Not much time had passed since The Trinity's mercenaries and armed forces had been completely wiped out by the City of Immortals' superior firepower. Many people in the trade still remembered that unfortunate client who had provoked someone they could not afford to offend, so they refused The Trinity's invitations one after another. This time, The Trinity had used a different name when recruiting mercenaries. As a result, City of Immortals agents had spent a long time locating the hired mercenary regiment and the recruitment project, then another long stretch successfully infiltrating it—given The Trinity's secretive methods, only a Hand would lead the mercenary regiment's operations. The City of Immortals did not expect to trace the remnants of The Trinity through these mercenaries. They merely intended to provide operational intelligence for the Fimbulwinter First Secret Regiment.
The Trinity was not a powerful organization. The City of Immortals had easily eradicated its overt forces. However, given that The Trinity might be connected to the Feathered Serpent God, Salomon quietly raised the level of seriousness with which he regarded the organization. It might be linked to certain mysterious forces.
Like Hydra, The Trinity hid itself deeply. It was entwined with financial magnates, yet unlike Freemasonry, it did not ostentatiously establish lodges everywhere or hand out master titles. Nor had it formed societies or founded schools of thought at Columbia University, and it was not, like the hidden backers of White House lobbying groups, composed entirely of one ethnicity. Instead, it chose to conceal itself among politicians, financial magnates, and scholars.
The only certainty was that only the United States of that era possessed the soil in which The Trinity could thrive.
It was highly likely that, like the Conservative Hydra factions such as the Malik family, The Trinity consisted of families that