Lan Wen Mills was utterly desperate.
As a Child of the Moon of Iris, a merchant who had made his fortune selling potions through the influence of the Health Party, he had now reached a dead end.
A month ago, everything had clearly still been developing in a favorable direction—the Children of the Moon from every country had joined forces, planning to rebuild the Herasul Empire.
The Hawkeye Organization had lost two Assassin Masters and was gradually lowering its banner under the unending blows.
Most importantly, the prime minister from the Giant Tree Party was unwilling to pin the blame for the assassination of the Avalon royal family and the Eternal Pope entirely on the Hawkeye Organization—which was perfectly reasonable from his standpoint.
That meant Iris would cut ties with them, officially defining the Hawkeye Organization, whose core purpose was combating the Children of the Moon, as an illegal and extremist organization. This was tantamount to acknowledging the legitimacy of the Children of the Moon's regime—the Health Party would inevitably take advantage of the situation to launch a large-scale purge, thereby eradicating the organization and using the opportunity to eliminate its political enemies.
So he had no choice. And this had directly caused the Giant Tree Party's public support to fall below thirty percent... In other words, if they did nothing, they could guarantee that the Health Party would become the ruling party in the next term! At that time, Lan Wen felt that everything had finally fallen into place.
Power within the country was controlled by their own people, while every neighboring country was ruled by members of their own kind.
How could they possibly lose?
How could they possibly lose?!
Just imagining the day their nation was founded filled Lan Wen with exhilaration—the Children of the Moon had