After discovering the Red Moon having a hand in this grand plan, Eli had thought of the worst: Luwenda Ambrosia, one of the continent's most powerful figures, was cooperating with devil worshippers.
It was a grave accusation, one that could get him executed.
This revelation threatened to tilt the balance of power so catastrophically that a second, more devastating Purification War felt inevitable.
Which was why Eli believed Luwenda wasn't tied up with the Red Moon, especially when her entire faction of other nobles was dependent on her.
She could be cunning, ruthless, even apathetic, but she would not deign to bargain with zealots like the Red Moon. If anything, he suspected she would exploit their scheme to serve her own.
Her intelligence network, a web of eyes and ears that rivaled the Crown's own, surely had caught wind of the academy strike and layered their own assassination plot to run alongside it.
