After learning of Anvis's existence, Itafus, the Pale Frost Lord, attempted to seek cooperation with Anvis, but the latter rejected its proposal.
Diviners never easily stepped onto the stage of fate, because that would turn them from spectators in the darkness into actors beneath the spotlight, often cast in roles whose endings were unknown.
Itafus had no solution to this and could only continue working with Finis. Fortunately, the latter proved quite capable. While expanding rapidly, he brought Itafus large numbers of sacrifices captured in the war.
At the same time, as they won battle after battle, the reputation of Finis's legion gradually began to spread.
According to legend, they arrived upon endless frost and snow, bringing the cold harsh winter to the entire world. Wherever they passed, all things would be blanketed in flawless pale frost.
This was Finis's Winter Legion, a powerful legion of Professionals rapidly cultivated from Seeds of Power provided by Itafus, utterly obedient to his commands.
Finis himself gained the epithet of the Pale Lord, a title that sounded more like an Olyvendi Family member than one from the Enoch Family.
However, as his territory expanded, Finis's situation gradually became more difficult.
The major powers finally began to take this former small fry seriously, mobilizing their elite forces to encircle and suppress him.
Indeed, the Four Great Families Alliance to which Finis belonged had Anvis's shadow behind it. But once the territory he occupied exceeded a certain threshold, that deterrent began to diminish without limit.
Everyone had Ninth Rank figures standing behind them. Even if the Man in the Mirror was one of only two Ninth Rank Diviners on the continent, he could not personally intervene over some minor matter. Otherwise, it would only escalate into a war between Ninth Ranks.
And without Ninth Rank