Primordial Soul's Rebirth

"You guys can try it as well if you want to," Alex spoke after he answered Max's question.

He looked into Alice and Ann's eyes simultaneously and gave them a deep look.

Alice might not have understood, but Ann did and she spoke.

"I'm fine without that, I love my hair and I wouldn't want even one string of my hair to fall off," Ann spoke with a frown.

But the contract that was floating in front of her broke into particles and entered her body just like it did with Alex's showing that she had accepted the contract.

*Giggle*

Grace giggled as she heard Ann's words as she would want the same as Ann, but she was also happy that Ann accepted the contract.

"Ah, yes, I also like my hair, after all, it took quite some time for me to grow them to this length," Alice finally got the meaning behind Alex's words after she saw what Ann did.

So, she spoke as she patted some of the hairs that were resting on her shoulder.

Then just like Ann's her contract also broke into particles and entered her body, indicating that the contract was formed.

Alice and Ann who knew about the contract's restriction already knew that it wasn't going to work for them but they accepted it nonetheless.

They could tell that Alex did it for a reason although they didn't get it, so they just followed his instructions and did the same.

"I get that you can bind people with a contract and you can have them under your control with the same contract, but where are you going to start? And what do you need our help in?"

Alex asked Max as he tapped his finger on the table lightly.

"I was thinking of…."

Max spoke but he stopped mid-sentence as he and everyone else could hear a pair of footsteps moving toward them in a very high sigh or simply running toward them.

All of them turned toward the main kitchen's entrance and they saw the gate slide open and Jake, the one Damien had ordered to bring Cain here running toward them.

Jake was standing in front of Damien in just a while as he was also a raider, albeit a C-ranker, but a raider nonetheless.

"Sir…. hah…." Jake was breathing heavily but he still stood with his back straightened as he addressed Damien.

Damien looked at Jake with his eyes squinted before he spoke.

"I ordered that no one shall come here unless called, yet you still came here unannounced, so you better have a good reason or your job would be the last of your worries."

Jake trembled a bit but still nodded his head, he knew that the news he had was very important.

"What are you waiting for then? Speak up," Damien spoke sharply as he saw Jake still trying to calm his breathing as he stood there.

"Sir, I went to Cain's house," Jake spoke as his breathing had turned somewhat normal.

"And?" Damien asked.

"He... He was dead, Sir," Jake stammered as he replied.

"Dead?" Damien's eyes sharpened.

"How did he die?" Damien asked as he looked into Jake's eyes.

"...… He had his head decapitated, sir," Jake replied after a long pause as he clenched his fists behind his back.

Cain was his friend, after all, they used to come and go together, of course, he would feel bad for his friend's death.

"I see, go back now," Damien waved his hand with a thoughtful look on his face.

'Phew….' Jake sighed in relief as he knew that he was safe and he was not getting punished.

But he quickly moved away from there as he didn't know when his boss changed his mind and decided to give him some kind of punishment.

"Who is Cain?" Max asked after Jake moved away.

"The guy that planted the explosive," Damien replied as he still had that thoughtful look on his face.

Grace and Max, however, turned serious as the topic of the explosion was brought up.

"He was killed?" Max asked even though he already heard Jake's words earlier.

"Yes," Damien nodded his head as he looked at Max.

"How did he even go back home in the middle of the work hour?" Max asked in a confused tone.

"He seemed to have made some excuses and even used my name to make his coworkers believe that he had some serious problem back home," Damien sighed as he knew it was his fault for not keeping an eye on the staff working under him.

"But he wouldn't have left a long time ago," Max spoke again.

"That's the point, I sent my team after him around 20 minutes ago, yet they found him dead with his head decapitated," Damien spoke but then Max, Grace, and Damien realized something, and they turned their heads with a snap.

They looked toward Lily with worry as they didn't know how she would react to this but they found her eating her pastry without a care of the world.

But then Grace lifted her hand and knocked in the air.

*Ting*

The sound of something knocking on a glass was heard as her ring hit something hard.

All of them then turned toward Alex as they could tell what it was.

"What? You guys want her to hear it?" Alex asked with a frown as he saw all three of them looking at him.

"No, and thank you," Max thanked Alex again which he had been doing a lot today.

"It's all right," Alex just waved his hand.

Max nodded his head and then he turned back to Damien and spoke.

"Looks like they had planned it all from the start."

"Yeah, it seems that way," Damien nodded as well.

Max then turned toward Alex again and spoke.

"You wanted to know where I would start, right? I would start with the Raider association of this country," Max replied to the question Alex had asked a while ago.

They all knew who was behind this attack, it was not hard to guess.

In this country, only one organization was strong enough to try to target Max and his close ones.

It was the Raider Association of the Violet Country.

The Association and Max's force are almost the same in power if we don't include the SS-ranker that Max had under his command, but the balance was still maintained as the Association had more power over the public.

The delicate balance was maintained, but then news of Max meeting the Crimson Lotus's Guild master reached the Association, and of course, they wouldn't like to take chances and let Max and Alice form an alliance.

So, it was not hard to guess the preparator behind the explosive incident.

It could be some other force from some other country, but they don't have the power in this country to arrange these things.

The power to make that possible could only be done by two forces, Max's and the Association's.

So, be it directly or indirectly, one thing was sure, the Association was involved.

But just then Alex spoke.

"I would advise you against that."

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