"I'm sorry, master, I was too reckless and failed to appreciate your painstaking efforts," Misha said hurriedly, bowing her head and speaking softly.
"Besides..." Cassius paused, his words filled with absolute confidence, "Without an army, without funds, they are merely puppets on the surface of the empire, what qualifications do they have to compete with us?"
Watching the back of Adrian, the Sun God's Favored, as he departed, the Emperor of the Crimson Dragon's long and narrow vertical pupils showed contempt and disdain.
Cassius was certainly not a selfless Holy Father.
He did not make territorial demands now just because the Dragon Worship Church had not been eliminated, and the Second Fadlan Front Line established by Adrian, Franz, and others still had a certain "legitimacy" that could attract rebels from all over Seleucis.
