The First Seeds of Conviction Had Been Sown, the False Accusation Lifted and Prison Left Behind

After hearing John's words, Krauser did not reply immediately. Instead, he looked at John before him with an extremely complicated expression, then fell silent.

From what John had just revealed, Krauser had already understood the other man's position with his intelligence.

Before this, he had never imagined that John's true goal would be something like this.

Or rather, he was not the only one. At present, countless high-ranking figures in the Empire were watching John, the Empire's newly promoted Lieutenant General.

Whether they belonged to the Old Guard Party or the Reformist Faction, even His Majesty William himself had probably never anticipated it.

John, who had been raised by the royal family and regarded by countless people as an unquestionably steadfast member of the Reformist Faction, did not truly seek to assist the Reformist Faction in helping His Majesty William unify power. Nor did he seek to engage in party struggles like the Old Guard Party merely to preserve his own group's interests.

His true goal was to establish his own party and completely overthrow the Empire's current two-party system!

That goal could no longer be called ambitious. It was practically delusional!

Through his own deductions, Krauser saw through John's true intentions almost instantly.

As the heir to the Valendena Family, both his aristocratic upbringing and his position in the Old Guard Party were frantically warning him that he had to use force to eliminate John immediately.

Only then could he ensure that, before John established a party targeting the privileged class represented by the aristocracy, this fatal threat would be uprooted while it was still a seedling.

Yet the pride of a self-proclaimed genius, along with his heart beginning to pound uncontrollably at the magnificent vision John had described earlier—

Made Krauser keenly realize that he could not act