Since 'next' is a time-order word, you need another.
'Then' is a time-order word. You are not stating a 'fact', nothing happened abruptly, or 'suddenly', and you aren't comparing anything, 'similarly'.
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The power is given shouldn't be mistaken or It could all fall.
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Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
The answer would be the 1st option.
- Folk Cronholm was spying for the Allied nations.