"We... cooperate with the Federal Parliament? But aren't we an organization established to resist the oppression of those nobles?"
Listening to the words coming from Leo's mouth, Langton was stunned for a moment, unable to believe his ears.
"In fact, the Spark Organization is no longer a pure resistance organization, but a strange force composed of businessmen, ambitious people, prophets, and nobles."
Leo shook his head and revealed Xinghuo's true current state to Langton without caring.
"Your name is Langton, right? Did you know? In the Spark organization, the number of high-level rebels who are truly civilians is actually only one-fifth of the number of traitors who lurk into the Spark organization with their own purposes.
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Spark's current prosperity and strength on the surface are actually completely supported by these people. In the name of the Spark organization, they wantonly launch invasion wars to fight for the interests of the forces and kingdoms behind them."
"Like this... But, Your Majesty Leo, since you know all this, don't you think of ways to punish them?"
Langton was dumbfounded. His lips moved a few times, not knowing what to say.
"Of course I have the ability to deal with them. After all, I am the leader of the Spark Organization and a ninth-level leader. However, if I really do that, the Spark Organization will fall apart immediately."
Looking at Langton who was shocked and confused by what he described as the corrupt situation of the Spark Organization, Leo didn't care about it.
"Don't be surprised by this, Langton. As long as they are valuable to us and the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, I will not refuse their participation, just as I will not refuse to cooperate with the Federal Congress.
They provide us with enough resources and manpower, and we drag more small and medium-sized federation kingdoms into the war according to their needs, so that they can regain the territories of those small kingdoms with legitimate reasons.
If not for this, the Spark Organization would not have become the strongest resistance force in the mainland today."
"...I'm sorry, Your Majesty Leo, I don't know why you are saying this to me, but I cannot agree with your philosophy.
If we can do whatever it takes for the sake of profit, then what’s the difference between us and the private armies raised by the nobles?”
Taking a step back slightly, Langton's tone also became darker, and his expression was already on guard.
This meeting not only failed to achieve the purpose of alerting His Majesty Leo, but unexpectedly learned the truth about the "darkness" behind the Spark Organization. Langton felt as if something was suddenly broken in his heart.
He originally thought that as a resistance force fighting to liberate civilians, the Spark Organization was at least the 'just' party.
But if this is the truth of everything, and the Spark Organization is really the culprit who started the war across the entire Federation under the instructions of the parliamentary nobles, then what is he fighting for?
For whom was the blood of the fellow rebels who once fought side by side shed?
"If you don't agree, then you don't agree. Why do you have to say it in person?! Why don't you just find a chance to leave this lousy organization? If you anger him, I think it will take a lot of money to take you to escape!"
In response to Langton's violent reaction, Dark Crow also screamed in his mental sea.
"You just said that you don't agree with my philosophy?"
After listening to Langton's words, Leo raised his eyebrows, put down the quill in his hand, stood up from behind the desk and walked in front of Langton. A pair of hawk-like gray eyes stared at Langton coldly. The terrifying aura came from him.
It emanated from his body and oppressed Langton's spirit.
"I'll give you a chance to take back what you said, and I'll pretend that what just happened never happened."
"Sorry, I won't take my words back!"
However, Langton did not take the step. Instead, he endured the pressure with great difficulty, holding his head high and speaking resolutely.
"You established the 'Spark' resistance organization from scratch and worked hard to overthrow the oppression of the nobility and liberate the common people. I admire your great actions.
However, today, when the Spark Organization has completely rotted, instead of stopping it, you have become an accomplice of the top rulers for the so-called interests, bringing war and death to innocent civilians.
Now that the Spark Organization is no longer on the side of civilians, please allow me to bid you farewell.
Although I come from a humble background and have little knowledge, I know one thing. There are always some ideas that are above all interests!"
"Hell, why do you still want to stimulate him?"
Seeing Langton's reaction of "not knowing whether to live or die", the Dark Crow was already wailing, and was ready to immediately teleport away with his unlucky host.
"...There are always some ideals that are above all interests?"
However, what Langton and Dark Crow did not expect was that after listening to Langton's confrontational words, a cold smile appeared on Leo's sharp face.
"Well said!"
Returning to his seat, Leo gathered his momentum, causing Langton, who was struggling to resist the pressure, to stagger.
"The outside world says that I established the Spark Organization to liberate the common people. But few people know that the Spark Organization was actually founded by me out of hatred for the nobles.
There's a long story behind this, but let's skip to the end.
My purpose from beginning to end is to let those nobles who are so high above me experience what it feels like to fall from the sky into the dust and have to crawl at the feet of the 'reptiles' they had previously looked down upon.
I gave the organization the name Spark. In fact, it was with the belief that the initial spark of fire can also spread into a huge force.
The initial spark will either ignite everything that can be ignited and form a prairie fire, illuminating the night with fire. Or it will go out in the darkness due to lack of fuel and become part of the dust of history.
For this concept, I develop Spark regardless of the cost, accept all the companions I can accept, and accommodate all the forces I can accommodate.
I even gave up my own interests and cooperated with those nobles that I hated from the bottom of my heart, just to expand the scale of Spark as quickly as possible.
Many "smart people" use my organization to achieve their private goals. I see all this, but I do not interfere with their actions.
What they do is also adding wisps of new flames to the organization.
This caused the Spark Organization to develop rapidly, and also caused it to gradually become bloated, festering, and turbid.
Today, Spark is no longer the pure resistance organization it was at the beginning. The tentacles of various major forces are constantly fighting in the organization, and it has even reached the point where it must rely on prophets to maintain itself in order to avoid self-collapse.
But all the costs are worth it. The initial little 'spark' has spread into a raging flame throughout the entire federation!
No matter how many shady transactions there were behind this, in terms of results, our branches spread across the entire federation, a large number of kingdoms were wiped out by us, the outdated aristocratic class was completely eliminated, and the people were liberated.
Perhaps most of those achievements come from the armies of the major kingdoms hidden among us, but that doesn't matter, because after all, they are under the banner of the 'Spark' organization, and they are also part of us in name."
Having said this, Leo waved his hand, and an illusory federal map image appeared in the air.
On that map, all areas of the entire federation, including the three kingdoms, were covered with red dots representing branches of the Spark Organization.
Among them, the territories of many small kingdoms are completely dyed red, representing the areas currently occupied by the Spark Organization.