His gaze was completely drawn to the situation map as his mind raced, swiftly digesting the information within.
There had originally been five factions at the foot of Mount of Gods, but the Duke of the Northern Lands, the strongest among them, had chosen to stand by and watch. His son, Gavin North, had secretly allied with Stanley Longfellow, the royal family's hidden agent, and counted as one faction, leaving only four in total.
Among these four factions, the royal side and the holy rite side had already reached a cooperation agreement with the academy side, while the Elf side had chosen to act alone.
However, due to Aurora's connection, the academy side and the Elf side actually had a basis for cooperation as well. It was simply a more covert line of cooperation, and much harder to detect.
The Elves had done an excellent job with their information barrier. So long as the academy side did not take the initiative to reveal it, neither the royal side nor the holy rite side could possibly imagine that Aurora had such a connection to the Elves.
And the entire operation would begin tomorrow morning. They simply had no time to conduct any further investigations.
Therefore, if used properly, the academy side could easily emerge as the greatest winner among these four factions.
—If it had been someone else, they might really have begun plotting!
Only because the professors of Saint Marian Academy were all so upright did they have no such thoughts at all.
But that did not mean they would not investigate the movements and objectives of the other three factions.
The most important thing was their objective.
The royal family, the holy rite, and the Elves actually shared highly consistent goals.
They all wished to obtain the divine power