Chapter 714: Why only use our money if we can use others’ too?
"Oh, Stan--you’re still here!"
I looked at the golem in surprise. I did return first yesterday--or rather, he was the one sending us back--but I didn’t know he’d stay during the meetings. Honestly, it was nice knowing he would be there. With the Goddess back in Her divine abode, a Sacred Guardian’s presence would keep some unruly representatives at bay, don’t you think?
And I’d rather have him than the Goddess there.
"I thought an enforcer would be needed to uphold the fulfillment of the New Covenant," the golem said while looking at me. "Keeping the harmony between three realms is in my testament."
I couldn’t see it, but I felt like he was smiling at me. Maybe because the glow of his eyes was softening slightly? At any rate, good job, me!
And indeed, his presence had a big impact.
While everyone immediately received the content of the New Covenant in their mind, accepting it was another matter--especially for those who had been acting like there was no Goddess all along. Suddenly, they received the news that the Pope was being punished by the Goddess, along with a summon to the Grand Church for the next day.
Most of the representatives were confused, and about half of them came with aggravated expressions. Certainly, they did not expect that there would be demons in the Luxeana, or that a druid and a demon would be there as representatives too.
Normally, the representative numbers from each realm should be equal. But while Natha was a King candidate and I had an official endorsement from the elves and the drows that Aunt Amarein sent me, the humans were yet to have a unified voice. In that case, they should have come up with a decision and formally chosen an official representative first before Natha and I joined the meeting.
But knowing them, it might take a long time before they reach a decision. Stan might be an enforcer of harmony, but he had no say in the internal matter of a single realm. That was why Natha and I had to be there.
The presence of another realm’s representatives would give them the needed pressure to not prolong the matter, and with us there, Stan had a justification to also be there.