As the old saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them.
Damon understood that at the moment he could not take Seraph Null in terms of faith not with the amount of time and followers available to him.
So instead, he would take something else.
The foundation of his plan was simple.
He would take governance.
It took a great deal to rule a city, but you could never control every part of it. There were things you had to abandon not because you wanted to, but because you had no choice.
Like most rulers, Seraph Null abandoned the shadows.
The criminal underworld.
Where there was poverty and hardship, despair, fear, and helplessness bred two things. One was crime.
The other was religion.
What better breeding ground than the Grinding Gate?
And that was exactly what Damon was cultivating.
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A man walked through the night beneath a low hood, his steps light and deliberate. When he slipped into an alley corner, he stopped.
