Everyone went silent from hearing that no one expects him to start broaching this Matter, it's not that they forgot the matter or choose to ignore the matter even the Lord personally instructed them about this matter.
But it can't be rushed, it would bring more harm than good for the time being aside from that almost everyone here shied away from this thing as if they were afraid they would be dubbed into take responsibility of most volatile issue they currently facing.
As a surviving race one live In peculiar situation, they should have a certain self defense measures to themselves from very small tribes to powerful large tribes all have at one point started to develop a fighting force under the leaders direct control.
The fighting force was all tribes talented and potential and hot blooded youths and warriors as the certain age promising youths selected all over the tribe they would be directly train under the elite warriors under tribe leaders and then join this tribe fighting force directly, this was pretty much dreams of the all the youths if they are exceptional in anyway they will surely rise up above their peers, status in the tribe and resources and marriage all decided by their talent and ranks in the force.
Even a small tribe amounting ten thousand members must have a fighting force of seven hundred to thousand a large tribes at least have ten times or more, this was a also a resource of sorts an important one at that even the guardians aren't capable ordering around them however much influential and powerful they were, this could seen as immoral act by those around him could easily accuse this guardian abusing his power and status.
That was unless it was some special circumstances, the guardians couldn't do that,
yes the fifteen people were strongest existence almost the humans currently so they are acting as the guardians but it couldn't be ignored that they also the large tribes leaders.
The guardians does exist even before the tribe even split they were in fact strongest In the tribe after the patriarch after the calamity the tribe break up in to couple of dozens large tribes few surviving strong experts volunteer to be the guardians of the collective tribe, the rule is one who doesn't have the responsiblity of leading the tribe can become one.
They also have their restrictions though, the guardians council indeed take a charge in those special circumstances for example: an ambush or attack, strife between other races or temporary alliance with them or internal conflict between two or more tribes the guardians step in deciding what to do but other than that they have no rights to interfere with matter regarding tribe leaders affairs.
But during the decline of human talents the rise of the powerful people become Less and less at one stage the guardians all but story to the tribes only tribe leaders exists in this delicate balance, they did nothing to fill this vacuum created by protectors.
Tens of thousands years ago there was this incident happened which lead them to this predicament there are some ambitious leaders few times who intent to become more powerful and influential in their tribe by taking control of another tribe for their own gain, but how could they do this? the strength and population of the large tribe didn't vary much besides if there was a fight then both parties strength lessen this would lead third party to take the pie.
The key to this is borrowing external forces, the small tribes, they literally use the small tribes for this matter who doesn't have any backing and barely surviving and broken from the large tribes existing only for gave them a amount resources to their doorsteps.
The large tribes use these small tribes to harass their competitors but they have still underestimate the strength of the small tribes who acted as ball boy, they at some point allyed together and launched an attack the reason to broken even more large tribes, it also negativly also affected them as their strength decreased as a overlord race further.
A Certain change did indeed happen from, then on it become a taboo to taking control of any small tribes forces to fighting for themselves no one want to put them selves into a such a situation. But the tribe leaders also understand the importance of the position of guardians so they also acted as a guardians from the shadows.
They couldn't even find people to fill the leader position much less guardian position, so they were in a spot. Things have changed they didn't need their own fighting force any more but that doesn't make it any easier.
The fifteen guardians have different opinions in this matter some thinks this have to be dealt with extreme caution and step by step and few others thinks, it should not be delayed and could also dealt with by same manner they deal with the previous issue but despite that no one willing to take a part in this.
As if they were thing it was a fire and going to be burned by them, they were avoiding at all cost. it was indeed the case thinking the seriousness of the matter and with the personality of the Lord they would even killed in the fit of anger if they perform poorly like the otherday.
The Old Man was looking at his friend in disdainful manner, if he remembers correctly out of all the time they, discuss about this hot potato this fellow bring up the topic only Last time and the only time 'Why is this fellow is so shameless, he even skillfully use this like a shield to avoid his little responsiblity' He shook his head.
The others are also like that, but didn't bother to argue with him, everyone knows he was good with his words. nonetheless they can't help looked at one another as this matter coming at the right timing it's better give it another try they looked at one another shrewdly.
Naala spoke up glaring at Balli, "Since you already come up with this matter then why don't you go take this issue with your hand" she challenged as she looked at him calculatingly Balli shook his head as he put on a pitiful expression.
