Just as Iver had expected.
Even though they had planned each legion's area of responsibility from the start and tried their best to keep them from meeting and clashing... conflicts still arose.
It began when the mages were attacked by demons while occupying the Spirit Tower.
The mages made a rather foolish decision—when they were arranging the Ritual Array to convert the Spirit Tower into a Mage Tower, they refused the Moon Children's protection. Or rather, they only allowed Moon Children from the Narcissus Principality to enter the Spirit Tower.
Of course, that was understandable. So it could only be called relatively foolish.
After all, the construction techniques for Mage Towers were the Narcissus Principality's closely guarded secret, its most crucial secret. They were equivalent to Avalon's griffin eggs—and considering that this was a replicable, mass-producible technique rather than a resource like griffin eggs that could be strictly controlled, it could even be said to be more precious than a single griffin egg. It was equivalent to an entire griffin-breeding system.
Naturally, no one would think these Moon Children had good intentions—especially the Moon Children from Iris. Their faith was still in the Blood Angel, making them even less trustworthy than the Moon Children from Antimony!
And as it happened...
—the Moon Children truly did harbor ill intentions.
The Mage Tower was a strategic facility. It could control the weather within a radius of dozens or even hundreds of kilometers, bombard areas dozens of kilometers away with spells almost without pause, and perform group teleportation on a company-sized scale.
Even if it were not used for war, its ability to control celestial phenomena alone could benefit people's livelihoods.
This technology was completely monopolized by the Narcissus Principality. Even after Antimony occupied the principality, it had failed to obtain the method