Happiness came from comparison.
When Rorschach heard about what happened to Vaughn in Savi Bay, he suddenly felt that his own troubles were no longer a problem.
Savi Bay on Vaughn's side was a mega populated area. There were dozens of large, medium, and small cities, with a total population of more than ten million.
There were seven major cities along the coast, and there was an unknown elemental territory in the center of the ocean, which was highly valuable for development.
Vaughn took his acolytes on thirteen ships and traveled along the relatively safe coastline to familiarize themselves with the environment … but they encountered an elemental tsunami!
Yep, they were just that unlucky. Huge waves more than ten meters tall brought with them an intense tide of unknown elemental energy that directly swept through the entire ocean. The major cities lost at least 100,000 people, and the economic losses were incalculable.
The navigators on the ocean were even more unlucky. Although the magical mist had thinned out over the years, the visibility on the ocean was still limited to less than thirty meters. Most of the time, they had to use special spells and scouts. By the time they discovered the storm, it was already too late.
However, since Vaughn was chosen to be the leader of the four vanguards, he naturally wasn't an ordinary descender. He forcefully protected most of his fleet from the waves.
Although six of his thirteen ships were destroyed, at least his fleet wasn't completely annihilated. However, what happened next was truly unavoidable.
Accompanying the elemental tsunami were countless magical beasts, sea monsters, and all sorts of strange species. After the first wave of elemental storms, they attacked every living creature they saw.
These invaders should have come from the most mysterious elemental plane, the Cloud Sea.
The most inconceivable thing was that Vaughn even saw pirates among these magical beasts. They were the guides and vanguards, leading these crazy magical beasts to destroy everything.
But if it was only at this level, the experienced Vaughn should have been able to deal with it. However …
"… Titan. There's no mistaking it. Judging from the magic waves and size, as well as the intimidating aura that makes one's hair stand on end, it's definitely a Titan. He appeared with a dozen primordial god-like existences. He glanced at us, and with a wave of his hand, lightning tore through the ocean, and my ship was completely destroyed …"
That was what Vonn reported to the Truth Symposium. Then, he was drowned in angry accusations and accusations.
The evidence provided by the side proved that everything was true. Titan and the Primitive Sea God System's witnesses numbered in the tens of thousands. The major cities were still counting their losses. Feng En's failure could be considered unavoidable. To put it bluntly, Feng En was just unlucky. Feng En himself wasn't at fault.
But he still failed.
There were no more than twenty survivors of the shipwreck, and only six or seven of them were apprentices. Only the rookies who were seasick, dizzy from the Elemental Tide, or who could not acclimatize to the environment on land managed to escape.
Out of 500 apprentices, less than 20 had survived. No matter what, Feng En's work could no longer continue.
The worst thing was that he had lost so much, but there was nothing he could give to the council.
Just like how there was Seviala in Rorschach's team, there were also other archmages' apprentices, relatives, friends, and so on in every team. All of them had disappeared for no reason whatsoever. Who would be able to accept this?
Everyone was pointing fingers at Vonn, and he was stripped of all his past glory. Even his job title and position in the magic society was stripped to the very bottom.
He was now an extremely ordinary high-level mage. It was just that his identity had been revoked. He would no longer receive any benefits or missions. In fact, the Mage Union didn't even know who he was.
Did this sound acceptable? The Mage Country was a society of honor. This meant that Vonn would no longer be able to survive in the Mage Country. Nobody would invest in his research, and nobody would touch his research results or products. Even the royalties he received for his previous research were now completely free of charge.
Right now, the only thing he could do was simply be a hired thug. Or perhaps he wanted to be a researcher. But even if there was a place that would be willing to accept him, he would be nothing more than a laborer. He wouldn't even be able to sign off on any of his research papers.
From now on, Vonn would be a "non-existent person" in the Mage Country. Everything he did would be someone else's work and gain.
The Mage Society … No, modern society was just that cruel. They only cared about the results. As for the process, you could talk about it if you wanted to. After all, as long as the results were good, they would praise you to the heavens. If you messed it up, no one would care how you messed it up.
This doubtlessly gave Rorschach and the other three team leaders a warning and pressure. They knew what would happen if they couldn't produce results.
The Truth Symposium and archmages could accept failure, but they couldn't accept failure so quickly and without any results.
If they failed without being able to resist at all, would that be purely due to force majeure? Ha, since they failed, someone would definitely have to take responsibility for it. The frontline commanders weren't in the wrong, which meant that the decision makers were in the wrong. How could the Truth Symposium possibly take responsibility for this?
The result was naturally that Feng Enquan would take the blame.
Even Rorschach, who had always been heartless, was a little scared by this outcome. He felt a little sad for the death of the rabbit.
However, Vonn didn't have the time to sigh over this matter. He had plenty of troubles as well.
Vonn didn't know what methods the Truth Symposium used, but many of the acolytes who had left that day returned one after another. The elven society even sent him a guarantee that they wouldn't cause trouble for him during the experiment period. Of course, Rorschach didn't believe them at all.
Although these acolytes had returned, it was obvious that they didn't have the heart.
They looked at Rorschach with eyes filled with hostility and disdain. They even formed two factions with the acolytes who had stayed behind. Not only did they not communicate with each other, they even started fighting with each other in less than three days.
Meanwhile, the Game Church was also viewed with hostility and hostility by the other factions.
That's right, they viewed the Game Church with hostility rather than dislike. They all seemed to view the Game Church as an enemy.
It was obvious that the Truth Symposium's methods were simple and crude. They also wouldn't investigate the situation here in detail. It was fine as long as they achieved their goal.
However, Rorschach also thought things through. He didn't simply mix the two groups of acolytes together. Instead, he distributed two types of uniforms. The red and black uniforms represented his acolytes, the red and green uniforms represented the acolytes, and the new acolytes were to sleep in the stables.
"Yep, this is differential treatment. Isn't this good? Otherwise, how could I let the acolytes who have been following me feel at ease? Besides, even if they're all experimental subjects, there are still those with high survival rates and those with low survival rates. Isn't it good to differentiate them? "
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