The rally got a common answer.
Shazaman, who had no ulterior motives, used Dina Zedai's personal safety and part of the Humayi family's wealth as a bargaining chip to pledge to the Order to ensure that he really had no ulterior motives.
Even though the person raising the question has no evidence, you still have to come up with something to prove your innocence, rather than the other person proving your guilt.
This is the prerogative of the Order.
As the party that accepts the bargaining chip, the Apostolic Order should take appropriate measures to tell Shazaman and more people that the Apostolic Order does not doubt them and that everyone is still a family.
This is an exchange of trust.
The response of the Holy Order will fall on Shazaman in the form of benefits. Whatever he gets is the response of the Holy Order.
And everyone's answer is to turn Dina Zedai into a sage's student.
The value of a teacher in a society of scholars is self-evident. Everyone knows that Dina Zedai's body cannot support her to study anything. This is just part of the exchange of interests.
A reasonable exchange of benefits is the compensation an innocent victim should receive when he still has to prove his loyalty.
This consensus quickly reached the ears of the sages, and Azar opened an impromptu meeting.
Strictly speaking, he hates the meeting system. Many decisions must be approved by the majority of people before they can be implemented. This decision is too stupid.
But he is only a great sage, and the six sages have been Sumeru's common interests for thousands of years.
He can't resist the rules.
The Order Council and the Six Sages are the ones who make the rules, and the rules and laws of Xumi are naturally biased towards the Order Council and the Six Sages.
The Great Sage is only the most powerful among the Six Sages, not the only one with power.
[Perhaps we should look for an opportunity to turn the six sages into the only great sage? 】
Azar's mind was up and down, but he made up his mind.
After all, there are still too many Six Sages.
"This was their response. Mr. Shazaman responded quickly and directly roped in his companions to form a temporary alliance of interests because of his special situation."
A sage spoke seriously, "What we have to deal with now is not a single person, but an entire interest alliance in Xumi City."
"The foundation for the establishment of the alliance was the defeat of the [Thirty Men]. Their failure also caused us to lose credibility in the eyes of most people."
With a group of untrustworthy people tasked with protecting your property and even your life, it makes sense that you would want to find another way out.
"The response was reasonable."
Another sage's voice was dry and hoarse, "In the end, we don't have any evidence, it's just a reasonable suspicion."
He characterized the matter as simple reasonable suspicion.
Although doubting without evidence is reasonable is very unreasonable, but everyone here is a sage, and of course they are considering the issue in the interests of the sages.
"Shazaman is taking advantage of this identity. If we continue to doubt him, the matter will turn from reasonable suspicion to retaliation. This will not solve the problem for the Apostolic Order, but will expand the problem."
"It's not worth it. I suggest giving up the investigation of Humayi's family."
His words were tired.
Everyone knows clearly whether they are really suspected or just crazy about all possibilities.
Of course, what we are doing is retaliation, but at this point in time, we still need a reasonable package and illusion.
Without even an illusion, this matter can only end here.
"The other party's sincerity is indeed enough." A sage turned over the report, "But the fact that he did this is worthy of our consideration."
He put down the report, "Doesn't he really have any extra thoughts and ideas?"
His words made no sense, but this was also the answer Azar wanted.
No matter how abundant the reasons are on the surface, if you bring things out in a group and talk in front of many people, this in itself is a threat and disobedience.
If you really don’t have these thoughts, why can’t you resist and accept our inspection obediently?
Now that you have thoughts and actions of resistance, even if you act like you are loyal, you are no longer loyal enough.
This kind of psychotic mentality is common in human history. One prominent point is "When I want to kill you, the only way for you to prove your innocence is to actually die."
Because I am nobler than you, because I am your father.
The truth is that simple.
The moment you had the idea of teaming up, put this matter in the open, and forced me to restrain my thoughts, you have actually resisted my will.
Everyone knows that I want to deal with you. You gave away your daughter and property, and you seemed to be very loyal.
