「Elsewhere.」
In a basement somewhere in Constantinople, the movements of all parties were being watched by the giant Celestial Eye in the sky, with not a single detail missed.
"Everything is proceeding according to plan."
A smile touched the corners of the Eye of the Sun's lips.
'This was their objective: to scatter all the gathered forces and pick them off one by one.'
'Join forces? Cooperate?'
'What a joke. Everyone knew full well that only relationships of interest existed between Secret Organizations. The same was even true within the organizations themselves.'
'They were all a bunch of wily old foxes. Getting them to truly unite was never going to be that easy.'
'It didn't even require conspiracies—just a few overt schemes were enough to divide them.'
'Next, as long as we can defeat them one by one and force them to retreat on their own, the battle will be completely over.'
