Chapter 2672 Unacceptable
Leonel's list was enough to even make Talon's eyes pop wide open with shock. The fact that they would have to bring forward three of these treasures just for a chance at the Life Tablet was even worse.
It had everything from entire mines that were strategic resources even on his world, all the way up God level World Spirits. And yet, it was impossible for Talon to refuse that the Life Tablet was, indeed, worthy of this.
How long had the various races been trying to get their hands on it? And yet, despite knowing exactly where it was, none of them had dared to do much of anything about it. This was the weight of the God Beasts even so long after they had vanished.
Even Minerva had never expected Leonel to do this. She was so hyper fixated on the Segmented Cube that she didn't even hazard a chance at getting their hands on the Life Tablet.
Then, she "understood". Could it be that Leonel thought that this was what they were after all this time?
If she took a step back, it was possible that Leonel simply didn't understand the taboo around the Life Tablet. It wasn't like he had ever tried to hide it, and he had even announced to the world that he was a Wise Star Order.
In a situation like this one, it was very possible that he never thought that they would be after the lesser treasure.
'It can't be...'
Minerva suddenly had a thought that struck with so much fear that her hand trembled.
Could it be that Leonel was doing all of this purpose? Could he be purposely feigning ignorance? Could it be that he wanted to use the Owlans as a shield to obfuscate what he was doing?
Minerva's heart trembled so violently that she couldn't calm down for a long time. Her thoughts were so consumed by this that she couldn't even divert her attention toward doing something to stop Leonel from taking over the entire situation.
The Owlans seemed to be in a much better situation than the humans were... but were they?
They too were heavily tied with the God Beasts of Creation. They too had flown too close to the sun and gotten nearly burnt to ash for it.
In their eyes, he probably looked like a youth who was lashing out at the injustice of it all while in reality, he was throwing Minerva and her people so far into the spotlight that he could slink away into the shadows.
Minerva's murderous intent flared like a raging torrent, but just as quickly, it was doused in a water so cold it made her bones shiver.
She couldn't kill him. It was impossible for her to kill him. If she did, or if anything happened to him on the way back to his world for that matter, what would the world assume?
Obviously, she had killed him and taken the Life Tablet.
Her name was even Minerva.
It was like she had seen a trap and taken a dive into it with both feet, not even testing the waters with a toe first.
'No. No, it's impossible for anyone to think that far ahead...'
She couldn't believe. For the sake of her own sanity, she couldn't believe. It was a necessity, or maybe it was the exact opposite of whatever that was.
In order to set up such a scheme, Leonel had to have a grasp on politics, and even more importantly, her own psyche to the level that he could accomplish this.
But this was only the surface level, because on a deeper level...
No, she really didn't want to believe it...
The Pluto Race was in such a bad position right now. She had only gotten faint inklings of the ongoings.
It was impossible for them to willfully plunge into such troubled waters...
Unless Leonel had manipulated them into doing so.
And that was the most unacceptable fact of them all.