EXPRESSING GOODWILL

As Hao Zexi ran away to the side to relay the details of the meeting to his patriarch, Ichika and the others slowly made their way into the Heavenly Purity palace. During this entire time Kin was puzzled by one thing, so he asked his mother through his soul sense.

"Mother I understand the need to get to the Shadow Order organisation on our side. But still giving them a quarter of market share is a lot. Can't we just restrict them to around 10 to 15% percent? In that way, we can restrict the development of the Shadow Order organisation, in case they grew too powerful in the future for us to handle? we can't trust a merchant organisation, who will switch their allegiance as they wish, just based on profits"- Kin

"There is no need to fear about them Kin. This 25% share is only my investment into their activities. So far they were only a business organisation and relied on information gathering as a part of their business.

But with them joining our alliance, they will step away from mere business organisation to a military affiliated organisation. Since they have chosen to side with us, they have to actively invest major part of their profits into their spy network, as their fate is now completely tied to us.

As they have chosen to join our side, their spy network will suffer badly from now on, as none of our opponents will want to have the enemies spies on their lands. So the Shadow Order had to build a brand new spy network from scratch and even needs massive resources to maintain the network in the future.

As for switching their allegiance in the future, all we need to do is to demonstrate our family power, when we conquer the next world. Strength reigns supreme in these worlds, if they still think about backstabbing us in the future, after witnessing our strength, then their are definitely few screws loose with the organisation higher officers."- Ichika

Ichika passed few more of her valuable(vicious) information to Kin, on how to deal with these kind of situations in the future.

At Hao Zexi's Side

He completely revealed to his patriarch about confirming the identity of Emperor Manu, the alliance formation between the top 3 Ruler families and the 3 conditions Ichika forced onto to them to be a part of the alliance.

"Sir Patriarch, how should I proceed from now on? This one decision will decide the fate of our organisation for the next few generations"- Hao Zexi

The patriarch of the Shadow Order took 5 to 10 minutes of time, to weigh both the pros and cons of Ichika conditions, before deciding to go through it.

"Hao Zexi, accept to all the 3 conditions imposed by Empress Ichika. Also as a token of our sincerity, we will even given them 15% discount when selling resources to the alliance and 30% discount on any information they request of us."- Patriarch

If Ichika's conditions sounded cruel to Hao Zexi, then the patriarch decisions sounded on the border of madness. Not only is he accepting Empress Ichika's conditions, he is even offering them huge discounts.

"But Sir Patriarch, if we join the alliance and from what I noticed with my conversation with the Empress, the alliance will only end up making enemies with more than half of the Ruler families. Profits are good for our organisation, but if we are blinded by greed, then our whole existence will be in question."- Hao Zexi

"Hao Zexi, it seems like you became stupid with age and failed to notice the numerous signs behind Empress Ichika's words. First tell me, what do you think of this Empress character?"- Patriarch.

Hao Zexi face became red with embarrassment when the patriarch called him stupid. One has to know that he is a Supreme Elder of the organisation and even the Patriarch has to give him some face at times. But today he directly called him stupid, it clearly shows how much importance the Patriarch is giving to this alliance.

"Hmm how should I say? She is strong, overbearing, cunning, ruthless and a bit Kind I think"- Hao Zexi

If it isn't for Ichika's 3rd condition to not cooperate with Slave Traders and Evil people, he will never even associate the word 'kind' with Ichika.

"Correct, that's my evaluation of her too. Then tell me, if someone like you can think of the serious troubles ahead of the alliance, then what about Empress Ichika?

As a member of the longest surviving family under creation and it's representative, do you think she is a fool to impose these conditions?

If she really decided to force the hand of the other Ruler families, that means she is completely confident of dealing with her opponents.

Zexi, remember this is Uchiha's we are dealing with. They didn't survive for so long without some serious strength. If I have to remind you again, whatever strength they demonstrated on Monster World is just a part of their strength. We don't even know how many more trump cards they have in their hand, so now answer me, should we join the alliance or not?"- Patriarch

Hao Zexi was completely terrified by Patriarch's words. All this time he became muddle headed and was only focused on just the benefits and future of his organisation and completely overlooked the actual facts.

