Lord Xander’s eyes immediately glazed, distant. “Because I was twenty-two, broke, and drowning in my father’s debts. Dublin, 1998. My dad—Seamus Xander—ran the Irish Travelers’ smuggling rings.”“Heroin from the city through Shannon Airport. One night, the Garda raided our warehouse. Da’s gut-shot, bleeding out on crates of Kalashnikovs. I’m holding his hand when a man steps from the shadows—tall, silver hair, eyes like winter.”“Lord Vandel Offers me a deal: work off Da’s debt, or the Travelers vanish. I signed. First job? Smuggle a crate of West-manufactured guidance chips to a deadlock location—chips that would later guide SCUDs into the most remote places of the country. I didn’t know. By the time I did, I was in too deep.”Lord Xander immediately said as he rattled off the missions like rosary beads, as if he had actually numbered them from the very start.“Regrets? Let me take you through the ledger, Rico. Not a list. A confession. I’ll walk you down every corridor I built for

Lord Xander immediately took a deep breath and stared at Rico, the leader of his Black Dragon Syndicate group, he slowly shook his head. “Rico, that is not entirely true, let me finish up with the missions that I was listing shortly.” Lord Xander immediately said, his voice was laced with a mix of determination and curiosity as he stared at Rico before continuing. “Rico, we also had mission Twenty-Three:The Condo Collapse. Structural sabotage—corroded rebar, falsified inspections. I bribed the HOA with Bahamian shell companies. 98 dead. Vandel bought the waterfront. Profit: $1.1 billion. I sent the survivors life jackets. Used. Mission Twenty-Four:The Pipeline Dirge.” “Underwater drones, Limpet mines. I dove the Baltic in a rented submersible. Pipelines ruptured. Lord Vandel cornered LNG. Profit: €8.4 billion. I still taste diesel when I swim, that was actually the first day I almost died, that was the day that I also saw my death with my own eyes.” “Rico, very funny enough,we al

Rico, the leader of Lord Xander's Black Dragon Syndicate group, took a deep breath and stared at his boss, Lord Xander.“Lord Xander, this is completely unbelievable, the Vandel's are unessentially ruthless.” His voice was a bit above whispers as he spoke.Lord Xander, his boss and owner of the Black Dragon Syndicate group didn't say a word he only stared at Rico, before continuing.“Rico, Anya was born in Novosibirsk, 1985, in the dying days of the older union.”“Her father was a particle physicist; her mother cleaned laboratories. She taught herself coding on a stolen ZX Spectrum at age seven. By twelve, she’d hacked the local power grid to keep her apartment warm during winter blackouts. MIPT scholarship at sixteen.”“PhD in cryptographic systems at twenty-one. Recruited by Kaspersky, then by the FSB. Burned when she refused to plant backdoors in civilian antivirus software.”“She went dark. Surfaced in 2017 on the dark web as “Siren”—the voice that could make servers sing.”“Lord

“What are you talking about, Lord Xander?”“Do you actually mean that there is more?” Rico immediately asked, his voice was barely above whispers as he held his face.To Rico, it was just as if Lord Xander, his boss, was telling him horror tales featuring Vandel's evil family.“Rico, I'm being very serious here, we are definitely going to be in deep shit if we don't get our act together at the moment.”“Rico, we are going to be in deep shit just like Kraken, if we don't fix this all up.” Lord Xander immediately said, he was barely above whispers as he spoke and stared at Rico, the leader of his Black Dragon Syndicate group.Rico was immediately shocked, as he stared at Lord Xander, his boss and his leader.“Kraken?” Rico immediately asked. His face was etched in shock and bewilderment.“Yes, Kraken.”“Kraken, Real Name: Dr. Lars “Kraken” Hansen.” Lord Xander immediately said, his voice was laced with a mix of determination and curiosity.“Lars Hansen was born in 1975 in Tromsø, Norway

“Rico, focus, we have work to do.” Lord Xander immediately said as he stared at Rico who was still looking in the direction of the just arrived Doctor Anna of the West family medical team.“By now, Master West would really be thinking of how to come back to our location and get back the request he had asked of us.” Lord Xander immediately said as he stared at Mr Freeman, Tape, Lily and Victor Langston West, who is now called Master West, as they talked with Doctor Anna and the rest of the West family medical team.Rico now looked more afraid at the moment, his face still etched in shock and bewilderment as he thought of the best possible thing to do at the moment.“Rico, before Master West gets here to demand our stand, whether we be for him, the West family or Lord Vandel and his evil granddaughter, Tai Vandel.” Lord Xander immediately said, his voice was laced with a mixture of confusion and anxiety.“Lord Xander, Master West is looking this way.” Rico immediately said, His voice wa