With hardly any effort, Han Shuo learned the entire story through his Xuan Demons. Florida of the Rainbow Sickle Mercenary Group had orchestrated the attack on Trunks and the Soul Annihilation Mercenary Group, and the participants included not only the Monroe Family, but also Loretta of the Jialuo Mercenary Group.
There were no eternal friends, only eternal interests. That saying laid bare the essence of it!
Back when Loretta and Florida were vying for power, Han Shuo and Trunks had stood with Loretta. On the night four factions besieged Loretta in Small Valley, Han Shuo had intervened and helped him escape alive.
From then on, the Jialuo Mercenary Group and the Soul Annihilation Mercenary Group had maintained close ties. Loretta and Trunks had cooperated many times, and to outsiders, the two mercenary groups had all but formed an alliance.
However, with the Soul Annihilation Mercenary Group's rapid growth and Han Shuo's soaring prestige in the Lancelot Empire, the group had actually become the fifth major power in Sun Radiance Valley. Recently, after Trunks killed Butcher Gustav, unease had swept through the valley. Loretta and Florida, previously the two men most likely to take control of Sun Radiance Valley, had finally realized something was wrong.
When their own interests were threatened, friendship and alliances proved as fragile as politicians' promises, easily torn apart. Florida and Loretta hit it off at once. Since Han Shuo had gravely wounded Adam Monroe last time, he too was more than happy to join this long-planned, sinister undertaking.
As a result, on his way back from Janet's, Trunks had been ambushed by Loretta and the others. Every mercenary accompanying him had been wiped out, while Trunks himself had been captured alive and imprisoned deep inside that hidden cave, guarded by experts jointly dispatched by the major