After Naga and Shore left, Kyle sent a letter to the Chief.
"The Skysand Kingdom says that the conflict has to be resolved within a month or they will step in. In my opinion, the conflict has already achieved our desired result. There's no point in continuing it. They have not given me any direct confirmation, but I believe the two Guilds are ready to accept your request."
This was the letter.
If anyone read this letter without context, it wouldn't be suspicious.
However, there was a deeper message in the letter.
A week passed.
Not much happened.
Another week passed.
The Crown Prince was putting more pressure on the three Guilds, reminding them of the deadline.
The next week passed without incidents.
Noah's letters contained the same content as always.
Yet, as soon as the weekly meeting started, things changed.
Kyle could already tell that the mood in the room was far from normal.
Naga and Shore had severe expressions on their faces.
"Larian, we have something important to discuss," Naga said at the beginning of the meeting.
"Yes?" Larian asked. "I'm listening."
The next words came from Shore, and they shook the entire room.
"The conflict can't be saved. Our relationship with the Stark Brotherhood is not salvageable."
"We request the Skysand Kingdom to step in."
'Oh, guess the Chief won,' Kyle thought.
The Chief was no longer keeping his identity secret, which meant that his enemies knew that he had an Aristocrat's Body.
This meant that the Naga Covenant and the Shoreshells would have to muster significant forces to assassinate the Chief.
They must have sent at least two people in the Late Third Realm.
Every person at such a level was extremely important.
And since the Chief had, apparently, won, it meant that two people of extreme importance were dead now.
Such deaths couldn't be kept secret for long.
It was better to come out with the truth directly since it was going to come out anyway.
Larian narrowed his eyes.
He also knew that something significant must have happened.
"What happened?" Larian asked.
Shore looked with a neutral expression at Larian.
"Maester Vianna vanished two days ago," she said. "We found the corpse of her Primary Beast."
Larian's eyes widened.
Vanished was putting it mildly.
When a Primary Beast died, the Beast Master would lose control of their Secondary Beasts.
And where did Beast Masters store their beasts?
In their Soul Space, the most vulnerable part of their being.
The Secondary Beasts just had to expand, and the Beast Master would pop like a balloon.
Maester Vianna was one of the three Maesters of the Beast Association.
She was one of the three most powerful Beast Masters that the Skysand Kingdom had.
"Elder Juniper has not shown herself in public recently," Naga added from the side.
This was even more shocking.
'Holy shit,' Kyle thought. 'The Chief really had his work cut out for him.'
It wasn't unusual for Elder Juniper to not show herself in public a lot, but when Naga just added this sentence at this specific moment…
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