"The Apostle gathering," Rex said. "The operational priority for the next ninety days is locating Mordecai's stronghold."
"The methodology they're developing has significant gaps that will slow them down, but it won't stop them indefinitely."
"No," Lustia agreed.
"The introduction of Xavier-as-The-Undead-Bringer would redirect operational resources from location-focused work to response-to-active-threat work," Rex said. "Which is a different kind of problem that demands different kinds of attention."
"A city that knows a threat is coming eventually," Lustia said, "is easier to keep calm than a city that is actively under siege from someone they thought was on their side."
"And the undead demon army gives The Undead Bringer a scale that a single villain couldn't project," Rex said. "When three hundred and twelve constructs show up with him, the network can't treat it as a manageable individual threat."
"It has to respond to the threat to its existence."
