Liam studied the twelve soldiers - soon to be more - and felt the Synchronization Index tick upward again.
This wasn't human behavior. Humans didn't command armies of zealots. Didn't accept absolute obedience without discomfort.
But it also wasn't purely demon. Demons commanded through fear and dominance.
This was something else. Something built on faith and worship and the synthesis of human understanding with demonic reality.
Something that felt right in ways he couldn't fully articulate.
[Synchronization Index: 34% → 35%]
He was building an infrastructure of godhood, and the more he built the harder it was to dismantle.
Is that what he wants?
Yes, he realized. It was exactly what he wanted.
Because Liam had been a failed actor with no audience. Lord Azra was becoming something with purpose, believers, infrastructure that turned performance into reality.
And the synthesis of both—this new thing he was becoming—needed that structure to exist.
