Chapter 157 - 152. Weight of A Name
Zein thought they were done talking about the incident or the spiteful clan, but as the car climbed through the winding road to the peak of the hill, Bassena suddenly muttered with narrowed eyes.
"I think...there’s someone...or some force behind the Vaski and the Golden Viper," the esper said, biting his cheek to suppress his anxiety.
"What...like a sponsor?" Zein responded with a raised brow. "Like with Trinity and Mortix?"
"Yeah..."
Zein glanced at the esper, trying to figure out the reason behind Bassena’s concern. Did the esper think that even with the Golden Viper gone and the remnant of the Vaskis driven away from the Eastern Federation, the sponsor might still try to find the vessel?
If they somehow still obsessed with that, they might investigate enough to find Todres one day, or the remnant of the Templars, or figured out that the seed’s characteristic was the brilliant, jewel-like blue eyes. In that case, with Zein’s striking blue eyes circulating in the media...
"Do you have a guess?"
Bassena tapped on the steering wheel while racking his brain. In hindsight, people would think the Golden Viper’s sponsor was the Vaski clan. But Bassena, through two decades of growing up there, could sense that the clan was, essentially, just a subordinate of someone--something. It could be a person, it could be an organization, it could be another family...
He recalled seeing VIP ’guests’ came to the main mansion from time to time, and the Golden Viper would have a mission immediately after that. Of course, they could be clients, but sometimes Bassena felt like there were divisions that never did profitable activities, as if they were only made to fulfill some duties.
Like a hound.
Bassena wouldn’t know, because his job was to raid dungeons and become their ’face’. He never really thought about it more, and that sponsor seemed to back off when Bassena raised hell, because the Mallarcs and Mortix were involved. Seemed like cutting a snake’s tail was better than facing the head of a phoenix.