However, Trianne, as lively as a red apple on the Sky Screen, soon explained the reason to everyone.
Why had Anaxa remained perfectly safe despite being so "blasphemous toward the gods"?
He had even earned the recognition and respect of many people, continuing to teach students at the Grove of Epiphany?
Trianne raised her little face and said brightly:
"This, Trianne knows!"
"Everyone says that Sersis, who symbolizes Reason, is the most tolerant of new ideas—"
"It is, just like Kephale, the Titan of the Negative World, one of the very, very best Titans to us!"
Mimi still looked utterly incredulous and muttered softly:
"But it can even tolerate such new ideas..."
"It seems this Sersis really is quite tolerant."
Castorice nodded gently and added:
"Yes, which is why we reached an agreement with those Titans who bore goodwill toward humanity."
"During the Journey of Flame-Chasing, they would provide us with support."
"And we would only return their Core Flames to their places at the very end of the journey."
Qian Renxue continued to gaze up at the Sky Screen, her eyes blazing as though she wanted to etch every word from the image into her heart.
She felt that she had learned far, far too much from the Sky Screen.
And there was even more knowledge waiting for her to explore.
She gently placed both hands over her chest. Her expression was incomparably solemn as her calm voice rang out:
"Is this the breadth of mind of a Demigod of Reason?"
"Faced with the theories of those who blasphemed the gods, it could calmly accept them and even humbly learn from them!"
So gods were not necessarily lofty beings beyond question.
They could also be teachers to their believers, and students to those who opposed them...
Gods should not