Zhen Liu's plan was initially to set this knock-off Kaijin Lord and a good chunk of his retinue off on a wild goose chase.
While they were away on their hunt, Zhen Liu would then reunite with his allies and Kaijin, conjure up a whole fuckload of zakos, and then violently take the mine from the hands of the remaining, guarding Kaijin.
During the resulting chaos, he was going to let loose any slaves that wanted to be free and replace them with zakos.
Ideally, at the end of all of this, the mine would be in Zhen Liu's hands, he'd get the materials necessary to fix up his stuff, and there would be one less pretender for his title in the universe.
The plan was clean, presumably quick, and would end with few casualties on either side... probably.
However, over the course of the time it took for him to get to this moment, Zhen Liu had learned more and more details about the place that caused him to realize that his initial plan of his was incredibly short-sighted.
