Becoming Their Guiding Spirit

# Chapter 144: Isn’t Lucas Reeve a person? How could he be a ghost? Angelina truly lived up to her reputation as a special messenger.

Though she had only been in the job for a year, she knew a fair number of inside stories and half-true rumors. Moreover, the transport fees for a special messenger were nothing to scoff at. Generally, they were far more expensive than ordinary couriers. After all, these messengers typically transported earth-shattering secrets and shouldered considerable risks themselves.

Angelina had heard many of these stories from her peers.

For example, Siracusa might just be unified in a few years.

Lady Sicily of the [Sicily] family was far too dominant. Even now, the other four Mafia families combined could only barely suppress the Sicily family; they were far from being able to completely eliminate this threat.

It seemed balanced on the surface.

In reality.

The undercurrents in Siracusa were turbulent.

The Sicily family had chosen to take a step back to bide their time and build their strength. They had already secretly amassed considerable power. Perhaps in a few years, these once-powerful Mafia families would either be annihilated or become vassals of the Sicily family.

As for the [Famiglia Venezia] Mafia, which Lisa’s mother belonged to.

Angelina had heard a rumor that Christian, the candidate for the head of [Famiglia Venezia], was not one person, but two. However, because the two looked nearly identical, the outside world only knew of one. Angelina had only recently learned of this and was originally considering whether to tell Miss Vulpisfoglia, who had, after all, saved her life.

But as a special messenger.

The most important thing was to maintain one’s credibility. A special messenger who lost their credibility would become a target for a joint manhunt by all the major Mafia families. After all, such a person knew far, far too much.

If what Angelina said was true.

Then.

Christian, the one Lisa’s mother served, was the one who was truly hiding the deepest.

However.

Since Lisa’s mother was still unconscious and her injuries were severe, the group decided not to tell her this news. Telling her too early would only make her anxious. It was better to say nothing. For Lisa, it was enough that her mother was safe. As for Siracusa and the families she served, Lisa didn’t care. The only reason she wanted to become stronger was to help her mother fulfill her dreams and share her burdens.

Still, it was no wonder that members of [Wolf Fang] had appeared in [Famiglia Venezia]’s territory. It turned out that several of the Mafia families had secretly joined forces to counter [Sicily].

”Oh, right, I have two more rumors from about a month ago...”

Angelina suddenly said in a low voice, ”I heard that a vassal family under the Sicily family was developing a new secret weapon in the wilderness outside Siracusa. Something went wrong, though, and the laboratory exploded. They then commissioned mercenaries from Blacksteel Worldwide. At the same time, the Sicily family’s manpower was tied up by the other three families, so [Wolf Fang] sent several hundred men and dozens of secretly trained ’Wolf Pack’ assassins to wipe out this vassal family of the Sicilies.”

”Afterward, it seems they attacked the Blacksteel Worldwide mercenaries and seized the secret weapon the Sicily family had developed.”

Lucas Reeve paused, a look of realization dawning on him.

Oh~

He was familiar with this plot. He’d even had a starring role in it.

”But...”

Angelina continued in a whisper.

”That’s the story circulating outside. However, I heard that the secret weapon never fell into the hands of [Wolf Fang]. Although it’s unclear what exactly happened, some say that the hundreds of elite Mafia members and dozens of secret assassins sent to pursue the Blacksteel Worldwide mercenaries all died in the wilderness. Their deaths were incredibly gruesome; some of them couldn’t even be found in one piece. Nobody knows what kind of weapon it was...”

Angelina spoke cautiously, as if the matter was a great secret.

And as the perpetrator.

Lucas Reeve just smiled silently the entire time.

What kind of weapon could it be? Just a cannon firing 5,000 rounds a minute plus some small Originium missiles.

In fact.

The High Priest had casually let loose a few bursts, using up more than half of Lucas Reeve’s ammunition stockpile from Sargon in one go. It stung a little.