"If we can't avoid it, we'll strike first!"
Ji Luo's gaze instantly sharpened as he began to grasp what she meant. "Sis, you mean..."
"Drive the Tiger to Swallow the Wolf!"
Ji Li rose from the sofa and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing out at the glittering city nightscape.
"Of the three factions, Winterhold is the strongest, the Cultists' branch in the Black Forest comes second, and your player faction is the weakest!"
"Since the Cultists have already jumped to the conclusion that Winterhold was behind what happened in Fog Town..."
"You should play along and muddy the waters completely!"
"Stoke the conflict between those two sides until it boils over!"
"Make them wage an all-out war that won't end until one side is dead! Then use Winterhold's strength to wipe out the threat from the Black Forest Cultists!"
"That way, Winterhold will have somewhere to vent its anger, and you can pin all the Winterhold Knights you killed on those Cultists."
At the words "Drive the Tiger to Swallow the Wolf"!
Ji Luo felt a chill shoot up his spine to the crown of his head!
"Sis..."
"That's absolutely brilliant!!"
After that rush of excitement, Ji Luo forced himself to calm down.
His brows knitted as he began considering how to put this earth-shattering plan into practice.
"Saying 'Drive the Tiger to Swallow the Wolf' sounds easy enough."
"But we're talking about a showdown between two major factions! Winterhold and the Cultists aren't brainless training dummies programmed into a game."
"How do we light that fuse without anyone realizing it was us?"
"We can't exactly run up to Winterhold's gates and yell, 'The Cultists called you useless trash,' can we?"
"Sis, do you have any concrete plans for pulling this off?"
Faced with her younger brother's eager, inquisitive