By now, these two master turncoats had been calmly keeping up their act for almost three months.
Each had their own objectives and ideas.
Yet at this moment, their goals were remarkably aligned: to stab the rotten powers controlling them in the back.
To become their own masters.
Leo Stowe loathed the Redstone Empire's current corruption and incompetence.
He also knew that the Redstone Empire's leadership had been thoroughly corrupted and controlled by the Wall Watchers.
That was why he had been seeking outside help, hoping to bring about change, save his homeland, and restore the Empire's former glory.
Ilis, meanwhile, wanted help protecting the Mountain River Star Sector while also providing support to Su Yi.
She was not under the Wall Watchers' control.
Just as she had said back then, she was an untainted part of the original Goddess of Black Cinders.
She possessed the Goddess of Black Cinders' divine authority, but had not been infected by Nightmare.
But the Wall Watchers did not know that.
Back then, the Goddess of Black Cinders had split into ten thousand fragments precisely to avoid arousing their suspicions.
Of those, 9,998 were tainted. Only two were not.
After splitting them off, the Goddess of Black Cinders had completely severed the connections between them.
If the Goddess of Black Cinders was a diseased, corrupted tree...
Then Ilis was a new tree grown from one of its clean, healthy branches.
Ilis had used the Deceiver of Yore's divine authority to fool the Wall Watchers into believing she was another tainted fragment.
That was also why Ilis had chosen to follow the Deceiver of Yore.
Even when she lacked her former memories and divine authority, she had instinctively searched for a way out.
Faced with Leo Stowe's theatrical questioning, Ilis answered casually.
"It has nothing