The Executioner

Chapter 780: The Executioner

As the saying went, water too clear had no fish, and a person too discerning had no followers. Those in power could often afford to be quite tolerant of their subordinates.

Depending on each person's disposition, rulers could show some leniency toward many of their subordinates' faults—such as incompetence, laziness and slackness, even greed, lust, and accepting bribes.

But that tolerance had a bottom line, one that could not be crossed: disloyalty. No matter how tolerant or incompetent a ruler might be, unless they had been deceived or were plotting something like a counterintelligence scheme, they could never tolerate disloyalty and betrayal from their subordinates.

"Ms. Stephanie, I hope you take this seriously. This is an extremely grave situation." Evenson spoke as if he were deliberately being alarmist. "A subordinate's disloyalty is like a plague. It can easily spread rapidly through an organization, eventually causing it to split apart and collapse. Like this..." As he spoke, Evenson pointed. A Corruption spell flew out, and the pitiful iron ball that had been kneaded and squeezed all this time swiftly turned into a heap of black sand under the spell's influence. "An organization that was once solid as iron becomes nothing but loose sand under the influence of ever more disloyal people."

Stephanie looked thoughtfully at the pile of iron sand. Indeed, traitors were like cancer. One person's disloyalty could very likely influence a whole swath of people around them. When people saw someone betray the organization, yet get away with it without receiving their deserved punishment, they would inevitably think: since betrayal had no serious consequences, why should they bother putting in the effort to remain loyal?

Or perhaps a superior and their colleagues discovered someone had committed a serious act of betrayal, but feared being held