Fundamentally, Saleen was not a greedy person. Due to the overwhelming stress caused by the Black Bishop the previous time, Saleen had to take this risk up north.
If he could not amass sufficient power before the Holy See's army arrived, everything would come to naught. When the Holy See wanted to exterminate a person, they would start by destroying the soul This was in order to remove all traces of the person from the face of the plane.
Saleen's idea was very simple. The Cloudflow army was the weakest out of the four empires, it was even weaker than the mercenaries from Sikeqinya. Their navy was extremely powerful though. The Cloudflow navy had even sealed most of Tanggulasi's waters, forcing the Tanggulasi Empire to station their iron cavaliers along the coast. The Cloudflow fleet could easily deploy their troops onto the coast and conduct a raid otherwise.
