First, the Royal Guards had moved out now and then Kubrick had also left the castle? It couldn't be that the Royal Faction was trying to play the oldest trick in the book, right?
To have the defenders conspicuously exit the place of protection and create a perfect assassination scenario to lure the snakes out? Just who would be fooled by this?
Sure, Darius' mission might seem like a good excuse with its high rewards, but no one in their right mind would be confused about something like this. It was too open-handed and obvious.
The royals - and especially Kubrick - should know this. Yet they still had gone ahead with it, leading to the same question as before.
What was the Royal Faction trying to accomplish?
Seeing that he had circled back to his first question, Darius cut off his train of thought. Over-analyzing was something faux intelligent people tended to do and he had gotten rid of this nasty habit during his youth on Earth.
