Chapter 377 Chapter 377 – Private Meeting
"I'm glad that we finally found some time to talk," Julian said as he led Markus up the staircase.
"Agreed," the governor said. "Your absence during the big meetings might not raise many eyebrows, but people might start to suspect things if you keep being absent."
Julian laughed in discomfort. "Yes, I know. Sorry. It's just very difficult right now due to Dark Dream's status."
"If I leave, any random Expert from a certain Manufacturer might come and free our Specters. I don't think either of us wants that."
Markus didn't seem surprised by what Julian said.
Naturally, he knew exactly what was going on.
He knew that all the Manufacturers were essentially warring with each other in secret.
Sadly, there was not much he could do about it.
The only thing he could do was to make it illegal and punish whoever was caught, which increased the risk associated with starting an attack.
But that couldn't stop them.
The only way to stop these attacks was to increase the level of surveillance.
However, that would anger the Manufacturers since that would make it extremely difficult to break the law.
Naturally, every Manufacturer was breaking the law in some way, and the governor knew that.
Sadly, if he tried too hard to catch every illegal thing going on, the Manufacturers might work together to dethrone him.
Markus was most likely the strongest Extractor in the city with Aria Light being his only competitor, but not even he could resist four different Heroes attacking him at the same time.
Because of that, it was important to give the Manufacturers a bit of freedom.
As long as they had some freedom to do what they wanted and compete, they wouldn't take the significant risk of attacking the city's government.
Markus knew very well that Anatomy was looking at Dark Dream very closely right now.
However, he also couldn't publicly acknowledge that he knew.
After all, he was supposed to uphold the law, and if people realized that he was secretly letting some crimes go, they would become furious and call corruption.
The two of them reached Dark Dream's seventh floor, and they saw Nick waiting in front of Julian's office.
Markus nodded to Nick in greeting, and Nick politely nodded back.
Julian opened the door and walked inside.
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