Miles rolled his eyes when Rhine puffed his chest out, looking more like his younger self even though his current form was a wizened elder.“I visited the demon world several times to find out about their intentions when the intrusions became far too noticeable to ignore. It’s where I found out about the interface that was present on their world. It was a tool they used to acclimate themselves to a new world while also giving the demons the ability to field a tremendous number of T5 mage-equivalent generals. I knew that humanity needed the same thing.”Miles raised an eyebrow at how proud Rhine looked. This is a story he had wanted to tell for quite a while.“There was only one issue.” Rhine’s tone dropped. “It was hard to implement the interface. First, because ambient mana was so little studied. And after I solved that issue, we simply didn’t have the power to influence all of Earth.”Miles blinked when he saw the shade getting more transparent. He wordlessly supplied the additional mana required to keep it active, if only for a very short amount of time. Rhine understood the issue popped up from Rhine’s expanded storytelling, containing far too many irrelevant details for the question asked, and only had the purpose of boasting.“I’ll make it short. As I said before, the only option we discovered to kick-start the process was the lives of nearly all the high-level mages that existed. The demons accepted the Compact since they looked at the delay as an insignificant blip in the time span that they consider in millennia. The only condition was that you were never to wake.”Miles frowned as he increased the mana supply. Rhine’s shade would disappear soon, and there was nothing he could do to prolong it beyond a few seconds.“Did you plan out a way to wake me?”Rhine smiled but said nothing. The silence kept the shade active.“Did you tell the Supreme Leader to keep the world unaware of the Compact?” (...)