The Burning Legion was powerful. They had many robots stronger than Beast King; Beast King was nothing before them. Their fleet was powerful enough to destroy the entire galaxy. Even Glaive Empire warships would be split in two with a single slash before them. Beast King was utterly useless against them. They looked down on Beast King's strength because they possessed even greater power.
They really were powerful. All Five Lions had already fallen into their hands, and she had no way to take them back. There was no way. She couldn't do it. She could only rely on them.
These were the thoughts that had taken root in Princess Althea's mind during the days after she entered Homeland Fortress. But the emergence of a single thought was like a spark before a wildfire; it would slowly grow fiercer until it ultimately consumed Princess Althea. Yet even just this one thought, this small trace of awareness, was enough to greatly change Althea's attitude toward the Burning Legion.
Cruze appeared before Althea every day, beguiling her with words and taking her to witness the Burning Legion's strength firsthand. Step by step, he deepened her impression that the Burning Legion was so powerful that it could never be resisted, instilling in her the idea that no matter what she wanted to do, only the Burning Legion could help her and only they were this world's true saviors.
And the more contact she had with the Burning Legion, after Cruze had planted that seed, the more she saw everything within the Burning Legion with her own eyes, and the more she could understand just how powerful the Burning Legion truly was.
Cruze merely smiled silently at Princess Althea's changes. Though he was an Old Driver—yes, an Old Driver—he valued willing consent rather than