"Right now, what we need is a thorough and effective response strategy to curb the further deterioration of the situation and protect our country and citizens from further harm."
Councillor McPherson's family had held a seat in the upper house for generations, and he himself had been deeply involved in Illinois's secretive and complex human experimentation programs. Yet he had never felt the slightest regret.
In his view, all of this had been the necessary price for advancing humanity and achieving the leapfrog development of civilization.
With leaders such as Councillor Elroy taking the lead, the other councillors implicated in the incident also contributed their wisdom and strength.
Their consensus was clear and unmistakable—national power had to be mobilized to ensure their own safety.
Washington's Tragedy
While Councillor Elroy and his colleagues gathered in a secret meeting room beneath the White House, urgently planning strategies to fend off the necromancer's retaliation, Moros had also found where the masterminds were hiding.
The necromancer's intelligence network had his bureaucratic structure as its skeleton and wraiths as its flesh. It appeared incomparably vast, but when faced with truly high-level secrets, it was as flimsy as paper and broke at the slightest touch.
When it came to the core secrets behind the decisions made by the upper echelons of the planet's major powers, this intelligence network's ability to infiltrate was almost nonexistent.
Moros's research into divination spells had also not reached the level where he could precisely locate every important figure on his revenge list.
But this did not hinder his actions.
As a Demigod Rank necromancer, Moros's accomplishments in necromancy were still quite respectable.
In particular, his techniques for digging information out of souls had been honed to perfection through repeated practice.
Using the information he had extracted from the soul of that