In the end, Benjamin still left the blueprints with Maurice, letting the professionals study them at their leisure.
—Cracking St. Peter's Cathedral and finding its weak points were not things they could make use of right now. So far, they had only destroyed some of The Church's sources of military supplies and made The Church suffer a few setbacks. But this "Black Nightmare Army" still found it difficult to contend head-on with the Kingdom Army.
Especially in terms of equipment and training, they lagged far behind the regular army.
Faced with this situation, Benjamin had no intention of taking the refined route. When it came to discipline and order, this disorganized army, slowly formed through war and plunder, would never be able to train itself into shape. The only thing they could rely on was numbers.
Thus, he quickly summoned the person in charge of the Academy's Dark Division.
"How many rebel forces of considerable scale are there in the kingdom now?"
The person in charge answered, "Counting all those odds and ends, there are roughly eight groups with more than a thousand men. Three in the north and five in the south. Each occupies its own mountain stronghold, and some have even captured a few remote towns. But for now, they're all still rather scattered, fighting on their own. They can hardly be said to have much influence."
Hearing this, Benjamin nodded in satisfaction.
"Find a way to contact the leaders of these eight factions," he ordered. "Within a month, I need to gather them all together and have every one of them join our ranks."
The person in charge hesitated before saying, "This... they may not be willing to join obediently."
"They will be." Benjamin snorted. "The reason The Church had no time to deal with them before