The immediate threat was contained, but Kael knew containment was not victory. Damien Holt and Magnus Marlowe, driven by vengeance would launch subsequent, increasingly desperate attacks. Kael needed to incapacitate them by forcing them into a defensive spiral, using the strictures of the legal world Seraphina had imposed.
“Holt’s strength lies in his network of high-priced, unethical legal defense teams and his ability to hide assets globally,” Kael analyzed, showing Seraphina a historical map of Holt’s legal shields, data he had compiled through The Obsidian Throne prior to installing the Aegis separation protocol. “To fight him legally, we must target the foundation of his defense, not his money. We must use a weakness that already
