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Doing something more humane? What did he even mean by that?

Every plan Zion had in mind was centered around destroying the Arden family, destroying in the sense of wiping out their power. Zion knew that Arden deliberately used their luxury goods empire as a front, something the public could easily latch onto, a clean, shiny image of wealth that distracted from the vast swaths of land they controlled through the mining industry, especially in impoverished, war-torn countries.

And so, Zion figured: bombing the Paradis island, wiping out everything that happened here, including the Alpha Prime area, would stop the Arden family and the Alpha Prime Union from ever interfering with him again. It would be a warning, a demonstration of what Zion was capable of if even a few elites dared to get on his nerves.