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In Green's plan, the Anomalies Bureau would provide official backing and a show of force. The Factories' profits would win over Viscount Paul, Mayor Woodskin, and Doctor Wilkins, who represented the nobles, officials, and mages. Then the Shadow Trade Association would recruit members among Landon City's lower classes. Together, they would form a vast network that controlled the city from top to bottom and turned it into a rear base that supplied resources without end.

In fact, expanding the Shadow Trade Association in Landon City would be easier than in Friedenburg City.

Landon City had a stronger economy and was smaller, with fewer unemployed workers and vagrants. But other religions had little influence here. Powerful nobles had also swallowed up so much land that large numbers of landless farmers had become tenant farmers, suffering ruthless exploitation and living in hardship.

The Shadow Trade Association had to adapt its approach to local conditions. In a large city like Friedenburg City, it relied on the urban poor. In a smaller city like Landon City, it needed to focus on the countryside.

That was the broad strategy Green had set for the Shadow Trade Association. As for how Freya and the others carried it out, he would not interfere too much.

The Shadow Trade Association now had experience from Friedenburg City and a well-developed process for recruiting members. The people it had brought along were reliable and eager to work. As soon as they settled in, they got started. Following their assigned roles, some posed as workers and entered the Factories; others posed as wandering witch doctors and treated people in the countryside; still others pretended to be Eerie and frightened people, making it easier to spread their faith while their victims were afraid.

Through the Soul Link, Green watched the entire Shadow