The Governor-General's Guard deployed six hundred men and offered a hefty bounty, launching a massive manhunt in the direction Kenny had reported. Moriarty was surrounded once again, and with his arm injured, he could not make a disguise mask quickly.
Left with no choice, he slipped into a private residence to hide. Inside, however, a group of Marleyan revolutionaries was leading university students in a clandestine meeting.
When Moriarty saw more than a hundred young people who looked like students inside the building, his heart sank into despair. He did not fear sacrifice, but if he dragged Marley's future hopes down with him, even ten thousand deaths could not atone for his guilt.
This university was the secret base of Marley's last resistance force. Magath's last surviving subordinate had founded it and named it Magath University in his memory.
Tailor had drawn on his last remaining wealth, old government bonds, and the fortunes accumulated by the former nobility, pouring vast resources into educating these Marleyan youths. He taught them never to forget that they were Marleyans, to remember the wrongs done to their nation and their families.
The desperate resistance Marleyans had mounted during Floch's two years of rule had not been driven solely by his brutality. With Chen Si's tacit approval, Floch had also made the Eldian language and script Marley's official language and forced every school-age child on the Marley Continent to learn Eldian from childhood.
Naturally, the Marleyans fiercely opposed measures intended to erase their nation and people. Yet those measures had proved extraordinarily effective after Floch slaughtered wave after wave of people, killing several million and almost every Marleyan with the backbone to resist.
The Marleyans who remained were either concerned for their compatriots or spineless enough to submit. Although Floch's crimes were grave, he had