Perhaps because Angel had rarely shown concern for Savage Cave's future strategic affairs, Iron Armor Granny was much more talkative than usual and chatted with Angel about quite a few of these secrets.
These secrets opened Angel's eyes. Many personnel arrangements that seemed perfectly normal actually concealed layer upon layer of planning.
Take "Winter Sovereignty" Horus, for example. He had been sent to Sky Mechanical City ostensibly because Angel had become a member of the Research Institute, giving the apprentices of Savage Cave a chance to enter Ashilia Comprehensive Academy and study alchemy.
Alchemy was an enormous and highly valuable system. Once it could be firmly established in Savage Cave, the continuous emergence of alchemists would no longer be an unattainable dream. Thus, such an important strategy concerning the organization's development naturally required a heavyweight wizard to maintain and guard it. That was why Horus had gone to Sky Mechanical City.
However, that was only the public explanation. Horus's assignment to Sky Mechanical City also came with a more important mission: representing Savage Cave in conducting in-depth exchanges with Sky Mechanical City on every level.
These in-depth exchanges encompassed all aspects, including the sharing of information and formulation of strategies regarding the Guman Kingdom.
Of course, even before Horus, Savage Cave had other wizards representing it in these exchanges, but their rank was relatively low. As time passed, both sides needed communication at a higher level. However, the situation in the Southern Region was extremely complicated. Sending a Second-Level True-Knowledge Wizard to reside in Sky Mechanical City without warning would definitely attract a great deal of attention.
As it happened, Angel became a member of the Research Institute at that very moment, stirring up the entire Wizarding World's great pool of public opinion.
This gave Horus a legitimate reason to