his master stronger than him even before he became a 9-Star Magus.

Rex was more than happy to know that his master was growing stronger and stronger.

After a while in his office talking to Rex, Vicente came across Larissa.

This white-haired woman was currently at 4-Star level, a good cultivation for someone who arrived in Anicane only five years ago. But she clearly paled compared to Vicente.

Even though she was weaker than him, Larissa had learned about the journey he intended to make out of Light Cay alongside Nan, and had been invited by him to join the adventure. Larissa really wanted to leave the island and look for her old plan companions, so she accepted without a second thought.

Now they were preparing to leave the sect in less than two years and join Nan's group!

"I've started our plan. In a few months, the sect should realize our interest in leaving Light Cay and, after that, we'll probably lose Stonewall's support and defense," she said as she sat down opposite him in that room full of robotic and mechanical projects.

Prisiche was there too, of course, standing next to Vicente's desk.

"Do you think so?"

"Absolutely." She shook her head affirmatively. "Stonewall won't stop us from leaving the island. But they won't support us in doing so. As soon as they find out about our plans, they'll abandon us and try to force a deal for us to stay on the island longer."

Stonewall's rules did leave doors open for members of the force to come and go from the island. But they had only been with the force for a few years and, from the point of view of the sect's leaders, they had taken more of the opportunities they had than they had given in return.

In the interpretation of this politically experienced woman, it was only a matter of time before the sect pitted them against the 'wolves' and forced them to seek help.

"The Elders have been watching you for years," she said with a suggestive look. "The moment they know you're leaving, it's possible that on the same day someone will open the way for your enemies to kill you."

Thinking about it, Vicente said, "Someone will try to kill me soon. Maybe some member of Stonewall will find out or has already discovered our plans?"

This information was new to her, but she would never doubt the possibilities. "It wouldn't be impossible, although quite unlikely. We've just begun the conversations that will lead to the consequences of our interests in leaving the sect."

The two of them looked at each other in silence, thinking about what might happen next.

While they were doing this, Rex stood up and strolled to their side.

"Master, when will you reach your sensitization? Is it possible for you to become a Grand Magus before you go to meet Nan?"

The sensitization Rex mentioned was nothing more than the point in cultivation at which the body and soul of a newly promoted person from a lower plane would fully adapt to the conditions of Anicane and would no longer grow so quickly.

So far, Vicente had grown hastily, not only because of his talent, but because he was more susceptible to Anicane's cultivation conditions. But eventually, he would reach a point where he would experience the same or greater difficulties as people of his level, but native to Anicane.

Rex and the others in the faction foresaw that once Vicente reached that point, it would take years for him to make small progress.

"No, I believe I'll leave Light Cay with a peak cultivation of 7th stage." Vicente answered his beast as he understood what Rex had in mind. "Unfortunately, I won't be able to use brute force to deal with the strongest on this island before I leave. I'll still be far below the bosses of Light Cay at the time, Rex.

That's disregarding my Real Sorcerer skills."

The beast, the artificial intelligence and Larissa understood well what he had in mind. They were all aware of Vicente's concerns about the invitation to Hell, so knew that he would avoid using part of his Real Sorcerer abilities.

A Real Sorcerer could perform various special rituals. But the rituals generally involved supernatural powers that somehow connected to the dark Hell.

Banishing Rituals were stronger in terms of their connection to Hell, so they were more likely to cause the gates of Hell to open. But even an ordinary ritual of sacrifice was likely to provoke some strange phenomenon that Vicente wanted to avoid.

He had learned this on his journey to becoming a Real Sorcerer of the Eighth Class and had already discussed it with his three most trusted companions in Light Cay.

"Let's hope it doesn't come to that," Larissa said as she stood up, sighing.

He smiled and said, "Well, I don't want trouble, but if it comes to me, I'm looking forward to testing my current capabilities."

Minos still dreaded the invitation to Hell. But he was a talented magician, someone used to fighting and eager to push himself to his limits. Even with his reservations, he wanted to test himself against strong opponents!

Larissa could see it in Vicente's eyes, but she didn't press the issue. Every genius has their contradictory desires.

She said to him after a worried sigh, "I won't bother you much longer. I'm going to continue preparing things so that the faction can continue to stand on its own feet after our departure. You should seek your master's help soon. Maybe he'll be able to give us some help."

"Hmm, the time is coming for me to broach the subject with him.

Carry on with your work. Depending on how things turn out next, I'll make some kind of agreement promising to return in the future. They should accept something like that for reasonable support," he said as he thought of the sect leaders.

"I doubt it very much. But good luck."