For now, the War of Freedom was simply a process of preparation and seeking opportunities. Its ultimate purpose was to overthrow and eliminate AmbriO, that peerless bastard.
And all the chaos in the Outside World had indeed been manipulated by AmbriO from behind the scenes. The war between PLANT and the Federation in this world, the former Mega-Borg War, and the war between A-LAWS and Celestial Being had all been like this. The target of DRAGON, as Xiao Ran understood it, was also AmbriO.
Leaving aside Celestial Being's other mission—the coming dialogue—Orb, PLANT, Yajenar, and Celestial Being all had AmbriO as their target. That was already enough to show that AmbriO was the boss of this scenario, or one of its bosses.
By now, Xiao Ran had learned from Jill what the War of Freedom was really about. As for whether Jill's words were true or false, Xiao Ran was willing to believe that she was telling the truth for the moment. After all, the mission completion rate's sudden rise to sixty percent could not be faked.
As for the remaining forty percent, part of it should involve the mission's second condition: the truth of this world, along with what Jill had yet to reveal.
But Jill had already told him so much, and Xiao Ran was satisfied with that. Continuing to dig deeper would probably not get him more information from Jill. She was clearly changing the subject and did not intend to say anything further. He would have to slowly coax the rest out of her, then see what he could learn from Tusk, Lacus, and those DRAGON.
Yet as Xiao Ran followed Jill's words and thought it through, learning the details of the War of Freedom did not ease his frown. Instead, it deepened.
Perhaps, in Jill's