Why exactly is he trying to cover up the news from the front lines? Even to the point of killing accomplished veterans and weakening the orthodox faction itself.
And what exactly is the whole mess with Dancang Sect and the Blood cult all about? They skipped over the explanation.
@guunahgar Too maintain centralized power around the relatively weak Murim Alliance Leader. If all these powerful, influential, and heroic individuals returned to their families they would begin to weird true influence, removing much of the alliances power by acting as a counter to their absolute hegemony over the Orthodox murim. Worse yet, what if these people formed their own organization based on the fact they're all comrades of the same battlefront, leading to a whole other faction the alliance would have to deal with only worse because they'd have a direct competitor. Jegal Jigang, not wanting to deal with this or ordered by the alliance leader, has taken the easiest option of dealing with this issue, by training martial artists that no one important would miss to ambush and kill them when they serve their term. This stops them from becoming anything more than a casualty of the frontlines, but has severely hurt the entire Orthodox because the people with the most experience and developing power don't get to educate and cultivate younger talents leading to stagnation and the adoption of a murim alliance leader who is utterly and completely outclassed by the Blood Demon.
@guunahgar Thanks for reading it, and thank you for the compliment. It's mostly inferred from his actions and seeming regret. Like the fact he coerces promising talents from small martial factions into joining his elite assassins squad under false promise. There's a lot of context clues to the political situation that don't get highlighted, so I'm using those as refrence to make assumptions on the state of affairs within the alliance. For instance, we haven't actually gotten real time with strategist Jegal beyond this chapter so I could be very, very wrong and he could be a spy of the blood cult working to undermine the alliance in a deeply damaging way. Or he could have no choice, as he's still serving the alliance leader who himself seems a bit haughty and arrogant. All pretty much my conclusions, so they could be way off.
