Rather than hate the Emperor, who'd turned his people into the undead, Seagald was trying to change his mind and correct his mistake.

That was Seagald's goal. He was never against the Emperor in the first place. On the contrary, if the undead curse had never occurred, he would still be the one closest to the Emperor.

"Now I get it. If we assume that was his goal, then everything makes sense... I wonder how I never even considered it."

"Opposing the Heaven Defying General and backstabbing the Metal God General, a spy sent from the surface, were both for the sake of..."

"Then why now? Because the Anti-Skull experiment wasn't perfect?"

Lee Shin-Woo briefly thought about it and soon firmly shook his head.

"There's that, but also they couldn't approach and convert the Emperor's forces into Anti-Skull given their strength. The entire reason we were able to cause such chaos here was because we'd killed so many of the Twelve Generals."

"That's really persuasive, coming from the guy who's killed most of them."

"The timing... The timing was paramount..."

He'd finally figured out Seagald's plan, but...