After a pause, Soren continued, "But the Truth Society still miscalculated. We had noticed the existence of this organization long ago, though we knew very little about it at first. Later, as time passed, our intelligence agents kept making contact with them and gradually came to understand their general nature. Combined with the intelligence you provided while undercover, as well as the clearing out and excavation of the many branches in the Southern Free Federation, we were finally able to glimpse the Truth Society as a whole and learn where they were strong and where they were weak.
Their strength lay in always hiding in the shadows, and their weakness also lay in always hiding in the shadows. Every member of their organization was elite, skilled in infiltration, subversion, poisoning, assassination, and more. They could start with a very small incident and go on to influence the overall situation. Their sphere of influence was extremely broad, spread throughout the continent and even extending to the Endless Ocean beyond it and numerous island nations. But in the end, they were merely an organization operating in secret, not a country. They certainly had many people, but by choosing to hide in the shadows, they could never mobilize the vast manpower and resources that nations in the open could.
The Alliance used you, me, and the entire army as bait precisely to make the Truth Society, this master assassin, strike—to lure this master assassin of the Truth Society into the 'arena.' As long as they appeared, as long as their first blow did not kill us, we had won. Because the moment an assassin was exposed, he was no longer an assassin. He had already failed completely."
"Couldn't the Truth Society, this master assassin, kill all of you quickly and then hide again