But since you are so loyal, why do you still resist me?
Resistance is a sign of disloyalty. Your disloyalty here is completely disloyal in the eyes of superiors.
Objectively speaking, this idea is quite neurotic, but it is indeed an idea that can be called "mainstream".
There are not many people who apply it, but those who are qualified to use this idea have enough will to form the "mainstream".
Azar, one of the Six Sages.
"He wants to use the power of the group to protect himself. It is obvious that Shazaman's position has already been skewed."
"He doesn't trust us, and there are currently only two forces in Sumeru."
He did not continue.
If you don't trust the Order Council, you can only choose another side.
Just like [Legacy of the God King], if Rama rejects it, he can only choose the Order Academy.
The weak must find support at this time. If you don't choose this side, you are actually choosing his opposite.
There is, of course, a possibility that the existence of Shazzaman might actually be a coincidence.
But between destroying him and verifying his loyalty, the former is obviously simpler and easier.
"This matter can be dealt with later. Shazaman's thoughts may indeed be impure, but in the current environment, we can't find a more suitable reason."
The old sage looked calm, "It's not that we can't find evidence, it's that we can't find evidence that can be accepted by the public."
"After they have preconceived the idea that we intend to persecute the Humayi family, any valid evidence we have will be regarded as a forced whitewash and cover-up."
"This is a general trend. Shazaman just used a reasonable means to protect himself."
He stood up and looked around at his colleagues, "In the final analysis, their ideas and concepts are completely based on one core, and we lost."
"Everyone, how about we let Mr. Shazaman go and talk about our more difficult enemy - the [Thirty-Man Group]?"
In the eyes of the Six Sages, the most difficult enemy is not even Rama, but the [Thirty-Man Group].
"Failure is the root of all doubt, I fully agree with this." Azar nodded slightly.
His expression was as usual, and he was the calmest among all the sages with different expressions.
"The base of the [Thirty-Man Group] is also the desert people. They have mastered the border defense power of the rainforest. Once they choose to betray, we may really lose."
The reason why outsiders are just suspicious and take no action is because there is still a Grass God platform.
Even though there is a certain possibility that the God of Grass is weak, compared to the Seven Rulers, everyone is still willing to believe that He is actually very powerful.
This is the source of everyone's confidence that the God's Order House faces the sand sea without gods.
Because of this, the Fatwa could not do more to Shazaman.
So guilty.
Behind unwarranted anger is often fear and uneasiness. Their overreaction will make many people make undue speculations.
The Six Sages did not have such confidence.
They know that the God of Grass cannot be trusted.
If the little Lucky Grass King was released, it would obviously be more likely to help the desert rather than the rainforest.
After all, the Six Sages of all ages have made this kind of decision, but at critical moments they expected the gods to step forward and help them maintain their rule - they were just arrogant, but not stupid.
Everyone looked at each other and finally fell into silence.
The problem is obvious, but it cannot be solved.
"The rebellion of the [Thirty-Person Group] has become an established fact. No matter what we think, everyone now thinks that we will take action against the [Thirty-Person Group]."
"When things have reached this level, the [Thirty-Man Group] has only one way left."
When everyone thinks about something like this, although it is not a fact, it is still something [that has not happened yet but will definitely happen].
With this understanding, the betrayal of the [Thirty-Man Group] is nothing more than a matter of sooner or later.
"But we don't have enough time to perfectly regain this part of the power from the [Thirty-Man Group]."
A sage said rather tactfully.
The work of suppressing the Thirty-Man Group really only started recently, because the situation in Xumi was very stable before. Although they had enough time and energy, the sages of that period did not have the heart to really deal with the Thirty-Man Group. 】.
As for the oppression and injustice mentioned by Asfad... that is routine treatment.
Cleaning up and oppressing the desert people on a daily basis is not a special operation.
But by the time they had the idea to do so, the environment no longer allowed them to take action in a drastic way.
