"The Dark Gold Society is also a commercial organization, which is in competition with your Craftsmen's Society. So is this the reason for the hostility between the two of you?"
"It can be considered as such. According to the oracle of the core of the Order, after accepting a large number of members of the Secret Merchants, the White Stone Artisans Association began to vigorously develop and strengthen its own business attributes. It gradually evolved from a pure Artisan Association to what it is today, replacing the Secret Merchants Association and becoming the largest trading platform in the secret world. Since the Artisans Association chose to accept the former Secret Merchants Association members, we have been in a hostile relationship with the Dark Gold Association."
Beverly's responses were written on the page again, and after reading them, Dorothy continued writing.
"For now, it seems that you are generally better than the Dark Gold Society. The Dark Gold Society, which believes in the business god Dark Gold, can't beat you, the Artisan Society, in the business field. This is quite interesting..."
"Hehe... There are actually many reasons why we were able to suppress the Dark Gold Society. First, the original secret society was split, and we absorbed a part of it, and the Dark Gold Society is actually the remaining majority of the secret society.
"Secondly, because the Artisan Society has a bottom line when doing business and has areas that it will not touch, we are more likely to be accepted by official extraordinary organizations. As long as there is demand, there will be a market. The secret trading market will always exist, and the role of the trading platform must be played by people. For the church and the secret police of various countries, it is better to hand over this market to us who can at least sit down and talk with us rather than to the Dark Gold Society who has no bottom line and cannot be controlled.
"If the leadership of the entire market falls into the hands of the Dark Gold Society, a large number of rampant and unscrupulous secret transactions will make the cults in various countries become active, and the probability of vicious extraordinary events will increase sharply. Therefore, various official secret organizations headed by the church will tend to give us the leadership of the secret transaction market. Although we are not completely unwilling to trade with those cults, at least we will not engage in large-scale human trafficking. As long as we can meet the trading needs of the vast majority of people in the secret world, then they will not seek the Dark Gold Society.
"Therefore, in the eyes of official secret agencies in various countries, the Dark Gold Society is defined as a dangerous evil organization, and our existence is often tacitly allowed. The attitude of official agencies is also one of the main reasons why we can suppress the Dark Gold Society.
"As for the question you just mentioned about Dark Gold... In fact, there are many mysteries about the god Dark Gold. In history, his name appeared together with the Secret Council. There is very little information about him, and it is difficult for ordinary people to make any judgments about him... But I have said before that the rift in the Secret Council originated from the internal struggle of the upper echelons. After the internal struggle ended, the Noble Black Coin even claimed that he was the incarnation of Dark Gold.
"For a large organization with a good god state... this kind of internal strife should not happen. In the entire Fourth Epoch, almost no god has descended in the name of an incarnation. Therefore, in my opinion, it is still unclear whether this dark gold exists. Even if it does exist, it is probably not in a normal state."
Responding to Dorothy, Beverly's words continued to appear on the pages of "The Navigation of the Sea". After reading it, she understood why the Artisan Society was able to suppress the Dark Gold Society. Then, Dorothy continued to pick up the pen and began to write on the page.
"The Dark Gold Society is hostile to you, so do you think that the problem with the Troyes Artisans' stronghold was caused by them?"
Dorothy finished writing, and then waited quietly for the word "㫧" to sink into the page. After a while, Beverly's response appeared again.
"That's natural. We are hostile to the Dark Gold Society. They have been attacking us in all aspects, from commercial competition to armed clashes.
“For example, they often use their own abilities to quietly replace the base of the Artisan Guild in a city through infiltration and assassination. Then they will disguise themselves as members of our Artisan Guild and trade with other people involved in secrets in the city. While trading, they will collect information about the secret world of the entire city. After mastering the location of the customers, they will secretly go out to harvest the customers, their extraordinary resources, and even the customers themselves.
