Chapter 985: Private discussions (1)
Chapter 985: Private discussions (1)
“They won’t stop.”
I looked at the prime minister after he said this and slowly gave a nod in response since I knew that he was right.
Seeing this, the prime minister continued by saying, “What do we do then?”
I just simply gave a shrug as I said, “There’s nothing that we can do about them right now.” “Huh?” Both the regent and the prime minister were surprised when they heard this.
Shaking my head, I said with a sigh, “That’s the problem with those religious people, even if you try to reason with them, it doesn’t mean that they’ll see reason that easily since they have their faith. So even if we were to try anything, it’s unlikely that they would listen to what we have to say.”
Then after a pause, I added, “Not to mention, the amount of power and resources that they have far outclass our own. Even if we wanted to do something, it would be hard for us to do anything. It is more likely that we would be overwhelmed by the power of the Holy Empire before anything could happen.”
Both the prime minister and regent knitted their brows when they heard this, but neither of them denied what I said since they knew that I was right.
There was a reason why the Holy Empire was considered one of the four empires of the human
race.
Religion was one of the biggest ways to gather people and the Holy Empire had been gathering power for many centuries now, so they couldn’t be looked down on.
If anything, it could be said that they were the ones that were in danger because they had offended one of the biggest religions in the Holy Empire. This was a religion that had a large control over the ruling of the Holy Empire, so there were many things that they could do. Seeing the worried looks on the faces of the prime minister and the regent, I said with a reassuring smile, “There’s no need to worry, they won’t do anything.”
Both the prime minister and the regent looked at me with doubtful and confused looks.
I wasn’t surprised by this as I calmly said, “If they were planning on using those forceful methods in the first place, they wouldn’t have come for a meeting. They would have just directly acted against us and tried to suppress our country to take me away.”
There was still a trace of doubt on the faces of the prime minister and the regent, but they eventually nodded in agreement since they could see the reason in my words.
They were people that were well versed in politics, so they knew what kind of tricks one could use to achieve their goals in situations like this.
They knew that I was right about the Solista Religion being able to use these political moves to achieve their goals.
Especially since the one that was leading the group was the pope of their religion.
With the power that he wielded in the Holy Empire, it should have been easy for him to achieve this goal.
But why didn’t they do that?
“It’s because they can’t take back a saint that isn’t willing to go with them. A saint can only show its value when they follow them willingly. Forcing a saint to go along would actually hurt them more than anything.” I said in a calm voice.
The prime minister and regent once again revealed confused looks.
The two of them were people that were more focused on things in this world, rather than believing in the heavens. So when it came to the faith of people, they weren’t as well versed as me who came from a modern world where religion had greatly developed.
I just said, “Simply put, there’s too much risk using a saint that won’t obey since there’s no telling what they will do.”
Then after a pause, I added, “At the same time, it isn’t as if the gods don’t exist. The gods know if someone encroaches on those that they bless, so they will send down heavenly punishment. Such as the lightning bolts that fell down.”
The prime minister and the regent revealed strange looks when they heard this, but the looks on their faces made it clear that they were thinking about what they had seen yesterday.
The lightning bolts falling down from the skies had left quite the impression.
I might not have believed that the lightning bolts were heavenly punishment myself if it wasn’t for the fact that I had met the gods when I received this Mark of God.
After a moment of silence, the prime minister just simply asked, “What do we do then?” This was one of the times that he was out of his depth since he wasn’t someone who was familiar with religious people in the first place.
He really had no idea what to do since he was out of his depth here.
This was not something that he was familiar with, so the only thing that the prime minister could do was hope that the king would know what to do.
I just looked at him for a bit before slowly shaking my head and saying, “There’s not much that we can do right now.”
Both of them knitted their brows when they heard this, but I just said with a shrug, “Even if we wanted to do anything, there isn’t anything that we can really do since they are the Holy Empire.”
The prime minister and regent sighed in response to this.
But I added, “Of course, that doesn’t mean that we can let our guard down. There’s no doubt that there will be other things that they will be planning to do in the future. I’m not surprised if they are already discussing this matter right now.”
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On the other side…
“Your grace, should we send someone to kidnap that man? If the other religions find out about the Mark of God on him…”
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