RISE OF EROS

Vocgo wasn't stupid and knew that his friend was trying to get his support, but he still played hard to get it. What Oslo didn't know was that Vocgo was more than willing to participate, because being a grocery merchant, eliminating Andrew was the same as eliminating Candice who was his biggest competitor.

Certainly, with the deteriorated relationship between Candice and Marquis Valoide, Vocgo's business had increased, however, it was a reality that Candice had a very well-structured company, so, despite this circumstance, she was still a strong merchant in the empire.

That is why, Vocgo not only wanted to put her out of business, he wanted to take over her business, so without revealing much of his urgency to Oslo he agreed to help him. Then they began to plan how to attack Andrew and Candice.

Having attacked Candice before and having failed, Vocgo has not been idle since then. He had thoroughly investigated Candice and Andrew, so he knew that the Cannaris Palace was a strange place.

It was not difficult for him to obtain the information that within that establishment there was an extremely powerful expert and that as long as they were in that place it would be difficult to touch them.

Although his information was not entirely correct, since there were no other experts in the Cannaris Palace apart from Castor and Oliver, however, everything pointed to the fact that an expert really existed and therefore they planned to assume that was the case.

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The point was that Vocgo knew that in the Cannaris Palace, it would be almost impossible to attack them, so he proposed to Oslo that they should attack the other businesses first and force them to leave that place.

His plan was simple. They would attack the caravans that brought the products that Candice sold in her store. This way, she would have to go out and take charge of the situation and that would be when they would attack.

He intended to get Candice out, capture her, and with her in custody force Andrew to hand over the formulas for all of his products. Obviously, they would also take advantage of this situation to eliminate the two of them.

This way not only would they have the formulas, but Vocgo could take over Candice's businesses. It was a win-win situation, so Oslo and Vocgo closed the deal and began gathering their forces.

It hadn't been long since Oslo left the Vocgo house when a Shadow agent came to notify Oliver of what they had learned. Although they could not hear the conversation of these two and therefore did not know the specific plans, there were some things that they were able to conclude.

They could see that after Oslo left, he began gathering his men and even hiring some mercenaries. Vocgo made the same movements, so Shadow's agents immediately understood that they were preparing to attack them.

It was easy to deduce this since they knew that Oslo had bad intentions toward Andrew, and Vocgo towards Candice. Furthermore, the fact that Oslo sought out this man right after having his altercation with Andrew made it obvious that they had talked about him.

Furthermore, the fact that they gathered mercenaries indicated that they were planning to move against someone and Andrew was the most likely person to be attacked by these two.

When Oliver found out about this, he immediately arranged a meeting with Andrew and everyone else within Andrew's trusted group. This time Gastón, Erick, and Canna were also present.

They had already been informed of the situation, so when Oliver called them, they didn't take long to meet at the office. Oliver did not mince words and began to tell them what Shadow's agents had found out.

Everyone listened in silence to Oliver's report. Although it was not very long, it did contain valuable information. Once he finished telling everything, silence still reigned inside the office.

They were internalizing the information. Everyone had different feelings about what they had heard, but Candice was the first to speak, "What do we do?"

No one responded to the question, but everyone turned to look at Oliver. Everyone knew that Oliver was not only the most powerful in the place, but that he was the most experienced in the art of war, after all, he was a former general.

Feeling everyone's gaze, Oliver organized his thoughts and began to explain what he believed would be the movements of the enemies, "First of all, I think they will attack Candice's businesses."

Everyone was surprised at Oliver's words because none of them could understand the reason why he thought that. "Why do you think that?" Candice asked again and Oliver continued his explanation.

"Although they don't know how Cannaris Palace works, they surely know that this place is difficult to attack. It is not difficult for wealthy men like them to find information on how we can expel people from this establishment, without them realizing it."

Oliver paused and continued, "Since they know that, unless they are stupid they won't attack this place." Everyone was silent again and this time it was Andrew who intervened, "What you mean is that they will attack Candice's businesses, to make us leave, right?"

"That's what I think they're going to do," Oliver said, adding, "It's the best move they can make right now. Think about it, if they gather that many mercenaries, they cannot attack within the city, as it would attract the attention of the city's public forces."

"That means they will attack my caravans," Candice exclaimed, noting the implications of Oliver's words. "That's what I think," Oliver said with a tone of assurance.

Then it was Gaston who spoke, "I think Mr. Oliver is right. It is a simple plan, but logical and effective." "Well, knowing this we should prepare. Do you have any countermeasures?" Andrew asked.

"Well, it's not complex. We have two options," Oliver said and without waiting for someone to ask, he began to explain, "First, we can send Castor and Erick to protect the caravans and prevent their plan from moving forward."

"This way we will truncate their plans, but it will be difficult to deal with them since they will not lead this assault," Oliver continued. "What's the second option?" Andrew asked and Oliver replied, "Play their game and set a trap for them."

"What do you mean?", This time it was Castor who asked and Oliver continued expressing his ideas, "We can let them attack the caravans and pretend that we fell into their trap, then, we will leave the Palace of Cannaris as they want."

"We will lose some money, but we can take advantage of the fact that they will move to attack us, to counter them," Oliver added. After saying this, everyone fell silent again as if thinking about which option they should take.

After a few minutes of silence, Candice spoke again, "I think we should go with the second option. Certainly, we will lose a good amount of money, but it is better to eliminate these pests quickly."

"I also agree with Sister Candice," Castor added. Everyone seemed to prefer the second option, as they agreed with Candice's words. Andrew noticing this, also nodded and said, "Well, then we will take the second option."

Andrew paused briefly and added, "Oliver, establish an action plan to minimize losses and prevent these bastards from escaping our network. If you can capture them that would be great, I want to see them in person, but if it is difficult to do it, killing them is fine too."

Oliver nodded as he said, "Don't worry young master, I'll take care of everything. Do you want to know the established plan?", to which Andrew shook his head and said, "No, I'm not very good at this, so I'll leave it to your discretion."

"Organize this matter with Castor, Erick, Gastón, and Vala, I trusted you," Andrew added and ended the meeting. Although Aki and Marie could also be part of this operation, Andrew did not include them because they were now mothers of small children and he could not allow anything to happen to them.

Besides, Andrew had complete trust in Oliver and the others, so they weren't necessary. Aki and Marie wanted to retort, but it wasn't just Andrew who stopped them, all of them had similar thoughts as Andrew, so, with everyone against them, Aki and Marie had no choice but to stay out of this operation.

Oliver and the others immediately left to plan their next moves, while Andrew and his wives remained in the office talking about other topics, more specifically, Nuru gel.

Andrew was telling them how they could do business with this gel and Candice, along with Carolina, who had better business sense, immediately agreed.

On the other hand, Helena asked a question that made them doubt, "If we do this, wouldn't we harm Nadila and her pleasure house?". Candice and Carolina immediately remained silent, because her speculation was not without foundation and although selling the Nuru gel was more lucrative, they could not neglect this pleasure house that Nadila runs, because Andrew had plans for it.