As he spoke, Longinus dropped another depth charge. "Actually, Dragon-senpai invited me to join the Revolutionary Army fifteen years ago. He even said that if I agreed, I would become the Revolutionary Army's second-in-command."
"Of course, it was hard to say whether the Revolutionary Army even had two people back then." Longinus rarely made jokes. "So Dragon-senpai was quite skilled at writing bad checks."
If anyone else heard this, they might have mocked Longinus for being shortsighted.
After all, judging by the Revolutionary Army's current momentum, it could almost be called a smaller World Government. Though Marine Admirals held lofty status, the World Government still weighed over their heads. In terms of freedom, they truly could not compare to the Revolutionary Army.
More importantly, a Marine Admiral could rise no higher than Fleet Admiral. As for the World Government's Commander-in-Chief of All Forces, the title merely sounded impressive, with little actual expansion of power. But the Revolutionary Army's second-in-command might have a chance of reaching the throne of the King of the World.
But to Kuina, what did the Revolutionary Army's second-in-command amount to? Even the Five Emperors were merely her teacher's subordinates. Just the tip of the iceberg of his schemes was enough to leave the entire world speechless.
As Kuina reflected in secret with such admiration, she heard Longinus continue, "I did not refuse at the time because I thought poorly of him, nor because I believed I could not submit to another. It was because I discovered that behind the shadow of the World Government, there was a great hand manipulating the world!"
"A great hand manipulating the world?"
"According to my guess, that may have been why the World Government had stood at the pinnacle of the world for eight hundred years without falling." Longinus spoke