At Marine Headquarters, Garen was busy preparing for that mysterious final enemy.
To learn more, he went straight to the already-captured Five Elders and bluntly asked:
"Who exactly is this so-called Lord Imu?"
"This..."
The Five Elders looked conflicted and hesitated for a long while without answering.
"What?"
Garen's tone grew more forceful as he pressed them directly:
"At a time like this, do you still have any illusions left?"
"Whether you cooperate or not, the World Government is already completely finished."
"It's not that we don't want to tell you."
Having fully accepted reality, Five Elder Gorbachev had no desire to resist at all. He merely said helplessly:
"The truth is, even the five of us don't know Lord Imu's true identity."
"What?"
Garen was slightly surprised.
"That's right."
Five Elder Churchill stepped forward, a pensive look appearing on his face.
"That lord's very existence is a mystery."
"All I know is that ever since I could remember, Lord Imu had already been controlling everything in the Holy Land from behind the scenes."
"All of us were selected from our clans by Lord Imu when we were young and carefully nurtured. Once we became capable enough, that lord pushed us to the forefront to become the World Government's public rulers."
"Over all these years, we went from young men to old fossils, yet Lord Imu's appearance never changed."
"And you should know this."
Five Elder Churchill let out a deep sigh, a trace of fear appearing in his eyes.
"The position of Five Elder had existed since the birth of the World Government."
"And the five of us are merely one generation among many generations of Five Elders."
"If the previous Five Elders were also trained and controlled by that lord as we were, then Lord Imu had lived