"Do you guys really think if I'm half charming personality as this old fellow I would wait around and asking permission or if I have courageous person like Kada then I would have acted boldly and do something about it"
Everyone shook their heads at this Kada looked at him doubtfully, he wasn't sure what this old schemer dragged his name into this, he didn't know it was a compliment or scheme to make him dragged into this mess, even if he almost didn't have political bone in his body he knows enough to volunteer to this troublesome issues.
The Old Man as usual spoke up, sighing to himself when he noticed the shrewed look on their face "It was not a Matter to delay that's for true but you, guys don't have to worry about we make proper arrangements about that matter" He looked around them before continuing with his talk "But we have to first prioritize what, should we focus on to improve in our tribes situation"
"What other matter need to taken care of, go on you can speak your mind about what we can improve for our tribe" The Old Man asked
Aadhi was the first one to speak his opinion in this matter "Old demon, did you also remember the documentation about the resources in the tribe and. And what do you think about exploring it, I think it was a must"
The Old Man nodded his head as he started to rummage through the his bag tied to his hips there were few who tried to peak into it like a certain shameless person beside him. The Old Man took out a old battered faded parchment opened it and spread the space in front of him.
It was a map of sort drawer roughly were the plain and Mountain and there was some odd looking faded glyphs were marked near few places this was filled with X mark beside them some other strange glyphs of sort seems explaining them.
They were all scrutinizing the map, with great interest the old man explained to Aadhi and everyone besides him "Our plain did indeed seems filled with resources, there is various resources spreading through out our, land this and this, this are Ore mines, there is energy stone mines as well they are quality wise quite good"
There is lot of refinement material in the north of the plain as well the area nearby mountain back then herbal garden of whole tribe the soil was great. There was a underground river exists that's why we have water in the well that should be around this area hmm!" he started to pointing out each and every one of them those who were not know of this looks quite impressed.
Sure there was all clearly few dried mines as they seemed exhaust during centuries of excavatio but there is tens of thousands of years passed even if they didn't replinsed there should be few new one appered in this lands.
It have to be said the overlord races seek and settled down on the blessed lands which had abundance of natural resources and high concentration of heaven and earth energy. they called blessed because the resources wasn't easily exhausted, it was like a rain water pooling around forming a natural pond only it was naturally replensed, as the resources mentioned here not all could be categorized as a finite resource.
Aadhi adviced "Well I think we should check out this places and find out the condition of this mines it would be nice if all of them replenised isn't it? " he smiled at them
But not all of them paying attention to him as their attention was glued on the map or more precisely at the certain spot of the map which indicating it was energy stone mine their eyes glowing in anticipation.
The Old Man also smiled at them seeing their look he was quite eager to get his hand on this energy stone as well "From your look, I could confirm where your mind has been, we certainly have to check them out" the other smiled sheepishly at him non disagree after all it was a energy Stone mine, there was two marked in the whole plain one noted to be dried up the the other one was being excavated at that time.
All of them hundred percent sure both of them should be in good condition, especially after the miracle happened the plain was starting to get rich with more natural energy so it was a bold guess, they thought to themselves even if the dried one wasn't starting to condense energy stones in few decades in this kind of environment it sure do.
If it was before they wouldn't paid much importance to it other than using this as a energy source to arrays and artifacts refinement to their personal use it was completely useless, one could only use them if they are purple road realm cultivator, as for qi realm cultivator their newly constructed energy Chanel would be ruptured even lead one to their death.
Energy stone was a condensed by peculiar features of blessed land, which has the capability of attract and harness the energy to a compressed state turn the natural energy to an energy stone, it wasn't advice to use by those below purple path realm as the energy was wild and observing them self harming.
Now that they know there is a chance for them to reach higher realm, they started to Coveting them, all of them could easily breakthrough to the purple path realm including the four, who recently had breakthrough with their decades of strengthening their base, with their talents and this energy stone it was like they were growing wings their cultivation would increase leaps and bounds.
On the other hand if they don't have energy stone they have to cultivate their progress could be average so everyone wants to have their share, they conveniently ignored the biggest problem, which was in their mind 'With the Lord's unfathomable cultivation how much does he needs it' They where hoping with two mines they at least could get few dozen then they would be satisfied.
After all their starting point even poor they cultivated by essence stones which was founded in Oremines as the excess amount of energy condensed into essence stone, they have to carefully processed from poison before absorbing the sparse unpurified energy this was very rare to obtain in other areas and horded by the qi realm experts.
Even if they are impure and sparse it did help them to slowly refining their energy to the point of quality change in their energy, with energy stone mine there should be lot of essence stone with out impurities and fear of poisoned this could help them nurture lot of qi realm experts.