The accountant came, and the accountant left.
Then, two days later, the accountant came again, bringing a new contract.
After a brief discussion, neither side had any objections to the terms, and both felt they had made a killing.
After Ji Jue signed it, the accountant pulled a knife from his coat. He breathed on the hilt, then slammed it down onto the paper, leaving behind a mottled, ferocious Sword-crossed Mask Mark.
In the name of the Homecoming Knights, they entered into a contract with Ji Jue. The Sacrificial Master and the Horde stood above as witnesses.
It did not possess the coercive force of Celestial Origin, but the consequences of breaching it were no less severe.
A contract founded upon an Inheritance Sacrifice meant that if the Homecoming Knights broke their promise, they would immediately suffer the Sacrificial Master's punishment and be coldly rejected by the Horde.
If Ji Jue was the one to violate the contract, though, it didn't matter much... it would merely mean that they would become irreconcilable enemies from that day onward.
Unless the very last member of the Homecoming Knights died, the blood feud would never end.
Once the contract was signed, Ji Jue had risen from a former customer to a distinguished friend of the Red Federation and a strategic partner of the Homecoming Knights. Put simply, he was now a major patron on par with the Lou Clan, a VIP user of DiDi Hitting People.
From now on, anything he needed could be hired at twenty percent off. The Homecoming Knights would come at his call and leave at his command, guaranteed to do good work without being a nuisance!
Convenient as it was, though, something about it still felt off...
Too heavy. Far too heavy!
At every turn, it was "for