Oh good, someone else in here's got the right priorities. The more people he can find looking to circumvent the system with him, the more likely they'll actually figure out what they're doing, and, ideally, the less dirty Valmont's own hands will have to get. This is the sort of thing he'd had henchmen for back home, after all. But, new-forged unholy alliance aside, it's what Kaphlar says next that really catches his attention.

"...Naturally?"

I'm sorry, did he just.

"Are you implying that you have some sort of... innate magical powers?"

Valmont's seen humans do magic, but he's always been under the impression that it's the sort of thing that takes years of study - sort of like what they're supposed to be doing here, but with less shagging. Natural magic. Some people have all the luck.