"We all know that the betrayal of the [Thirty-Man Group] is only a matter of time, and the [Thirty-Man Group] also knows that we must want to deal with them."
Everyone knows the answers, but no one has taken action yet.
"But none of us will do anything."
Azar went on to describe the difficulty of the problem.
Generally speaking, when a person goes into great detail about how difficult a problem is, that's when he's going to offer you something you wouldn't normally accept.
Because the problem is difficult, it makes sense that the reward for solving it is high.
"The [Thirty-Man Group] needed Rama's attitude, and they didn't want to fight with us. As a result, Rama came here and beat them as traitors in the sand sea, and then all of them were executed on the spot."
"After all, a long time ago, they were the first to betray Shahai and choose to seek refuge in the rainforest."
The earliest traitors lived better than all the desert people. The hatred for internal traitors was often higher than the hatred for external enemies. Everyone knew this.
[The Group of Thirty] needs Rama's promise and Rama's promise to accept them, so that they will have a reason to betray the Order.
Otherwise, if you betray the Holy Order, others will still label you a traitor. This will mean you are no longer a human being, which is a complete loss.
"And we can't take the lead at this time. After all, as long as we take action, the strength of the rain forest will be weakened."
"Shahai just sits back and watches, no matter how you calculate it, you will make money."
This is the problem.
After restating the question, Azar observed the expressions of his colleagues.
It was clear that they were all aware of the extent of the problem.
In a way, Shazaman's matter is just a small [Thirty-Man Group] issue.
The reason why they stayed on the issue of Shazaman was also to think about how to resolve the position of the [Thirty-Man Group] by solving the problem of Shazaman.
The answer came and it couldn't be solved.
"I'm afraid there is only one way left. We need to ask the rulers of other countries for help in the name of the gods."
Azar threw out the answer.
This is obviously a proposal that no one would agree to under normal circumstances.
But when he repeated his description of the problem and everyone acknowledged that it couldn't be solved, his proposal suddenly seemed worth considering.
"Asking for help from those in power in other countries..."
The issue of losing face can be postponed for a while. After all, depending on the direction of the situation, they might not be the masters of Xumi in the near future.
Face is certainly precious, but it would be too stupid to lose power for it.
"I don't even tell you about the power within Sumeru. Because we have lost the trust of the gods, we have almost no more power that we can trust."
Azar tried to keep his expression as calm as possible.
The main force of other state agencies is usually the god himself and his legacy.
Mond is the god of wind and the dragon of the east wind left behind by him, Liyue is the god of rock and the immortals who are attached to him, and Inazuma is the general of thunder and lightning and his retinue - Yaegamiko, the palace minister of Narukami Taisha Shrine.
As for the Knights of the West Wind, the Qianyan Army or the Shogunate Army...either they really underestimate the power of human beings, or they simply don't need to place too much expectations.
The core force is clear at a glance, which is the god and his followers.
And Xumi...
The god of Sumeru is imprisoned, and the descendant of the Great Merciful Tree King is Lanna Luo. The Little Lucky Grass King should not have his own followers, so he can only inherit the legacy of the Great Mercy Tree King.
So the question is, will the sage consider trusting the Little Lucky Grass King or Lanna Luo.
Therefore, many troubles that were not problems in other countries have become difficult to deal with in Xumi.
This is the result of not having core force.
Once you do something like asking for help, of course it will expose a lot of problems, and maybe everyone will be nailed to the pillar of shame.
But no matter how bad the outcome is, it will not be worse than the cessation of the ruling power of the Holy Order in their generation.
"The matter of asking for help must be arranged as soon as possible." The old sage nodded, "But once we ask for help, we will basically confirm the fact that the gods are weak."
"How to solve this problem?"
Still need to be more decisive.
They have already reached the point of asking for help, and they are still worrying too much. Maybe by the time the other party responds, the royal flag on the city wall has already been changed.
"It is a fact that the gods are weak, but more of the truth is in our hands," Azar and the old man looked at each other, "right?"
