Chapter 4683: Indifferent Divine Mothers

"Dear. Sisters. I. Am. Happy. That. You. Have. Joined. This. Meeting," ooo—o- began once all Divine Mothers had gathered. "I. Arranged. This. Meeting. To. Inform. All. Of. You. Of. Important. Developments... Starting. With. The. Matter. Of. Sister. O-o-o-o."

The Divine Mothers stiffened at the mention of their thought-to-be-dead sister. The idea that human civilization has captured and held a Divine Mother prisoner was infuriating to all of them. If not for the fact that they were even more cross with the War Faction for unilaterally invading human civilization, they would have been much more openly hostile to human civilization. It also helped that human civilization established a certain level of threat when they killed six powerful high-tier Divine Mothers one after another.

They could no longer treat human civilization as weak and feckless. It was also true that they were still fending off the Web of War invading human civilization. After months, their invading force had yet to even fully consolidate a single star system. They had failed to establish a bridgehead, let alone proceed with deeper invasions into human territory.

Of course, the Web of War was a tiny fraction of the net military power of Arakai Web Civilization, but their military power was very much tied up with war against the aquadites and dessandrites. Both of which were wars that the War Faction had pioneered, and both were wars that the other Divine Mothers sorely regretted not fiercely batting down, especially the aquadites.

The amount of resentment that all of them had towards the War Faction was very high.

"She. Is. Alive. And... She. Has. Been. Returned. To. Our. Ranks," the Divine Mother smiled, sending a wave of shock that rippled through the other Divine Mothers not in the inner circles of the Pluralist Faction.

"What...?!" Divine Mother oo—, the leader of the Virus Faction, couldn’t help but glare at her younger colleague with a shocked expression.

As the leader of the Virus Faction, the retrieval of Divine Mother o-o-o-o should have been her purview, though she didn’t have as much of an appetite to go out of her way to get them. It could be a useful excuse to attack the humans, should she ever have needed to. She was more cautious than her late friend, oooo—— who had boldly invaded human civilization, only to end up getting killed.

Still, when ooo—o- revealed a new member joining the meeting, she was livid. It impugned her credibility for the leader of another faction to rescue a member of her faction. Her six eyes shifted towards the mental presence of o-o-o-o in the mental meeting web. With a single glance, she could tell that this was not a fake.

"You. Are. Back..." Divine Mother oo— managed to squeeze. "We. Welcome. You. Back."

Divine Mother o-o-o-o was cold, however. "I. Expected. To. Be. Saved. By. My. Sisters. Not. Be. Abandoned. And. Then. Traded. Away. For. Concessions... It. Appears. That. I. Must. Reassess. My. Membership. Of. The. Virus. Faction."

That was humiliating. For her to share her desire to leave the faction this openly. And the older Divine Mother knew that she was doing it on purpose. To weaken the Virus Faction, which stood in just as stark an opposition to pluralism as the War Faction.

"We. Have. Conducted. A. Scrupulous. Investigation. Of. Her. Mind. And. Having. Thankfully. Detected. No. Traces. Of. Mental. Manipulation," Ooo—o- continued, striking while the iron was still hot. "Most importantly, this goes to show that peace is possible and desirable with the humans."

"They. Killed. Our. Sisters!" one Divine Mother bellowed with anger. "How. Can. We. Let. Them. Go. After. Nearly. A. Dozen. Of. Our. Sisters. Have. Died?!"

Many Divine Mothers stirred at those words. Indeed, it was hard to overlook the death toll of Divine Mothers who fell at the hands of Rui Quarrier. Ooo—o-, however, was prepared for that.

"As. A. Token. Of. His. Sincerity... The. Emperor. Of. Water. Has. Shared. With. Me. The. Method. For. Transcendent. Impunity."

This time, it was the War Faction that was utterly stunned by the revelations the leader of the Pluralist Faction. In order to obtain the method to Transcendent impunity, they had sacrificed so much. Six high-tier Divine Mothers, including their leaders, had sacrificed their lives in order to transmit the secret to their sisters, and the Emperor of Water just willingly gave ooo—o- the method?

They were so angry that words couldn’t fully do it justice. Only the vice-leader maintained a rational outlook, even if she was quite pissed herself. She understood why the Emperor of Water had made such a decision, and she would have done the same had she been in his position.

But it didn’t change that their situation had degraded even more with this revelation. Since the Pluralist Faction also possessed the method to Transcendent impunity, there was no doubt that the War Faction was truly worsened. She would leverage that secret to win over other Divine Mothers who had yet to receive it and create a political bloc that would become unstable, dominating the Divine Mother Council.

O——o- could also foresee that all three wars that the arakai waged would end, and unfortunately, there was not much that could be done for that. In truth, the Vice Leader of the War Faction was not as interested in the dessandrites and the aquadites anymore. The aquadites were a mistake in the first place, and the war with the dessandrites had lasted a decade, and simply wasn’t worth continuing beyond this point.

But the humans- she could not forgive the humans. Elven Divine Mothers killed in a matter of months. Her late leader oooo——, killed. Their faction, ruined. The arakai would become peace-loving pluralist idiots from this point on for a long time.

’Not under my watch,’ the Divine Mother mused, remaining silent as ooo—o- controlled the meeting from start to finish. There was no point in jousting with the Divine Mother in her home court; she didn’t have the political acumen of their late leader.

Instead, she simply stopped caring for the council anymore. She didn’t care that ooo—o- had signed a mutual security pact with the humans. She didn’t care that it might lead to a civil war; she just wanted to lay waste to the humans and kill all the Administrators of their civilization.