He turned his head away, making a gesture as if to shut up and remain silent.
Alice chuckled and took a bite of the apple she had casually grabbed, making a crisp sound. "Your opinion doesn't matter here, after all, it's your superiors who want to cooperate with my master, not you."
She deliberately emphasized the phrase "my master," causing Stanley and I to simultaneously turn to look at her in alarm.
Wow! This girl, she must have done it on purpose!
Fortunately, I eventually got the information I wanted from the man.
"...Initially, it was just a group of people who spontaneously created a study group to help each other. Although everyone was a person who had been screened and eliminated, there were still some people with a little talent. After being discovered, they gathered together in a scattered manner and were even allowed to enter the library to browse the spellbooks stored there."
"Then one day, almost three or four people simultaneously reported observing unusual changes, and a mage who claimed to be a prophet suddenly found us and conveyed our words... Yes, that's right, the words you're thinking of. Although the other party said he had something to do and left in a hurry, that was indeed the motivation for us to establish [Wisdom of the Stars]."
"...So, it's not that people from the [Mage Mutual Aid Association] and the [Arcane Research Center] joined [Wisdom of the Stars], but rather that the people of [Wisdom of the Stars] originally came from members of these two organizations?"
I was surprised by the secrecy revealed in this story: "But why insist on using a cult to organize and spread it? Since they are mages, wouldn't there be other better methods?"
The fact that there are no gods is a consensus among the vast majority of mages now. Unlike the City of Apocalypse, which is deeply influenced by the lingering religious atmosphere of the past, they probably wouldn't offer any unnecessary rebuttals to this.
The reply that came back was equally absurd.
"Although I was troubled at first, if you only look at the listener's perspective, that passage was indeed full of a strong religious and doomsday prophecy atmosphere. In addition, doing so could quickly spread the organization. After weighing the pros and cons, I found that there would not be too much of a problem, so I chose to let it go."
He smiled bitterly: "Of course, this is the first time we've done something like this, but we never realized that recruiting too many diverse members can also lead to instability in the organizational structure, thus triggering a series of events that have already affected the stability of the organizational structure."
"By the time we noticed the problem and started preparing to address the root cause, it was already too late."
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