"Who said anything about freelancers? I was planning on commandeering the entire program. Remember, evil and nefarious."<br/><br/>He was joking with Michael, cause he followed the sensible allies principles the constructs had come up with. 'When recruiting allies, one must ask two questions. Can they shoot? And will they aim at your enemies first?' The issue with angels was Draiss was planning on also including demons and possibly devils, which meant he would have to keep an eye on any group to ensure they didn't too close to the others and start trying to blast them. The first ones would be a test bed, and pushed to their limits.<br/><br/>He watched, linked with his two guards, letting them see what the angels used as a training regime, so they could send it to the rest and start designing a training program of their own for the organics that wanted to join. He simply watched for another hour, occasionally adding 'helpful' suggestions to the angels to tease and annoy Michael, before eventually heading home, without rearranging the mountainside with Michael for a change. He waved to Avi and her class, before heading inside to sit down and try and extract some of the poison that was seeping into him from Ve'len.