[The northern Airship had found an island overseas to serve as a temporary camp for the Reconnaissance Knights and continued north.]
[The Dimon Kingdom had won a decisive victory against the Ratfolk Attack north of the pass. With the Imperial army pinning them down, the McKennan Ratfolk had fled in a panic.]
[Prince Bloodbone of the Empire had been taken away by the Inquisition. He was the third great noble detained this month, possibly in connection with the Blackwatch Legion's loss of contact.]
[For the New World Pictures released its tenth Magic Film since its founding. For two years, For the New World had devoted itself to recreating the classics...]
After going through the day's Government Affairs, Annan stretched and leaned back in his chair, considering how to obtain Faith Power from Moxi without being found out.
Annan and Moxi were, in a way, thinking along the same lines.
He wanted Moxi to believe in him without knowing whom she worshipped.
She was trying to work out how to bluff her way through so the Holy Son would stop thinking she was special.
Moxi had a Holy Relic from her Clan Chief. It had helped her deceive the executioner, the Executor, and Priest Lothermar, but she had little confidence it would fool the Holy Son.
Annan also had a trump card that could bring Dark Elves to their knees beneath his Mage Robe. But it might inspire greed rather than submission: the Otherworld Tree.
Before her fall, Spider Queen Lolth had been an Archbishop of the Elven Chief God. Annan did not know her name, nor why she had betrayed the Elven Royal Court. Much else had happened in between that Annan knew nothing about. In the end, the Abyss had corrupted her, and she had fallen into an Evil