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I had one last task remaining, if it could even be called that. No—rather than being the last task, it was more about finalizing all the necessary preparations. In some sense, this marked the beginning.
It was nighttime at the Temple dormitory, and I was listening to Sarkegar’s report.
“I made contact with Owen de Getmora yesterday.”
“What do you think?” I asked. “Was he surprised?”
“He was initially surprised, but being a merchant at heart, he quickly started calculating what he could get from the situation,” Sarkegar replied.
Suddenly having a demon faction propose an alliance while he was pushing for a human republican revolution had to have been startling. However, since he was someone who always looked to turn a profit, he had regained his composure and begun assessing the situation.
“He said he would need to discuss it with the leaders, but as you predicted, it seems inevitable that we will receive a positive response,” Sarkegar continued.
Now that we’d identified them, it was as if we had them by the leash. If they refused to ally with us, we could simply hand over information about the Revolutionary Forces to the empire.
“Yes. From the empire’s perspective, we aren’t the immediate threat. The Revolutionary Forces are,” I noted.
The existence of the demon faction could serve as a unifying force for humanity. However, the Revolutionary Forces caused internal division. In its current state, the demon remnant couldn’t topple the empire, but the Revolutionary Forces could....
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