Admiral Finn Berenkest glanced at Krell and let out a scornful laugh.
Great, that greasy old bastard had looked down on me again, and I hadn't even dared to talk back. If it were that girl Yani, she'd have torn the minister to shreds by now, wouldn't she? Even though he was her uncle...
If it were my dear friend, Yu Lian, he might have already started throwing punches.
I really was just an ordinary man! Krell Belmont was overcome with self-loathing for a moment, but fortunately, Admiral Finn didn't seem inclined to press his advantage.
He got down to business and began analyzing the battle. "Judging by how it unfolded, the Imperial Army wanted to release a Void Lord inside the Fortress of Set, but the people of Earth discovered their plan in advance and turned it against them?"
"In fact, if the Void Lord hadn't intervened, the people of Earth would have suffered heavy casualties even if they'd managed to repel the Imperial Army using the fortress for cover. In a way, they were too clever for their own good," Krell said.
"That's a plausible explanation for the battle in the Great Open Sea, but I doubt this one was that simple. Krell, you're a psionic yourself, so you need to understand a basic principle. The more an operation involves large-scale occultism and psionic concepts, the less you can judge it by ordinary standards, especially when the Void is involved. Often, it takes years or even centuries before the full impact of events like this becomes clear."
"Centuries..." Krell sounded doubtful.
We all knew that schemes involving intricate plots within plots were mostly the stuff of fiction. The more precise a scheme was, like some high-tech instrument, the more likely some unforeseen event would disrupt one of its