"I object!" xN
How could the people of Silver City, with their "simple and honest" folkways, tolerate this? Upon hearing Rejedo's words, they spoke up almost without hesitation.
"Silence!"
Colin took a deep breath, his solemn eyes fixed on the powerful figure before him from within his sunken sockets.
As for this so-called Café, although he did not understand what it meant, he could infer from the context that it was likely the name of some place or organization.
Whether the other party was Sequence Three or an angel, the essence was more or less the same—in the advancement ritual for a Silver Knight, one needed to obtain the blessing of an angel or a higher existence.
In other words, the faction this person belonged to definitely had angels. As for whether he himself was an angel, or whether his faction had any True Gods, that was impossible to know.
If they fought, even if the man before them was only Sequence Three and they risked their lives to kill him, Silver City would face nothing but one-sided slaughter at the hands of an angel afterward.
So... they still had to negotiate.
The people of Silver City did not know what Colin was thinking, but he still possessed the authority of the Chief. Even though the crowd was indignant, they fell silent at Colin's command.
Before quieting down, however, they still shouted things like, "At worst, we'll fight him to the death!"
Colin silently nodded to himself and looked at Rejedo.
"You saw it too. Compared to losing their freedom, the people of Silver City do not fear death. Death has always been by our side, while freedom is all we have left."
"Trapped in the Land of the Forsaken Gods, sinking into darkness for over two thousand years... Is