"After they harvest as much extraordinary resources as possible from a city in a short period of time in this way, they will immediately evacuate and choose the next target. In this way, they will not only harvest extraordinary resources, but also ruin the reputation of the Artisan Association in the local secret world, making it more difficult for the Artisan Association to rebuild a base here again, giving them the opportunity to come here and seize the secret field in the future. From the situation you described in Troyes before, this should be the situation they are facing now. Since you bought something from them, you should pay attention. The things you bought should be mixed with things like Dao Marks and Symbols. After they locate you, they will come to harvest you soon."
At an extremely fast speed, Beverly's words appeared on the pages of Dorothy's book as if they were typed on a typewriter. After reading the information, Dorothy breathed a sigh of relief and then continued to write in response.
"Thank you for your reminder, but it may be a little late. Those guys have been here before. They were two wallwalkers. I have already dealt with them."
"Oh, have you already taken care of it? That's good. Since they sent two wanderers here, it means they think highly of you. You have solved all these problems. That's amazing."
"Who do you think I am..." Dorothy wrote on the paper like chatting. As she wrote, she bit the tip of the pen and thought for a while, then continued writing.
"By the way, speaking of Wallwalkers, I have one more thing I want to ask you. Does the Dark Gold Society have any special secrets? They can make the Black Earth Wallwalkers that support the Shadow Stone become as hard as stone, and even a pistol can't penetrate them. Because of this, I couldn't deal with them in the first place, and I wasted a lot of spiritual energy."
Dorothy finished writing and then began to wait quietly for a response. After a short pause, Beverly's words appeared on the page again.
"Who told you that the wallwalkers are the shadows and the stone?"
Dorothy paused after seeing Beverly's response, and then immediately wrote.
"I heard it from a Ulster Security Bureau hunter. When I met him, he was being hunted by the Eight-pointed Nest's Wallwalker Killer. He told me when he was about to die. Isn't that right?"
"That's definitely not right. First of all, you have to know that the Wandering Wall branch is the most important inheritance branch of the Dark Gold Society. Other branches are rare, including the Eight-pointed Nest. So the killer you met at the beginning was probably not the Eight-pointed Spider, but a member of the Dark Gold. I have told you before that the Dark Gold has a wide range of business, including assassination for hire. As long as they have the courage, many people can hire Dark Gold's killers to kill people. The one you met should be a Dark Gold killer hired by the Eight-pointed Nest.
"Before the Dark Gold Society begins activities in a region, they often deliberately leak some false secret information to the secret circles in that region to confuse the public. After their actions are initially detected, the false information they release often includes some false information about the Wanderers, the most typical of which is to confuse the Wanderers' spiritual composition.
"I can tell you directly that the spiritual composition of the Wanderers is 㹏'stone' assisted by 'shadow' instead of 㹏'shadow' assisted by 'stone'. The Ulster hunter made the mistake because he was misled by the false information they spread in Ulster. For the official secret agency, if the spiritual composition of an extraordinary profession is misled, then the measures they formulate will also be misjudged. They can use these mistakes to gain favorable opportunities in the confrontation, just like you just lost unnecessary spirituality due to false information. They especially like to spread such rumors in the areas where they have just carried out activities to facilitate their actions.
"In the secret world, due to drug identification and covert activities, the flow of information in various secret circles is not smooth. The information gap between people is very large, and it is difficult for them to form a common sense and unified understanding. The Dark Gold Society often uses this information barrier to adopt many deceptive strategies. There are not many traces of the Dark Gold Society's activities in Putt, so even the secret police in Putt don't know enough about the Dark Gold Society. It is estimated that there are very few people who know the correct spiritual composition of the Wanderer, except for the old guy in Tivian."
Beverly's words appeared one by one on the pages of the book. Looking at this series of words, Dorothy couldn't help but be slightly stunned. She didn't expect that she was misled. The so-called wallwalkers were not "shadow" assisted by "stone", but "stone" assisted by "shadow"! They have second-level hardened skin, which can definitely block pistol bullets.
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Well... I have something to do tomorrow, so I'll be a bit busy here. Also, I'm a bit stuck and it's the beginning of the month, so I plan to take a day off to adjust.
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