Inside the Izzet League headquarters in the Ravnica plane, Raymond, Niv-Mizzet, and Nahiri were holding a discussion that would determine this world's future.
As for the renowned Guildpact...
Sorry, although they were the nominal rulers of this plane, they had been excluded from the core of future power from the very beginning.
Because the Guildpact's power was simply too weak and too scattered.
Especially when facing Nicol Bolas's infiltration, they had performed much like Nazi Germany's intelligence apparatus during World War II, becoming riddled with holes in an incredibly short time.
Many people in key positions within the guilds were essentially Old Dragon's subordinates, or servants who had been brainwashed and mentally controlled by him.
If he truly launched a full-scale invasion, those people could paralyze most of the Guildpact within mere hours, plunging it into infighting and mutual slaughter.
Thus, in Raymond's eyes, this inefficient management system filled with internal strife was nothing but the worst kind of trash, especially for someone who believed in centralization, order, and absolute dictatorship.
The Azorius Senate in particular, as enforcers, lawmakers, and guardians of order, was bureaucracy taken to its absolute extreme.
They had long forgotten their original duties. Like patchworkers, they used selective enforcement to mend the rifts and conflicts between the guilds, maintaining a fragile balance and ensuring that so-called "peace" could last forever.
One could even say that this nominal supreme government had never established even a shred of true authority. Laws were little more than jokes and tools, pulled out only when they were needed.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, Ancient Planeswalker Azor's achievement of unifying the originally divided, war-torn Ravnica plane through magical contracts was an extraordinary and magnificent feat.
But to Raymond, it was a complete failure of a social experiment, fully proving just how