Angel was certain that he would never stand with the Guman King's faction, but neither did he think he would join Dydia's faction.
The reason was simple: there was nothing in this that could move Angel through profit.
The turmoil in the Guman Kingdom had been jointly created by three factions. At the heart of this "chaos" lay the Guman King's Abyssal Secret Ritual.
To put it plainly, the Guman King was trying to use secret ritual knowledge obtained from the Abyss to break through his bottleneck.
And that bottleneck was the chasm of Legend.
What the Guman King was doing was actually quite similar to what Lord Monchi had done back then. Lord Monchi had gone into the Abyss to capture demon god descendants in order to glimpse a path through the chasm of Legend.
It was simply that the Guman King's methods were crueler, and far less reliable.
At the very least, Lord Rhein had been willing to lead Savage Cave in cooperating with Lord Monchi's various preparations in the Abyss. But Lord Rhein would absolutely never cooperate with the Guman King.
That was because Lord Monchi's idea might have been naive, but it had a chance of succeeding. The Guman King's methods, however—whether judged through prophecy or deduction—had an almost zero chance of success.
Since it was unlikely to succeed and would cause the deaths of vast numbers of living beings, Lord Rhein naturally had no desire to become deeply involved.
That said, while the success rate of the Guman King's secret ritual approached zero, it was not zero in the end. That was precisely why those great figures who desperately craved advancement to Legend still wanted to see whether the Guman King's ritual contained an opportunity for a breakthrough.
That was also the fundamental reason the