"Well, that was a spectacular failure." Kalim commented with a chuckle. "I told you from the beginning it won't work."
Thratvar bent over the seven unconscious bodies lying on the floor of their base.
"It did not fail." He stated. "It merely yielded unexpected results."
"Uh-huh – we lost the prototype and have to deal with a gaggle of knights, I really can't see this as anything else than a failure."
"Those men are masters of combat amongst your kind, are they not? We can very much use them for our purposes."
"Yeah but they're also centuries old, we won't be able to trick them in the same time way as the kid with an inflated ego."
"Then we won't trick them." Thratvar half-shrugged. "We'll offer an equal partnership, power in exchange for their assistance."
"What makes you think they would align themselves with us out of their own free will? They were leading an organisation actively fighting against your mind not so long ago, I don't think they'll so readily betray humanity."
