The Lies of Those in High Places (3)

The news that the printing house had been attacked forced Rex to get up at dawn, something he was hardly used to doing.

“Why here?”

The factory was certainly an important confidential facility.

However, it was important not for military purposes, but for its historical and cultural significance.

A book containing the duchy’s national ideology, printed with the first metal printing press.

So, if anything, the book was roughly comparable to scripture in a theocratic nation.

Of course, scripture was sacred, and a book containing an ideology was important.

But if you asked whether it was worth launching a raid like this and grinding up elite agents for it... well.

‘It has no military significance at all?’

Even if they destroyed the factory or damaged the original, it would have no effect whatsoever on the chain of command or supplies...