Of course, you knew that the most important thing was your loyalty to the Consortium Alliance.
Your clear choice of sides had earned you this opportunity.
Skvis did not like you. After a brief period of interaction, you realized that he was a man of limited ability but immense inner arrogance.
He had attained his current position purely because he was more shameless than you, hopping from side to side like a chameleon, seizing the opportunities of the era, and happening to claim a seat in Graystone Palace.
You also knew that Skvis was merely a clown, a traitor.
As long as you handled things well, once this term ended, you would smoothly obtain the consortiums' support and become the true president.
But for now, you had to learn to endure.
Skvis had practically stripped you of all your power. Though you were nominally the vice president, you were often little more than a rubber stamp.
Yet at times, you also felt that he was far too radical and reckless.
Some of his mad actions were pushing the entire Federation toward war.
You had no doubt that if Tettis saw all this, he might be angered back to life.
Being excluded from the center of power also gave you more time. You brought your wife and daughter over and enjoyed a brief, peaceful life.
But Aines was not as peaceful as you had imagined.
You had never expected the Church of Death God to be insane enough to sacrifice Aines. You lived far from Graystone Palace. If you had not been a B-rank Extraordinary, if Aderick's brother had not destroyed the Church of Death God's ritual and saved Aines, your wife would have died in the Evil Spirit's attack.
That day, when you left home and walked the streets, you