The uproar wasn't small in the slightest. It felt like every time that Elder Rayword opened his mouth to give them another requirement, it would only get worse.
Elder Rayword hadn't been chosen randomly. For such an important matter, how could they send someone who they couldn't trust and who didn't have the cache necessary to negotiate? While Elder Rayword wasn't necessarily a great talent of any one of the four factions, he existed in a lane of his own and was an exceptionally powerful soul expert.
Due to this, his senses were very sharp and he was able to read people quite easily. In addition to this, his mind was sharp and his speed of thought was exceptional. It could be said that there wasn't a single person present who would have been in a better position than him too, whether it came to a matter of skill, or that of raw power.
