After following Malecia out of the secret area, his subordinates asked with worried faces, "Is it okay to antagonize that person like that?”

Malecia looked indifferently at his anxious subordinates. His nonchalant eyes made them all shrink back at the same time.

"It's fine. Do you think I've never worked with stuck-up magicians like that? For punks like that, if you don’t come off strong from the beginning, you’ll never be able to get any work done.”

For those types of people, if you didn’t show that you’re on the same level, they’d come out high-handed throughout the work and wouldn’t even pass on the proper information. Rather, if you become enemies from the beginning, you and the other would end up finishing the work quickly then try to kill each other, so there was no interruption in the work.

Of course, very rarely, would they put work on the back burner and try to kill you by digging a trap. However, in such cases, Aries would punish them directly, so no one rashly tried to backstab the other during work.

Thanks to that, whenever Malecia met a collaborator like Jiren, he had to fight with his life on the line after the work was finished, but the work itself would be completed without...