Chapter 1211 - 1211 – Human Cooperation (1/2)
”I disagree,” Gravis answered.
The Sect Master furrowed her brows.
She hadn't expected that answer.
”So, you're saying that you're justified in attacking one of my Vice-Sect Masters with the intention to kill?” she asked with a cold voice.
”No,” Gravis answered.
The Sect Master waited for clarification.
”According to your standards, I wouldn't be justified. In the mind of the Eternal Fire Sect, I was basically a visitor that demanded something without offering something in return. It was a demand, nothing else,” Gravis explained.
”However, I'm not part of the Eternal Fire Sect, and my priorities are not your priorities.”
”Your priorities are material. You are interested in resources and people. You're right in the fact that my action is going against the optimal way of getting cooperation and profits.”
”However, as I've said, my priorities are not your priorities,” Gravis repeated.
The Sect Master looked at Gravis with narrowed eyes. ”And what are your priorities?”
Gravis looked into the Sect Master's eyes.
”My priorities are whatever I want,” Gravis said. ”I want to meet my friends, and if you stop me, I will do everything in my power to change things.”
”Yes,” the Sect Master said, ”and the best way to accomplish that is to discuss the matter and talk.”
”I don't want to discuss the matter,” Gravis said. ”I will meet my friends, and I don't care how you accomplish it.”
”That's unreasonable,” the Sect Master said. ”You can't just demand something without anything in return.”
”I just did,” Gravis said. ”Additionally, I don't need to offer anything. After all, you are the very people that are stopping me.”
”You act like you have the right to stop me from meeting my friends, but you don't. People can meet each other whenever they want. You say that it's for security reasons, but that doesn't matter to me. I'm a single person, and the only thing I want to do is to see my friends and family.”
”That's one of the most basic things in existence, and I should have no problems in meeting them. Yet, you artificially put a blockade in my way and act like tearing down the blockade is a kind act from your part that demands compensation.”
”The same thing is true for your Law Comprehension Areas. You own them, and you demand resources so that people can look at them. Yet, who decided that you are the owner of these Law Comprehension Areas?”
”Yourself, and why does no one disagree with that assertion? Because you are more powerful than the people that are actually interested in these Law Comprehension Areas.”
”So, by that logic, if I have the power to declare that I own the entire Eternal Fire Sect, I should also have the right to do so.”
”However, I'm not doing that. The only thing I want is the ability to visit my friends. Your people have stopped me from doing so. They've stepped into my way while I was minding my own business. This doesn't concern them, and it makes no difference to them if I see my friends or not.”
”It's not their business, but they stepped into my path anyway.”
”Because of that, I don't think that I have acted incorrectly, even if I had killed the Vice-Sect Master.”
”I do what I want, and everything and everyone that stands in my path will be warned to go to the side, and if they don't comply, I will simply walk through them,” Gravis finished.
”The fact that I'm warning them is already more polite than necessary.”
The Sect Master had let Gravis finish his explanation while looking at him with cold eyes.