Joining

The conference room door opened, and Charlotte entered with her secretary Ginny and John Wick.

Upon seeing that the visitor was Charlotte Doyle, Tony immediately rose from his seat, walked over to Charlotte, hugged her, and laughed, "Hey, buddy!"

Charlotte smiled and said, "Tony, it's been a long time."

Tony led Charlotte to a seat next to him, and the other shareholders frowned slightly at the sight.

Others had investigated the new shareholder, but knew nothing about him except that his name was Charlotte Doyle. Now that they saw that this new shareholder was also a friend of Tony, they knew that this meeting was not simple.

With everyone present, the shareholders' meeting officially began.

Before the conference, Tony somehow acquired all of Obadiah's shares, gaining control of the company. With the support of Charlotte, the largest individual shareholder, he became the chairman of Stark Industries with an absolute advantage and regained his power.

"Stark Industries has a new direction for transformation; the International Weapons Division will be permanently closed!"

At this point, one of the shareholders spoke up and asked, "Tony, we support you taking back control and researching what you like."

"But will the mechanical armor that was previously reported in the news become the company's new flagship product?"

Tony, seeing the greedy looks in the eyes of the other shareholders, said firmly, "I am Iron Man, Iron Man is me. This is my personal property and will not become part of the company."

"But I've found the direction for the company's transformation: the supply of large-scale clean energy."

"I believe that in the energy sector, Stark Industries will become a new behemoth, achieving far greater success than in the arms industry."

"After all, not everyone needs weapons, but everyone needs relatively cheap clean energy."

Watching Tony speak eloquently on stage, Charlotte fully supported his idea, after all, she just wanted to hitch a ride on his coattails.

Through Tony's series of policies, Charlotte learned that the other party had not given the company the Arc Reactor technology for free, but had only licensed a new type of Arc Reactor technology, and a large one at that.

Charlotte couldn't help but marvel at Tony's talent. He made a fortune licensing the company, and then another fortune selling energy. No wonder he was able to afford to build so many Mark Series later on.

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On the other side.

London Continental Hotel.

After Iruka hung up the phone, he began to think about his next move, just as Naruto ran in.

"Iruka-sensei, that Vampire Selene has woken up!"

Hearing Naruto's words, Iruka stood up and said, "Let's go take a look."

Upon arriving at Selene's room, the lights were on, and there were no windows. This was a room specially arranged by Iruka, and Michael was standing guard beside Selene.

Upon seeing Iruka arrive, Sasuke and Rock Lee called out, "Iruka-sensei!"

Iruka nodded, walked to Selene's bedside, and asked, "How's the memory retrieval going?"

Selene glanced at everyone in the room, knowing that these were people she couldn't afford to offend, and replied, "I obtained all of their memories, and I also learned that my enemy is Vampire, Viktor!"

After a moment's thought, Iruka asked, "Will Viktor's memories from over a thousand years ago have any effect on you?"

Selene glanced at Iruka, who had asked the question, and said with her head down, "His memories are coherent and have a sense of time, so they won't affect me. Besides, these memories are like files on a computer; I can just find the fragments when I need them. I won't become a different person by acquiring someone else's memories."

Iruka nodded in satisfaction upon hearing Selene's answer.

Looking at Selene and Michael in the room, Iruka thought for a moment before speaking, "Our organization is preparing to recruit you two into our ranks."

"And next, we plan to purge Vampire here, including the last remaining Elder Marcus, who will also be cleansed."

Upon hearing Iruka's words, Michael looked at Selene and then spoke up, "I'm willing to join you, but I don't know much about the organization or what I'd be doing. Before these changes, I was a surgeon."

Lying in bed, Selene spoke up, "I'd like to join!"

Selene knew, however, that she had no choice but to either join them or await death; after all, the words about purging the Vampire were practically a tacit agreement.

Naruto exclaimed excitedly when he heard that the two were going to join them, "Two more friends!"

Iruka nodded in satisfaction at their pragmatic answers, then said, "We are under the command of Lord Charlotte Doyle. You two, upon joining us, must return to New York to swear allegiance to Lord Charlotte."

Iruka then briefly explained Charlotte's sphere of influence and her identity.

After listening to the explanation, Selene asked, somewhat puzzled, "We've looked into the High Table; their power isn't even as strong as the Vampire '..."

In response to Selene's question, Iruka smiled and said, "This is just a convenient identity. I haven't integrated the entire High Table simply because it's unnecessary. For us, one Elder's seat is enough."

"What do we need to do?"

Iruka glanced at the two of them, then said, "We need your ability to gain memories by drinking their blood, which we can use to help us with some things."

"Furthermore, we will enhance your abilities, enabling you to be fearless of the sunlight and improve your overall strength."

"However, before that, we need you to provide information on the distribution of Vampire forces and your cooperation in first breaching the Vampire Castle in London."

Selene looked at everyone in the room and said, "My family was killed by Vampire. I've done many wrong things over the years, and I'm going to kill them to avenge my family!"

"The Vampire have three Elder: Amelia, Viktor, and Marcus. You have already killed the other two, except for Marcus."

"But in terms of strength, neither Amelia nor Viktor combined are a match for Marcus."

Hearing that the two of them combined were no match for Marcus, Iruka and the others didn't care at all, and even Sasuke's eyes showed a hint of interest.

Seeing that no one showed any change, Selene continued, "There are many Vampire, and they are widely distributed. Besides the places where Viktor and Marcus sleep, there are many other strongholds, mainly the three major branches."

"These are the Northern Europe Branch, the Western Branch, and the Eastern Branch, with the Eastern Branch being the largest. The headquarters of the Vampire Council is located here."

Selene recounted everything she knew about the Vampire territory and its history.

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