@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.