Since the Machinist is the leader of his gang and there is no one else in his gang, banning him from the game means that his whole gang will be disbanded. This also means that his territory will become free for the taking.
The removal of the Five Gears gang means that two more districts will open up. These two districts will be vied for by the Golden Hammer gang and the neighbor of the Five Gears gang, who Cedric used to support.
Between these two gangs, Sir Kriss could already tell who would win the open and fair fight for the territories. So he can determine that the sanction and the punishment of the machinist will benefit the Golden Hammer gang.
This didn’t help to diminish the anger he felt towards the Golden Hammer gang. He felt more and more that he should do something to punish them. But he also knew that it was a bad idea.
He could only sigh in frustration and rush to his study. Then he sat down to think on the matter.
He had three options, which have various benefits. The first option was to seek vengeance. It will come with the benefit of satisfaction if successful, but it might lead to more loss if unsuccessful.
His second option was to go ahead with the truce he wanted with the Golden Hammer gang. This truce might allow him to use the Golden Hammer gang to achieve some things in the game, such as helping his children to win the game and the future games.
After all, the Golden Hammer gang is clearly powerful. It would be a bad idea to make them a powerful enemy while it would be a good idea to make them a powerful ally.
The things he could do with such a powerful ally flashed through his memory rapidly and made his eyes light up. But he didn’t rush to make a decision yet. He still went on to consider his last option.
The third option was to wait and see. If he holds back in making a decision, he won’t gain anything in the meantime, but he won’t lose anything either.
However, by waiting and seeing, he can acquire more information that will help him make a better decision in the future. The wait time will also let him calm down and diminish his anger, which will be conducive for making a decision not influenced by negative emotions.
He spent the better part of the day thinking about the matter. He couldn’t come to a conclusion, so he decided to do something productive like checking the accounts of his numerous businesses.
This was actually him taking the third option. He just didn’t want to admit to that because he was angry for now.
He let his mind regain peace as it wandered within the ocean of numbers in the account books. Unfortunately, his leave didn’t last long.
He could hear the thumping sound of angry footsteps marching towards his study. And from the sounds, he could tell that it was Celine and Cedric’s mother that was coming to him to complain.
He sighed and said, “Here we go again.”
While this was going on, the noble families of Reinfield City announced a sanction. They announced that in light of Cedric’s offense, they have decided to ban secret attacks and sabotages on one another.
They also announced that the Five Gears gang had to be disbanded. This announcement surprised Sir Kris because it wasn’t what they had discussed earlier.
This order was slightly worse than forcing the machinist to step down because if he had people in his gang, this order to disband would have affected them too. But since there was no one else in his gang aside from him, the order to disband only affected him.
So this order to disband was more harsh. However, the noble families forget to ban the machinist for life.
According to the initial plan, they should have banned him specifically and ensured that he would never be able to participate in the games for life. But now, it seems they decided to be lenient with him.
When Sir Kris figured this out, he shook his head and said, “They don’t want to offend the epic gang leaders and still want to keep using them as free labor. If they can change their mind about some rank 4 machinist, then I should change my mindset towards the Golden Hammer gang. The Golden Hammer gang is at least stronger than the machinist.”
The announcement affected a lot of people. The effect was positive for few people and negative for many people. But for Sir Kriss, the announcement made him lean towards the second option that he had in mind about how to deal with the Golden Hammer gang.
Many of the gangs and their leaders sighed in relief when they heard the announcement. The announcement doesn’t affect them personally, but it will ensure that someone won’t secretly hire propagators of disorder to clear them out one day. For this they are glad.
But there are some gangs that this announcement affects directly. The Golden Hammer gang is one of them.
The territory beside the Golden Hammer gang is now open for the taking, so they could expand the size of their territory from 5 districts to 7 districts and become the undisputed largest gang.
After many people thought of this, their mood became bad. Even the ones whom the announcement didn’t affect directly and had previously sighed in relief became sullen when they considered that the Golden Hammer gang was about to get another boon after Rack’s suicidal attack.
The prevalent emotion in the outer city became jealousy. Many people became jealous of the Golden Hammer gang and wished them bad luck.
They weren’t happy for the Golden Hammer gang at all. And because of the recent ban, they couldn’t secretly sabotage the Golden Hammer gang without opening themselves up to severe punishment that would make the attempt not worth it.
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