Chapter 39 - The Revolution Was an Spreadsheet
Mr. Pell showed Mason how the Central Clearinghouse hid stolen fortune inside ordinary financial systems.
Insurance pools.
Risk models.
Sports derivatives.
Executive compensation.
Every Fate Well had a paper trail because the Nine Houses needed mortal institutions to move money around their magic.
"Why help us?" Ivy asked.
Pell looked at her.
"Because I am an auditor. Bad books offend me."
Tasha whispered, "I respect that more than I expected."
Pell wanted Mason to expose one regional House without combat.
Prove the system could be broken from both sides.
Their target was House Vale, which controlled Midwestern fortune through predictive insurance.
Mason used Karmic Appraisal on thousands of claims.
He found a pattern.
House Vale deliberately redirected bad fortune toward neighborhoods with low political influence, causing more losses and raising premiums.
Mason felt sick.
This was not flashy cultivation.
It was worse.
It looked normal.
They leaked the mortal evidence to regulators and the karmic evidence to independent sects.
Within twelve hours, House Vale's Fate Well lost half its incoming fortune.
[REGIONAL HOUSE INCOME CRIPPLED WITHOUT MARTIAL CONFLICT.]
[PATH EXPANSION: CIVIC CULTIVATOR.]
Then House Vale responded by sending its heir.
She walked into Pell's office carrying a briefcase and a sword.
"Which problem do you want first?" she asked.
Mason looked at Tasha.
"Sword."
"Definitely sword."
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