“That’s all too true about power, no matter what world people are from,” Kain agrees, thinking about the sort of enemies he’s been up against, at home and in the gods’ war. It almost always does come down to a power struggle of some sort or another.

He scowls at the image of the demon that he’s looking at, at the moment, loathing its appearance. “Anyone who would willingly side with such monsters deserves punishment, of course. Though I hate to think of those who may have been manipulated into it…” But many of them were probably lost causes, like those Red Templars, who’d completely lost their minds...