The Martial Unity

"There are several issues that we are facing, however," Sierra pointed out. "For one, the wealth needed to commission all these Martial Senior assassins will not go unnoticed. While we have extremely secure official channels, we cannot use official channels, considering the nature of the commission we are making. The Royal Family collaborating with foreign assassins to take out a domestic asset is a scandal that is bordering on treason. It will shatter your campaign."

The four Royals considered her words.

She had a point; while the Royals had access to a small share of the titanic Royal treasury as well as the wealth from their patrons, allies, benefactors, and partners, all of it was legal and official revenue that was above board and transparent.

They would face great suspicions from the Martial Union in their faction if that wealth, within their factions, was known to be going to a dubious source. They could not use their faction's official financial staff for something this sensitive and delicate. The patrons of their faction had access to the financial statements of the Randal, Rafia, Ranea, and Raemina Foundations so that they could have a good understanding of how their money was being used.

If they found that shady foreign assassination guilds and freelancer assassins were recipients of their money for confidential reasons, there would be more than just a few questions.

"We will have to use other channels," Prince Randal narrowed his eyes.

"I have a proposal," Princess Rafia remarked. "We should rely on the Underworld. Specifically, the Schambiei Mafia."

The three Royals narrowed their eyes in response.

gain wind of these transactions and commissions," Princess Rafia told them. "What we need is a third-party organization with high

took over the

and other resources. The Schambiei Mafia specialized in any and all illegal financial

law required all international transactions to be reported and recorded. The purchase of illegal services from abroad could thus never occur legally. In fact, the fact that the donor foundations of the four royals had transacted with criminal organizations like assassin guilds was enough to

criminals and shady businesses that weren't entirely clean. The

Mafia came in, swooping in to

being reported and recorded under Kandrian protocol. They did not actually

laundered and deposit it in their reserve inside the Kandrian Empire. A branch of the mafia outside of the Kandrian Empire would then take the same exact amount out of their reserve and supply

actual gold traveled inside

amount of gold in

transferred. All the Schambiei Mafia had to do was accept the gold and inform their foreign

abroad into the Kandrian Empire, to ensure that their two branches possessed balancing

footprint.

for each transaction than the equivalent

Schambiei Mafia offered became so incredibly popular that it became the richest syndicate in the