In life, eight or nine things out of ten never go as one wishes. No one could truly live carefree and entirely for themselves. Solam already lived freely enough, but he still had to take certain things into consideration. If he were the only person on this island, Solam naturally would not care. But now, more than a hundred thousand people lived here. Solam could not simply disregard them. Since he had brought them here, he had to take responsibility.
It was like buying a puppy, giving it a name, and bringing it into your life. Once you did that, you became responsible for it—let alone when these were people! Solam might be a bastard, but he was not so bad that he would not dare shoulder responsibility. Avalon did not teach such irresponsibility.
Besides, at least eighty percent of these people had come here because of Eilistraee. If Eilistraee had not needed more believers, Solam would not have gone looking for trouble by buying slaves. And now Eilistraee was ready to ignore them over a disagreement? Was that not a little too bastardly?
This was also the first time Solam had seen the arrogance of a god in Eilistraee. The so-called arrogance of gods was the matter-of-fact belief that their own interests should be placed above everyone else's. Every god had this mindset, whether good or evil, as if mortals were merely the appendages of gods. Solam had always found this inexplicable arrogance utterly contemptible. In fact, in Solam's view, it was not certain who was whose appendage.
Still, how should he put it? Although Solam disliked this bullshit logic, he could not really blame Eilistraee. After all, almost every god was like this. Eilistraee was already one of the better ones. At least this woman was genuinely willing