Chapter 293: The Devil Lord’s Confusion
In the giant dark throne chamber, the devil lord sat on his throne with his usual laid-back demeanor. However, only he knew how annoyed he truly felt about how things had turned out. The events in the Doria Empire were spiraling out of his control, and he hadn’t expected the entire devil network to be exposed instead. Initially, he wanted all the devils and their assets in the empire to continue operating as they had before. After the war, there would be a crisis of faith among the nobles, the populace, and even the imperial family itself. The Doria Empire would be consumed by its own suspicions and eventually crumble from within.
However, things started to go south when their information network was suddenly compromised, and the emperor broke the Envy Devil’s curse. Everything began to collapse like a row of dominoes, spiraling out of control. Now, the devils’ operations in the Doria Empire have essentially come to a halt, with no devils or pawns remaining in strategic positions.
They had all been ransacked by the armies of the imperial family and the nobles who were not yet under his influence. In the end, he lost his grasp on the Doria Empire not long after the war.
To compensate, he decided to devise another plan in a different empire—one that also shares a border with the devils. Both the Doria Empire and the Vindas Empire had been heavily influenced by the devils, thanks to the numerous infiltrators and traitors the devils had brought to their side.
Although this plan in the Vindas empire was quite rushed, he was confident it would go undetected by others because some traitors held strategic positions to assist him. Even if someone discovered his plan this time, there would be nothing they could do, as the traitors would handle any threats.
Still, all these events stemmed from the outcome in the Doria Empire, which he had not anticipated.
"Where did it go wrong? What were the gaps that allowed those people to uncover our network in the empire?" the devil lord thought.
He recounted all the events during the war and its aftermath. The only things that stood out were the mysterious swordsman and the enigmatic alchemist who could create six-striped pills, known as Aldrian. These two individuals were the only ones who came to mind after all his plans had crumbled.