The biggest mistake behind their betrayal this time was still the Security Department's incompetence.
Little Illusion had been obsessed with eating, drinking, and having fun. Though her instincts from following Wenren Sheng in the past told her that the King should directly control the military, she had forgotten that true military authority came from frequent contact with the Soldiers, regular training, and sharing their food and lodgings.
Only a very small number of famous generals could overcome those conditions through wise command and enormous rewards.
For ordinary people, the measures above were how they gained military authority.
Soldiers were often rough men. Would they trust the comrades and officers beside them, the brothers they had fought and risked their lives with, or the King who was far away and commanded them remotely?
More often than not, it was the former.
Little Illusion could certainly eat, drink, and play alongside them, but that also made the Soldiers feel they had no future.
As a result, more than half of the Security Department defected to the Rebels.
Only a small number of honest people continued to follow her.
For people to do that in the face of life and death was truly rare and precious.
After all, everyone instinctively feared death.
Without the Security Department's defection, those two groups could never have grown so powerful.
After all, the Security Department held the access-control keys for every area, as well as the weapons, armor, and even the armories everywhere.
Wenren Sheng saw everything clearly, but to him, this was merely a real game.
It was the perfect chance to let Little Illusion play something more difficult.
That would keep her from always thinking ordinary games were boring.
As for toying with human lives...
That did not exist.
These people had already died in