There was one grave mistake in the plan that Cliff suggested. The plan was made to cause several rounds of attacks to strike Lanterk. This would push Lanterk to the point of anger that he will utilize more of his technology just as Zeraphine did.
And so the entire plan assumed that Lanterk would get hit by at most, five bullets. And that was already being hopeful. Lanterk was a Top Tiered Presider. It would be very difficult to kill him.
But Cliff and the rest underestimated the effect that Meryl had on Lanterk. The beauty shocked Lanterk so much. It was as if Lanterk fell to the strange phenomenon of having love at first sight.
Because of the amazing scene that he witnessed, Lanterk froze. His thoughts were taken captive by the beautiful figure of Meryl. Meryl also had a rather playful look on her face which weakened and numbed the senses of Lanterk.
And so, what was supposed to be just a few bullets, became a full barrage.