(If you have the resources for Paper Magician, please come find me. I want to play it.)
The Three Tribes Council was proceeding very poorly.
At the start of the meeting, the other two conservative tribes had continuously pressured Silverash.
At the urging of the other two tribes, Manzhuyuan, as a religious force, also used Pramanix, Silverash's younger sister who had become the Saintess, to pressure him, demanding that the Silverash Family withdraw from the Three Tribes Council and surrender actual control over the valleys and mining areas.
Beyond that, they had turned their greedy eyes toward the Karlan Trading Company in Silverash's hands.
The scale and wealth of this monopoly made them drool with envy.
Silverash endured pressure from both the conservatives and the religious faction, while also having to deal with pressure from his own sister.
Enya Silverash, the Saintess and religious leader, sat quietly in Manzhuyuan's seat of honor. Her eyes were closed, as though she could not see Silverash being targeted.
They were like strangers.
Perhaps because they had witnessed a divine miracle, the elders of Manzhuyuan seemed emboldened. Once inclined toward neutrality, they had now sided with the conservatives.
Everyone turned their eyes toward Silverash.
They were waiting for his response.
At that moment, the bell in Saintess Enya Silverash's hand suddenly rang.
Though it was not particularly loud, it seemed to ring beside every person's ear.
The Saintess grasped the sacred bell and knelt toward Karlan Holy Mountain, listening to the oracle of the Snow Mountain Goddess.
Yet as she listened, her expression gradually became strange.
After a long while, she rose from the floor, held the sacred bell, and once again bowed in the direction of the holy mountain.
Slowly turning around, she became the focus of everyone's attention.
Opening her mouth, Enya