As Lith finished speaking, Ruo Zi immediately knelt on the ground and bowing, she apologized, stating,
"I once again apologize for my subordinate's incompetence, Sir Ray. What has happened shall never repeat again and I do request you to let bygones be bygones."
She then side eyed the others and noticing the Chief's expression, everyone knelt and bowed as well.
Lith, looking at them, said calmly, "get up. I understand. Come sit, we still need to finish the discussions."
This was getting dragged for longer than Lith hoped and there was no amusement in watching a few people apologize.
It was better to wind up the discussions and get things done.
Ruo Zi thanked Lith and sitting down opposite to him, she first stated,
"I'll be the one handling the affairs from now. Here's my number. Sir Ray can call anytime on it."
Mo's expression darkened as he saw this happen. Being kicked out from his job, Mo knew what it meant.
He had fucked up!
Mo couldn't say anything to Ruo Zi as well since she was at the top brass. He could only wait and see what else would happen with him for his mistakes.
Had he known Lith was some important person in front of whom even Ruo Zi needed to bow, he would've never doubted him or the two people with him.
But now it was too late and he couldn't only wait and see what would happen to him and what judgement the upper echelons would bring.
Lith nodded listening to Ruo Zi. He didn't care who it was that was handling his affairs as long as the rewards were given and the work was done.
Lith laidback and Ralph was the one who started discussing things with Ruo Zi.
Finally, after a long talk, Ruo Zi realized that the three people in front weren't offended by their mistakes and were really calm and easy going.
They were the ones who the beastkins seeked support from and it was the beastkins who weren't offering proper benefits for the work from the three.
Although Ruo Zi was angry with the idiots handling this affair, she knew she couldn't do much about it since they didn't know that the person they were dealing with was a Black Card Holder.
The three also appeared really young and easy going people which didn't align with the high and mighty prowess they held. The card was something that Ruo Zi imagined only someone at the top of a main race would hold and not some random person.
But then again, she didn't know who the three in front were and what their background was. So it was better to consider them powerful to be safe.
Ruo Zi also had to give it to Mo that he did indeed do a good job for coming across these three and finding them. Getting help from a Black Card Holder increased their chances of solving the disputes by many folds.
It was almost a guarantee that someone of this calibre could solve all their problems.
Ruo Zi thus offered the best benefits she could and closed the deal with Ralph.
The deal stated that the benefits would be given at three different times.
First would be now, that is, before the work is done. Second would be when the dispute is solved slightly and third would be when the dispute is fully solved.
The rewards were hefty and the deal that they signed stated that these three won't take the final reward if the dispute wasn't solved fully. They'll only take the other two.
The rewards were also made in such a way that there were more benefits at the third stage rather than the first two. The first stage had the lowest benefit there was as compared to the other two.
But the rewards were far better than what Mo was going to offer.
Listening to their conversation made Mo dizzy as he couldn't believe how much the beastkins were offering.
Mo had gotten a limit for how much he could allow the three to take from the higher ups, but the same wasn't the case with Ruo Zi.
Ruo Zi was a big shot. She could make the decisions on her own as she was from one of the four great families. Not only that, her reputation in her own family was too high for anyone to oppose her and thus, she held great power.
Ruo Zi felt relieved after the deal was done. She immediately left, not wanting to stay with the three people for long and also because she was really angry with Mo. She was going to give Mo and everyone involved with Lith's incident a good beating to let them know what wrong they had done.
After the beastkins were gone, Lith looked at Ralph and said,
"Not bad, not bad. It was a good deal."
Ralph nodded. "Now we have a production house of our own."
According to the first deal, they were given ten best animators and artists from the Beast Kingdom. They could also open up a studio for free and hire anyone they wanted as long as their studio was based in the Beast Kingdom.
Dennis, after being silent for so long, chimed in asking, "What are we naming our studio?"
"Dennis Studios." Lith joked.
Ralph smiled hearing that whereas Dennis wrinkled his nose and said, "It would be nice to have a studio of my name but why does it sound so crap?"
"Just name it whatever. Afterall, once a name becomes famous, even if it's crap, it'll be revered and thought highly of." Lith said.
Dennis nodded. "Yeah, I know. Like the famous studio is simply called bones. I wonder what they were thinking to name it like that."
Lith shrugged and took a sip of tea. As he tasted it, he thought to himself while looking at it, 'the blood of my wives tastes better than tea.'
Suddenly, he became conscious of his thoughts and continued to think, 'I am having thoughts about blood. It seems I am fully assimilated into my vampire identity. Nice.'
Lith then looked at Dennis who was looking at him and waiting to hear a reply.
Lith simply said, "just name it what you want. Don't look at me, I am not going to do it."
Lith hadn't named anything yet and he was not sure how his naming sense was. It was better to not answer than to get made fun of by Dennis.
Dennis knitted his brows and went into deep thoughts. It seems nobody was going to name the studio and the responsibility fell on him.
'Tsk. So much work.' Dennis thought to himself. He then looked around in search of inspiration.
Lith and Ralph chatted together while Dennis searched for inspiration to name the studio. Finally, not getting anything, he gave up and looked at the two talking together.
But just as he looked at them, his gaze fell on Lith's amethyst eyes. That was the thing that caught his attention the most when the two talked.