Present Clash, Future Outcome

Mara's desk was covered in densely packed files.

These files contained brief dossiers on certain figures in Quan Prefecture. All the previous suspects had died, yet his arrangements were still being sabotaged.

This meant he had killed the wrong people.

But that did not matter. Better to kill a thousand by mistake than let one slip through. Yet since he had killed the wrong people, it meant this matter was not over and needed to be dealt with further.

Under his authority, the entire Federation served him. Obtaining such intelligence naturally posed little difficulty.

Of course, all his actions were carried out under cover. The previous decree for the large-scale development of Quan Prefecture had been intended to conceal his movements.

As for whether it was worth making such a tremendous fuss over dealing with some insignificant person?

In Mara's eyes, this was no insignificant person. Even he could not find the other party, yet they could precisely sabotage his arrangements.

Moreover, they remained unmoved in the face of profit. Such a person was far harder to deal with than those Council members in the Federation who, so long as they were fed enough benefits, would watch him damage the Federation however he pleased.

At least nine out of ten Council members could see that there was something wrong with his decree, but the profits were too great and too plentiful, forcing them to shut their mouths and close their eyes, pretending not to see.

If something really went wrong midway through, they could still step forward in righteous indignation, declaring that they had been deceived, then use Mara as a scapegoat to quell the public's fury.

And afterward, they would certainly keep doing whatever they had been doing.

Could they really sacrifice their own interests for the sake of