"Lady, have you heard of the 'Rebirth Legion' that appeared on the eastern front of the Old Continent? Since it involves the domain of death, our allies need guidance from a professional like you."
In the Banquet Hall, Deputy Prime Minister Erich held a wineglass as he discussed the latest developments on the battlefield with a dignified and beautiful noblewoman in a peacock-green evening gown, whose age was impossible to discern.
"That unknown force which has effectively taken control of the Clarence Duchy and the Bukhara Marquisate? I heard both the Alliance Army and the Heymar Kingdom military originally wanted to use that region as the main battlefield on the eastern front.
What? Was the retreat of both armies not enough? Has the 'Rebirth Legion' already fought its way out?"
Yeher, Lady Crow, the infiltrator holding the highest position in the duchy, clinked glasses with Erich, the Federation government's second-in-command, in a thoroughly casual tone.
Previously, the targets of the international bankers' repeated monetary flooding had not been only the low-level populace, but also the rulers of the states and member nations within the Golden Palm Federation.
By artificially creating debt crises, they drove the highly autonomous state governments into bankruptcy one after another, then harvested, infiltrated, and controlled them, completely seizing control of their economic, political, and military lifelines.
This soft-knife economic tactic had peacefully centralized the Federation government's power while also steadily enhancing the authority of the God of Wealth and Capital in practice.
These were the great achievements that the previous holders of the Eye of Wealth had been proud of. Quite a few of them had entered the divine heavenly halls filled with boundless wealth after death because of such accomplishments.
In this bloodless internal power struggle,
even Yeher, Lady Crow, and the earliest batch of