Chapter 351 351: Untying Knots & Attack.

Kyle mobilized all his people to investigate everyone that Leo had told him to look at. The primal family youngsters had no idea that while they carried on their lives regularly, someone was watching them from the shadows.On the other side, Elvin Rai had began his incursion against the Primal Family companies on the financial market front. The young man was enraged, and he acted calmly, seeding traps at every step. He was not the only one to seek this method, Cherry had taken command of the finance department of the Cardinal Group.

There was an ancient saying, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Cherry was overwhelmed by anger like nothing else. When she came back to the office and Percie learned what happened, the two of them poured up their grievances and then teamed up to attack the Tyrant Group.

With Socrates confined to the hospital the group was full of holes. However, the Cardinal Group didn't act too fast, they waited very patiently, because the three people knew that if they acted too quickly, Bishop Primal that undying old bastard of the Primal Family would come to take command and they were not confident in handling that guy.

They were taking precaution to make sure that when they act, the Tyrant group suffers an even bigger hit. They wanted to make them feel the heat.

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Days passed and life carried on as it was, after a delay, the robot production was started once again, and the market received them with an even better response and demand. The Cardinal Group was going to donate a significant amount of money to the people. The people had all heard about the tragedy that befell the nine guards.

Leo had not make any public appearance since the funeral, he has confined himself to the house. He was cooking for the people, and playing with Lily, but everyone could sense that something was bothering him. After one week of the funeral, Lily was sitting with Leo in the backyard, the two of them were tending to the garden, and Lily would ask him a few questions which Leo replied with a smile.

He was very calm and patient, none of the people would be able to point out anything. Then Lily said, "Baba, how about we bring these flowers to grandma and grandpa?"

Her innocent question caused Leo to shiver slightly before he said, "Yes, we should go."

Lily nodded, then she looked at the time in his watch, and said, "If we go now, we would be able to get them some coffee as well."

Leo was surprised and then he chuckled and said, "Fine, shall we go make some then?"

Lily and Leo then made their way to the kitchen and brewed a couple of cups of coffee, and then the young man carefully packed them before changing his clothes. Lily had him wear a white shirt and beige pants with white shoes. She was dressed in a similar colors, and they drove all the way to the cemetery.

Lily held the flowers in her arms while the young man carried two cups of coffee that they made. When they reached the location of the graves, Leo placed the cups on the ground and then he rushed back to the office of the caretaker, and came back with a bucket of water and mops.

He cleaned the place, and lit up some incense to offer his prayers to his father and mother. Lily placed the flowers on the two graves and Leo placed the cups of tea. Lily then joined her hands and said, "Grandpa, Grandma, Lily brought you both the flowers grown in the backyard. Baba made you cups of coffee. Today, I have a reason to come here and see you. Some days ago, a bad guy came and harmed the people who worked with Baba, and although Baba caught the culprit and punished him, Baba is not doing well.

These days, he stays silent, and he doesn't smile much. Even when he does it feels like he is hiding something behind it. I have tried asking him, but he hesitates. Ma is busy with little sibling so Baba doesn't want her to worry, but he cannot hide it from me. So, I thought, if he cannot talk to me, maybe, he could talk to you about these things."

Leo was stunned to see what his daughter was talking about. He didn't realize that his reclusive behavior in the past few days have caused his child to feel his worried about him. Unknown to him, his eyes were brimming with tears and they were sliding down his cheeks. With the tears all the things that he was suffering also washed down slowly.

He knelt down beside Lily and lowered his head, he didn't cry bitterly but his eyes were tearing non-stop. Lily saw this and sighed in relief, this was something that Anastasia has told her, Leo was in shock and had not let out all the negativity that he had been bottling up in his mind.

He needed to let this out, and the only way for him to do that was to cry. Lily had been thinking a lot of things these past few days, her primary concern was should she make her father cry, and after brooding over this topic for days, she decided that it was necessary and then she was thinking how to do it.

Lily turned around to hug her, she knew that the only way to make Leo let go of the tension in his heart was to expose him to his own foundation that made him to be a man that he was today. The foundation lay with his parents, and so, she came here. Lily had discussed this thing with her grandmother at length over the past few days and finally she concluded this would be the place where they should come to.

Leo took a deep breath, and he cried for several minutes before he calmed down and patted her back. He took a deep breath and replied, "You little goblin, did you think of this way to make me feel better?"

Lily nodded and Leo whispered softly, "Thank you."

Lily patted his back and said, "Your welcome."

Leo chuckled lightly before he paid his respects to his parents and conveyed what happened recently to their spirits in his thoughts and then he stood up to leave with Lily.

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One more week passed, and the company published a report of how high the demand of the robots was. The military was willing to create a proper factory to produce the robots. Percie had agreed to the collaboration. The money channels were thickening and they were growing stronger as well.

The space flight technology has also improved to another level, and the military wanted to acquire it. The motive was clear, they wanted to develop a better fighter jet. However, the company denied and disclosed their plans that they wanted to develop the fighter jet in cooperation with them.

The military understood the business aspect of it and agreed. Cardinal Group was climbing steadily and they were expanding at a high speed, the company was opening offices and factories like they have found a money river. The channels from all over the world that they had invested in were rising and cashing in.

This was the charm of an advanced tech, everyone wanted a piece of it, but they had no chance. If the Cardinal company was to file a patent than after a few years the world will start imitating their tech. However, since the source code was uploaded in a way where the humans had no idea of what it was, none could find out anything about it.

The most obscure thing was that some people even came forward and said that Cardinal group was a cult that used the souls of dead people for their robots. Ofcourse, the company left that matter alone and took a funny jab at it but bringing their robot to the temple of the Goddess Of Mercy and had the priest their baptise the robot.

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After two months, the Sigil Council reached out to cooperate with the company in various projects and then Elvin and Cherry unloaded the ballistics of financial world that they have gathered onto the Tyrant Group. Many of their stakeholders had been bought out after the businesses faced trouble. They were not big troubles but small things that happened over and over again.

Socrates had been in nursing so he didn't think much of these things, but when he found out about the transactions, he was so angry that he almost got sent to the hospital one more time. Leo Cardinal and Elvin Rao, had become the stakeholders in the business, and while Leo Cardinal was his enemy, Elvin Rao was someone that the finance world feared.

Just when he was getting ready to counter, he received a news, nine of the most successful yet notorious descendants of the family went missing. Socrates felt his world collapse, but something told him, it was not the end, but the beginning.