Deceiving

"What do you mean?" Quinn said with a chill in his heart.

"Your plan was terrible and not only that, it was even leaked? When I was about to relocate into the house someone attacked me and stole all the objects you gave me. When I woke up, I didn't have the things, so I quickly ran here thinking the plan failed."

Quinn suddenly felt his legs go weak. But he showed a tinge of anger. "You dare to deceive me? Do you think you can live after deceiving me?"

Tristan looked at Quinn with ridicule. "Are you an idiot? I need information only you know. If I deceive you, how would I get the information. Your plan was so stupid, someone even intercepted me."

Quinn suddenly felt a tremor of fear in his heart. Someone had tricked him and stolen the egg using him as a cover. However, he could still salvage his life if he shut the mouth of this young lad in front of him. He decided to kill Tristan immediately.

Just as he was going to deceive Tristan before killing him with surprise, Tristan suddenly attacked him using Ares tactics. Quinn who was already on the verge of death was beaten to the brink.

"You... how is this possible? You are actually a genius from the War Conference? Was I played?" Quinn vomited blood and lost all color as well as hope. He was sure now that a War Conference elder was probably overseeing the entire operation and used himself as a pawn to capture the Egg.

"What... do you want?" He shrieked.

"Information. First explain the shopping incident." Tristan said emotionless.

Quinn sighed. "So the war conference even knew that the shopping district was related to the egg? Hahaha." He wailed miserably.

When Tristan heard that he had tremors inside. He absolutely didn't think the two were related.

Quinn spoke. "I was good friends with Renly Dillard. Both of us were on missions together. One day, we discovered an undocumented space crack inside an abandoned house on the outskirts of Coastal City.

The space crack led to a world fragment which was completely empty and barren. But the world fragment was actually a bridge. It connected to a world which was subservient to Demons - Kula World.

Renly and I began an underground business in collaboration with the Kula world, but we kept the existence of the secret crack hidden. We were supplying information from the government to the Kula and began smuggling poor people and orphans as slaves.

One day, a huge commotion broke out in the demon world. A higher demon turned traitor and stole an object which the demons had acquired as spoils of a very bloody war with the Angels. The traitor demon fled to the Kula world and through contacts, found us. She promised us a lot of treasures if we smuggled her out of the influence of the Demon World.

So we decided to smuggle her to Earth. However, when we were passing through the Bridge the treasure's power was so great that it collapsed the bridge. We desperately made our way to earth, but all three of us were heavily injured by the collapse of the barren world fragment and the treasure was revealed. It was the egg.

Renly and I then decided to fight the demon and steal the egg, but even though the demon was injured to death, she was extremely powerful and we struggled a lot to fight her. Eventually Renly stole the egg and escaped while I was left to fight the demon alone.

However, the demon suddenly smiled and then flew into the shopping district and detonated herself and disintegrated. Renly took the egg home and gave it to his family, betraying me. So I found him later and killed him and planned to steal the egg." Quinn gasped.

Tristan sighed. His Evolution Quest actually showed that he had already achieved A rating with this much investigation, but he wasn't satisfied with that.

"What is the egg?" Tristan asked.

"I do not know. I only know that the demon said she could not let it fall into the wrong hands." Quinn gasped, vomiting blood. He was really on the verge of death at this moment.

"Who was the demon?" Tristan asked, though he was certain this was an answer he could find out later through different channels.

"I only know that she was a princess." Quinn was dying now, his vision turned dark.

Tristan didn't waste time, he used Ares Tactics to finish Quinn off. He had noticed Quinn surreptitiously marking the ground with his blood with the words War Conference. Tristan was only happy to let the misunderstandings proliferate. He left the scene after taking all of Quinn's belongings and destroying them.

Back at home Tristan was in deep thought. He realized that the reason why the demon princess detonated herself was crucial to get the S grade in the evolution quest. He was also interested in the use of the Matrioshka Egg, did he just have to guard it now, like the princess?

Tristan went through Vast Expanse channels to find out about the demon princess traitor and surprisingly quite a bit of information was available. Meanwhile, Tristan realized that the forums were all ablaze with the Dillard Family, government, admin quinn news. Even the upper echelons of the War Conference was supposedly involved.

The Dillard family had kept mum about the egg, obviously because it would reveal their ties to demons and would immediately lead to their extermination, but the explosion had caused tremendous injuries to their young talents.