Jin had taken every crystal, every promise, and used them to sweeten the deal for his groups.
Though honestly, the rewards had barely been necessary. The core members, the veterans who'd served with Jean, would have come for free.
But the money helped attract the younger participants. The ten students from various Strahlfang-aligned houses that the opportunistic nobles had managed to gather weren't completely loyal to the cause initially. They needed financial incentive beyond vague notions of house honor.
And the money ensured that afterward, when everything was finished, they could disappear before consequences caught up. Live comfortably in some grateful noble's territory while House Strahlfang officially denounced them as rogue actors to maintain political appearances.
Plausible deniability. His father would understand that game at least.
His father would probably be furious anyway.
Good…
