"If he doesn't attack me and doesn't want to recruit me, the result will inevitably be that I will be recruited by another Fifth Energy Level. Whether I want to or not, I must eventually choose a side to join; I absolutely cannot continue to be a free person like I am now... This is a situation Axel does not want to see, and his attack is essentially to help me out?"
"Moreover, his hidden mentality is actually 'It's better for Mahdi to become the Fifth Energy Level outside the Empire than within the Empire'!"
"What kind of mentality is this? Would rather send a genius like me away than keep him in the country?"
Even Ian, a prophet who never misses a calculation, felt a bit overwhelmed: "He would rather let a being like me become an enemy of the Empire than become part of the Empire's power?"
"Yisen, can you sense if there's a part in the Solar Phoenix Bloodline that affects personality?"
"Huh?"