Shortly after Venerable Jannzi shared her shocking insight and speculation about the Carmine System and the Blood Pact, Ves never thought about keeping it a secret from the Mech Trade Association.
The MTA was one of the well-deserved overlords of human civilization. It possessed a wealth of human and alien technology and could muster the resources of an entire civilization. Dozens of Star Designers directly renounced their allegiances to their former states and devoted themselves to furthering the Association's technological supremacy.
While Ves was confident in his ability to hide his greatest secrets, he did not have the confidence to keep the mechers at bay entirely.
He may be able to hide his thoughts and his less physical creations, but he could never obscure anything solid and concrete like the Carmine System.
Now that he had set a firm goal in mind for his distant promotion, it was inevitable for him to restart the Blood Knight Project.
