Not, Are You Two Playing Russian Doll?

"Something's wrong. Why have all my recent arrangements failed?" Mara keenly sensed that something had changed.

It seemed some force was secretly targeting him, yet it was exceedingly hidden and slippery; he simply could not catch it.

Lu Xingshi was the first to be ruled out. The other man was immensely powerful and had no need for such methods.

"So... someone has noticed something?" Mara perceived the subtle to know the greater, immediately fixing the suspicion upon himself.

Judging from the other party's actions, this was certainly not about profit. It was more likely aimed at his arrangements, so there was a considerable chance that his identity had been exposed.

"Since the other party has noticed my identity, yet has not acted at once..."

"Then... do they not dare move against me because of strength, or because of status?"

He had only these two protective talismans. Setting strength aside for the moment, his public identity as a Grand Arcane Treasure Master was not particularly dazzling. There were quite a few Grand Arcane Treasure Masters in the Federation, and the gap between their upper and lower limits was considerable.

His identity as a senator, on the other hand, was his true trump card. Standing at the peak of power and able to mobilize the Federation, that colossal machine of humanity—that was true strength.

Accordingly, he was also bound within that vast machine, destroying it bit by bit from the inside out.

"Putting those two factors aside for now, since they do not dare strike directly, that means they are operating in the shadows."

Mara opened a map and swiftly turned the locations of his ruined arrangements into a network.

"Starting from the earliest location..."

Very quickly, he circled out an approximate area.

"Quan Prefecture?" His eyes narrowed as he finally marked