Inside the small chapel, Su Xiao sat on a wooden chair with a tablet computer in his hands. The screen showed a real-time surveillance feed, whose main subject was the hurried-looking Elder Bloomer.
Su Xiao's plan was simple. From the beginning, he had guessed that the Senate would not obediently surrender its military authority. That was only natural. Even if Ken Lahan had the right to demand that military authority and let the king he supported seize power, rules were made by people. Whether they were followed still depended on the abilities of those involved.
For the Senate to become one of the contenders for royal power, its members naturally could not be simple characters. Expecting them to obediently hand over their military authority was unrealistic.
If one wanted to know an enemy's weakness, the best method was to scare them first and see where they covered up. Then, attacking that spot would basically never go wrong. Of course, if the enemy was particularly underhanded, this could fail.
Bubu Wang had been tailing Bloomer all along. Su Xiao currently had no authority or money. To fight the Empire's upper echelons, he needed bargaining chips at the very least, and military authority was the best one.
Bloomer suddenly stopped on the surveillance feed. He seemed to have thought of something. After pondering for a moment, he actually changed direction and returned to the Senate. Clearly, Bloomer had realized that returning to his own residence now might expose his weakness to the enemy.
Bubu Wang stopped following Bloomer and asked Su Xiao what to do next. Su Xiao signaled for it to continue tailing Bloomer. Baja had already reached the man's residence.
An hour later, Baja leaped onto the small chapel's roof and lightly tapped the glass above with the tip of