In Country M, the Paranormal Alliance!
Today, the Paranormal Alliance was facing troubles both internal and external. The internal trouble was naturally the departure of the Fire Emperor; the Thunder Emperor was now practically a loner and could turn his guns on them at any moment, while the King Wind was dead, creating a generational gap and a severe shortage of talent. As for the external trouble, it did not refer to the Skull and Bones, but rather to Cain. When Cain came to settle accounts and rake up the past, the Paranormal Alliance would not be able to escape, and neither would the Skull and Bones. How many years had Country M even existed? The Paranormal Alliance had only moved from Europe to America in modern times because the competition in Europe was simply too fierce.
In this great battle, every faction had its own agenda. If the Paranormal Alliance and the Skull and Bones had suffered heavy losses in personnel early on, it was also because they had not been entirely honest, choosing instead to preserve their strength. Although they had not joined the Allied Army, they hoped the Allied Army would win to eliminate their shared external threat, yet they did not want the Allied Army to achieve a sweeping victory. Ideally, it would be a pyrrhic victory—a victory as miserable as it could possibly be. That way, in the subsequent Holy War, these forces could pin all their hopes on the two survivors and thus dominate the situation in the West. Even if they lost, they wou…
Chapter 560