Jinah paced around for over an hour before he made a decision. He then walked out of the clan estate and went to a small bar within the slums.
The bar is clearly the worst one in the whole city. It is completely ragged and the weakest of the whole city are drinking there.
Jinah stood out like a sore thumb, even though he is in a much more common attire. That might even be the worst robe he could find within the few streets around the estate, but that looked like a luxurious piece of clothing in that area.
He walked directly to the bar counter and took out a special coin before placing it on the table.
“Special Room 6.”
The bartender looked at the coin and expressionlessly took it before nodding.
Jinah looked around and casually walked to the shoddy private rooms in the bar. He went into the last room.
The door handle is full of dust. It hasn’t been used in ages.
He opened the door and walked in. There is a small round table with five seats. He sat on one and soon a waiter came with a wine jar and some sides.
After waiting for over half an hour, someone finally arrived. It is a young woman with a uniform of Gaja clan’s sales team.
That is the group that acts as sales personnel in their various stores.
She sat there after giving a nod to Jinah but didn’t speak up for a while. After a few more minutes another person came, this time it is a young man who belonged to a merchant group. The final two seats were filled by two people, one of them came with a cloak, covering his face while the last one is a woman who wore a seductive outfit showing off a lot of skin.
Only after all of them sat down did Jinah finally speak.
“I want to find out about the new group that is wreaking havoc in the city. The group is named Dawn.”
“The Dawn? Is it really that serious that you are using us to get the information?”
The lady in sales uniform spoke up.
“It is serious for me. I need all the information that you could get. It would be much better if you can give me information on a person that is directly involved in this.”
“That would be difficult. I haven’t seen a single person that could be related to this organization. We cannot see a single trace of their activity.” The sales lady said one again.
“Mine too. They literally came out of thin air.”
The woman in the skimpy outfit answered.
When everyone looked at her, she continued to explain.
“Almost every man that visited the city will visit our organization. As you know what we provide. But I haven’t seen a completely new face that is not affiliated with a merchant group or the organizations that we are familiar with.
There is not even a sight of some new and powerful merchant group that came here.”
They nodded and Jinah finally looked at the remaining two. The man in the cloak shook his head and spoke in a very eerie voice.
“As you know, I only operate after you tell me what you want. So, I will look into it now. But from the new information I gathered in the past few weeks, I don’t believe I have anything that could help you.
As she said, they came out of thin air.”
Finally, Jinah looked at the last man with a hint of hope.
“Don’t look at me like that. I don’t have anything on them either. In fact, I can surely say that there is not a single sign of a group that could create this much commotion in the Gaja clan in the surrounding planets and even some realms.
If there had been one, we would have known about it.
Unless they all travelled here alone in extreme stealth and grouped up within the most secure areas of the city, I would have found out.”
JInah was a bit disappointed when he heard this. He gritted his teeth and said.
“Since you don’t have anything until now, don’t search for the information on a group that is capable of doing the kidnappings like this. Search for a group that is good enough to pull off these explosions and threats. That would be enough.”
Everyone frowned and the Sales lady was the first one to ask.
“Why is that? The kidnapping process clearly leaves more clues to explore.”
“Because Dawn didn’t do the kidnappings. They are just a powerful group that is trying to take advantage of the deed someone else has done.”
Everyone was stunned and they widened their eyes in disbelief.
“What do you mean by that? If they didn’t do the kidnapping, who did?”
“That is something you don’t need to know. All you need to do is find out a group that can pull off the threats and explosions. That would suffice.”
With that Jinah stood up and left the room.
The four of them sat down and started discussing how they are going to proceed. For some reason, they are much more talkative than when Jinah is here.
“So, do share the information if you have any. I could use some leads in this area.”
The cloaked man said as he also stood up and walked to the door about to open it.
*Knock* *Knock*
At this moment, someone knocked on the door and all four of them became vigilant. The cloaked man took a step back and looked at the door with vigilance.
He took out his sword and got ready, but the next second before he could react..
*CRASH* *CRACK*
The wooden floor broke open as a large vine came out of it grabbing the man in the cloak.
The rest of the people inside the room jumped up to the corner, but a sword came from one of the walls and stabbed the young man from the merchant group in the shoulder making him freeze on the spot.
Ice started forming in the remaining two corners as it stuck them to the wall.
The next second someone casually opened the door and walked in.
“Hello, we heard that you are looking for Dawn. So, I came here to meet you guys directly.”
The man said with a smile.
A few minutes later. Back in the Clan estate.
Sam is working on another formation plate when Grivon ran in with excitement.
“We confirmed. Jinah is the one that did all of this. He is looking for Dawn using some of his secret information networks. Our informant in the slum actually managed to find him.
From what his agents said, he particularly ordered them to not look for a group that could kidnap this many kids, rather to look for a group that is capable enough to create this much mess with explosions and threats.”
Sam nodded and said.
“Now, all that is left is find out the core reason on why he did it and then get our share of profits from the whole mess. This thing will be over. I believe that you can handle the rest of this.”
“I think I can too.”
As soon as he said, an attendant came running and whispered something.
Grivon’s expression brightened even more as he spoke.
“It’s from Grand Elder Pon, he sent a message that the transfer process is good to go. We can get it done tomorrow.”
“Seems like we will get a lot done tomorrow. Go inform your sister. We can finally put some things behind and then all that would be left is dealing with Mingiv and his stupid father.
As soon as they are done, we can go back to conquering things.”
“Why are you doing everything in such a hurry?”
“The battle with Sivan just made me want to hurry back. My other part of the soul wouldn’t be able to hold him back for long. If he gets all of my memories, your whole Gaja clan will regret it.”
“You are still here aren’t you? You can think of some methods to resist the things that he might create from your memories.”
Sam just smiled and didn’t answer that.
That is something he is never going to do. Not for the Gaja clan or Grivon. It would be foolish of him to give some things to Grivon, no matter how close they get.
After some more discussion about the rest of the plans, they went to meet Giyon and informed her about the situation.
Sam then started giving the rest of the orders to the group to finish the rest of the process. It would involve making Jinah a scapegoat and blaming the whole Dawn thing on him which he essentially did.
But before that, they need to find out what this woman Sinya is doing and what her goals are.
After giving all the instructions, all they needed to do was wait.
Wait for the subordinates to finish the rest.
