Chapter 15 - The Folding Chair Technique
Tasha had freed herself by stealing a key, breaking a broom, and lying to two guards until each thought the other had betrayed them.
Mason was impressed.
The Ledger was more impressed.
[NON-CULTIVATOR HAS MANIPULATED OUTCOME USING SOCIAL PROBABILITY.]
[POTENTIAL DISCIPLE DETECTED.]
"Absolutely not," Mason said.
Tasha swung the folding chair into another guard.
"What are you talking about?"
"Nothing."
Madam Zero appeared above them on the warehouse catwalk.
She clapped.
"Lou always did collect irritating people."
Ivy stepped forward.
"Why do you want me?"
"Because your misfortune can crack the Aurora Crown's Fate Well."
Mason frowned. "Isn't that what we want?"
Madam Zero smiled.
"Not before I drain it."
There it was.
Not freedom.
A hostile takeover.
Madam Zero belonged to another House.
The Nine Houses fought constantly, but ordinary people lost regardless of which family controlled the wheel.
Mason felt the Ledger heat against his chest.
[PHILOSOPHICAL ALIGNMENT DETECTED.]
[LOU AVERY'S PATH: HOUSELESS FORTUNE.]
[NEW LONG-TERM QUEST: BECOME AN UNREGISTERED HOUSE.]
Mason stared.
"A house with one guy?"
Tasha raised the folding chair.
"Two."
Ivy sighed. "Apparently three."
Madam Zero stopped smiling.
"Children."
Behind her, forty cultivators stepped from the shadows.
Mason checked the odds.
0.7%.
He grinned.
"Finally. A number worth working with."
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