The local leaders began to murmur among themselves after Mortimer's words, some agreeing that this was indeed a problem, even considering that this Spiritual Sage clearly wanted to harm Minos with this.
The supreme elder of the Edwardstone family heard that, but he could not agree, even if he did not like Minos. "Sect Master Burgess, you don't know the whole situation, so you think the empire is losing from this.
But the truth is that we have a very detailed agreement with sect master Stuart that favors the empire immensely...
Anyway, the Gray Clouds Sect is in no way weakened because of the actions of its master."
Other people nodded in agreement, knowing that the number of experts in this organization had indeed increased after the changes initiated by Minos.