If someone were to ask me what the most important element in building a faction is, I would answer without hesitation: “Power.”

In the face of overwhelming force, nothing else matters.
No matter the countermeasures.
No matter how one tries to resist.

If you have the strength to crush and tear everything apart, all prior efforts and plans are rendered meaningless. They become mere futile struggles.

I had learned this truth bitterly in the past.

Which is why I can speak of it with such certainty.

However…

Such overwhelming power—enough to destroy everything—is impossible to attain under normal …