A heavy sort of silence fell over the room. It seems our problem is much larger than just our area. It made me wonder how far they’d gotten with their influence. Was it the entire country or just the western half? How intricate had it become? Also, the biggest question of why, though I had a few guesses. Money, of course, is at the top. The development of technology that could control someone without the need for any sort of arcane art would be quite profitable. Slavery of any sort was outlawed and all information, any inkling of arcane methodology at all, had been destroyed. Better yet erased. The highest-ranked...