It just like his Patriarch said, how could a cunning person like Empress Ichika take a loss? It will only be a miracle, if someone like her took a loos.

"Sir Patriarch thanks for the lesson. I will immediately accept to the Empress conditions"- Hao Zexi

"Good. But request her to keep the news about us joining the alliance as a secret for couple of weeks. We need to withdraw the members of our organisation safely, before our opponents decide to make a move."- Patriarch

"Yes, Sir Patriarch"- Hao Zexi

It didn't take long before Hao Zexi arrived before Ichika and agreed to accept all of her conditions and formally joined the alliance.

Ichika, Ajin, Vaeril and Hao Zexi spent the entire evening before finalizing and coming to agreements on numerous Civil, Economic and Military cooperations. As requested by the patriarch of Shadow Order organisation, they decided to reveal the news 2 weeks from now.

Once the agreements were signed, the Virtris family, Ajin and Hao Zexi decided to stay as guests in the Royal Palace on the request of Ichika.

The next day, on the orders of Ichika, Zetsu revealed huge news to all the citizens of the Human Race Empire.

The news is to allow all the junior members of the Empire's officials family and the Empire citizens who are participating in the event, to meditate infront of Emperor Manu Golden Tablet and gain a part of his inheritance if they are lucky. If somehow anyone is able to comprehend even one move from the tablet, they will be accepted as disciples of Emperor Manu.

Once news about the Golden Tablet was revealed to the public, it sent ripples across the whole Monster World. Who on this world, doesn't know about Emperor Manu by now? Numerous broadcasting channels still kept on replaying how Emperor Manu took down million of soldiers with a single move.

Most of the cultivators knew how hard it is to gain insights into Emperor Manu inheritance, but still they want to have a go at it. If they are lucky and gain something from this inheritance, it will completely change their destiny.

While the citizens of Human Race Empire were celebrating with joy, the remaining races were feeling sad on how they missed such a big chance.

But 2 days later after the Beastmen race Emperor Luke LionHeart and Dragonoid race Emperor Tianlong met Empress Ichika, another news is released to the public.

This time as a token of friendship and goodwill, Empress Ichika allowed all the members of humanoid races participating in the event to meditate infront of the Golden Tablet.

Since the number of candidates who wanted to meditate infront of the golden tablet increased by Millions, only those participants who will survive the first stage qualifications of event by the end of the next month, will be given permission. Also to adjust so many people, the tablet is moved to the biggest military ground in the capital.

Even though the restriction was only set to only those who qualified for the first stage, most of the participants from other humanoid races completely expressed their heartfelt gratitude to Empress Ichika, for giving them such a precious chance.

And 2 weeks later, another news was released to the public. This time the top 3 Ruler families, Shadow Order Organisation and few other trading companies officially formed an alliance.

Most of the natives of Monster World doesn't know about the existence of these Ruler families or about Shadow order, but those Ruler families and clans who were observing each and every moment of the Uchiha clan through their spies were completely taken away by surprise and shock.

But before they could recover from their initial shock, the next day another news was released. Amazon World, under the leadership of Ruler Serafina Emberdane also officially joined the alliance.

Before the other Ruler's could digest the news, the agreement between the alliance and the merchant organisations regarding the allocation of market shares were also made public.

Once the other Ruler's and powerful families who were still watching from the sidelines learnt about this news, they immediately send out numerous envoy's to Monster World to negotiate with the alliance representative Empress Ichika. Some families even sent their own Patriarchs and Ruler's as Envoy's to meet Empress Ichika.

While those families who didn't meet the requirement to join the alliance, immediately started to form their own alliance. Slowly and steadily, all the powerful forces under creation started to be divided into 2 factions and signs of dispute between these 2 factions started appearing.