During the negotiations, Derius had said that the cage space was very unstable. Pulling out just two bricks would make it collapse.
Pulling out two bricks meant using the spatial methods the Pamireth Church excelled at to carry out targeted demolition within that space, much like demolishing a building with explosives.
As the Divine Son of the Pamireth Church, Derius was using Elder Xidi and the Seventh Knight Order, currently inside that cage space, as bargaining chips to secure benefits for the Pamireth Church.
Judging by the direction of today's negotiations, he had indeed succeeded. Faced with the Order God Church's aggressive stance, he had secured as much autonomy as possible for the merger.
That much was clear from Leon and Laure's deeply dissatisfied complaints, because they valued tangible benefits over empty titles.
What they wanted was to enshrine the True God Pamireth in a story in a supplementary volume of the "Light of Order," then suck the Pamireth Church dry and assimilate it completely.
Originally, that should have been the direction things took.
But now, with those words from Bishop Byrne, everything had veered wildly off course. No, it had been overturned!
Standing there, Kallen even wondered whether, despite the "security regulations," this was something he should be allowed to hear.
A conspiracy like this seemed to have gone beyond the barrier of "silence," beyond anything that could be contained by forbidding people from leaving the Ankara Hotel before negotiations ended.
Once the bricks were pulled out, the cage space collapsed, and Elder Xidi and the Seventh Knight Order met with disaster, would he, someone who knew the truth, still be able to walk out alive?
Using a knight order and a Temple Elder as sacrifices, whatever the purpose, was not a price Bishop Byrne could openly bear, no