At the end of the meeting review, Ayaka finally asked Miyashiro the question she was most curious about: "Regent, did the Raiden Shogun really prepare a birthday gift for Lesser Lord Kusanali?"
To this question, Miyashiro merely smiled faintly and said, "Of course... not!"
Hearing Miyashiro's answer, Ayaka and Kokomi both showed surprised expressions: "Then the gift box you just left for the Akademiya is..."
Miyashiro: "Naturally, it's the 'gift' I prepared for the Akademiya. If you think about it, although Ei and Lesser Lord Kusanali are both second-generation The Seven Archons, Lesser Lord Kusanali is only five hundred years old, while Ei is over two thousand years old.
Furthermore, the two of them haven't even met, so how would Ei suddenly think of sending a gift to a God she doesn't know?
Strictly speaking, that gift box is indeed Ei's. I merely had Ei prepare a gift box with her own insignia and had her put a password lock on it. As for what's inside the gift box, that's the gift I prepared for Lesser Lord Kusanali."
Ayaka: "Then what gift did the Regent prepare for Lesser Lord Kusanali?"
Upon hearing this, Miyashiro showed a sly smile on his face, which made Ayaka feel a little uneasy.
Miyashiro, in turn, asked Ayaka: "Do you think the sages of the Akademiya will honestly hand that gift box over to Lesser Lord Kusanali?"
Ayaka exclaimed: "No way! Those sages wouldn't be so greedy as to even covet this, would they? This is being sent to Lesser Lord Kusanali in the Raiden Shogun's name. That would be a bit inhumane, wouldn't it?"
Miyashiro: "Who knows? Given Azar and their cautious personalities, they will definitely try every means to open and inspect that gift box. After all, an unknown item in the gift box is a variable for them.
By opening it and inspecting it beforehand, they can satisfy their curiosity, and secondly, they can see if this gift will have any impact on their plans.
After all, even the Akademiya is desperately trying to conceal from the public the truth that they have confined Lesser Lord Kusanali for five hundred years!"
Ayaka and Kokomi heard such a big secret from Miyashiro for the first time, looking utterly incredulous.
A strange thought lingered in their minds: Can the words 'God' and 'confinement' be used together?
One must know, the God here is not a God who failed in the Archon War like Orobashi or Osial, but a true The Seven Archons who possesses a Gnosis granted by Celestia.
Ayaka and Kokomi recalled the terrifying majesty and power of the Raiden Shogun in Inazuma, the Musoujin Gorge left by the Raiden Shogun's Musou no Hitotachi, and the remains of Orobashi on Yashiori Island, all constantly reminding the people of Inazuma that the Narukami residing in Tenshukaku is the undisputed guardian God of Inazuma.
But now that they learned that the Sumeru Akademiya had actually confined their own God for five hundred years, they all found it unbelievable.
Ayaka carefully asked: "Can a God... be confined? How is this possible? This is the God of Sumeru! Does the Akademiya possess some technology to confine a God?"
Miyashiro merely smiled indifferently at this: "Don't overestimate the Akademiya. Back then, after Greater Lord Rukkhadevata fell, Lesser Lord Kusanali had just been born into the world. Ignorant and naive, she was discovered by the people of the Akademiya and brought back to Sumeru City.
I estimate that the initial sages had great hopes for Lesser Lord Kusanali, hoping she could become the next Greater Lord Rukkhadevata. But as the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
The omniscient and omnipotent Greater Lord Rukkhadevata had left too great an impression on the Akademiya. With Greater Lord Rukkhadevata as a precedent, Lesser Lord Kusanali's rather useless wisdom left those sages utterly disappointed, so they gradually confined her to the Sanctuary of Surasthana, while they continued to worship Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.
Fortunately, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata left behind the Akasha as a legacy. Coupled with the absence of a God's constraint, the Akademiya rose to become the supreme ruler of Sumeru. Perhaps successive Grand Sages all yearned to become supreme wielders of power, and this situation was passed down from generation to generation, continuing to this day."
Kokomi said indignantly: "Isn't this just bullying Lesser Lord Kusanali because she's young? The Grand Sages of the Akademiya are too much! However, Lesser Lord Kusanali seems to be five hundred years old already. After five hundred years of cultivation, shouldn't a God's power be enough to break free from the Sanctuary of Surasthana's restraints?"
As expected of Kokomi, she immediately grasped the crux of the problem. Five hundred years is definitely not a short time. Even a pig, if it could live for five hundred years, would become a minor pig demon with some strength, let alone Lesser Lord Kusanali, who is a God.
A newly born God is like a human infant, with no combat power. Kokomi could understand this. But a five-hundred-year-old God, though the youngest among The Seven Archons, should have had enough time to achieve enlightenment. Why would she continue to endure the Akademiya's confinement?
To this question, Miyashiro replied: "One can only say that the Akademiya was very lucky. If they dared to do the same thing to the other six of The Seven Archons, the Akademiya would have been razed hundreds of times over, and the ashes of those sages would have been scattered.
But Lesser Lord Kusanali, as the God of Wisdom, is not among the fighting-oriented Gods among The Seven Archons. She's somewhat similar to our Inazuma's first Raiden Shogun, Raiden Makoto, or Liyue's God of Dust, Guizhong—the type who wins by intellect.
Besides this, the power composition of a God is broadly divided into two types: one is the God's own power, and the other is the power gained through the faith of the people.
Like our Inazuma's Raiden Shogun, before she became the Raiden Shogun, by her own strength alone, she possessed the power to slay Orobashi, the Watatsumi Omikami, with a single strike. Let alone her combat power after becoming the Raiden Shogun and gaining the faith of the people of Inazuma.
As for Lord Morax, the Geo Archon, he is an even more perfect combination of his own strength and the power of faith. It is precisely because of this that he was able to pacify all sides in the most brutal Archon War in the Liyue region.
Decarabian, the God of Storms of Mondstadt, Andrius, the Wolf of the North, and Osial, the Vortex Vanquisher of Liyue, all possessed exceptional individual strength but lacked the power of faith, which is why they all became losers in the Archon War.
And the current Anemo Archon of Mondstadt, Barbatos, before becoming a God, wasn't even a God. He was just a wisp among thousands of wind spirits. But because he protected humanity, he gained the power of faith. In the ebb and flow of battle, he ultimately triumphed over the strong with weakness, completing a comeback against the odds and becoming the Anemo Archon of Mondstadt.
After becoming the Anemo Archon, with the immense power of faith, he was able to blow away ice and snow, flatten mountains, and transform Mondstadt, which was perennially covered in ice and snow, into a paradise of eternal spring.
But look at all of Sumeru. In the rainforest, with the support and promotion of the Akademiya, most people still worship Greater Lord Rukkhadevata. In the Desert region, almost all the people there worship the Scarlet King. The people of Sumeru who worship Lesser Lord Kusanali are few and far between.
With insufficient personal strength and no power of faith to back her up, it's not surprising that the Akademiya has been able to confine Lesser Lord Kusanali for so long."
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