Chapter 1141 A Foundation Of Lies.
The other leaders said encouraging words to her despite the fact that they believed that she would die soon. She is going into dangerous territory and might never return. The risks are too high and she didn't have to go. In fact, as the leader of this rebel group, she shouldn't be the one to test the efficacy of the stealth method that their sponsor gave them. But she has to. That's what happens when she goes to a meeting with 2 other transcendents and is the only one to return alive. You lose trust and influence. Tanya claimed that the artifact that was meant to help them killed the two transcendents that went with her. That explanation didn't relieve the other leaders. It did the opposite. It made them trust the artifact even less. They didn't trust it more when they witnessed others dying for not heeding her warning and looking directly into the artifact. It made them fear for their lives. Now she has to prove that it works or die trying.
She took one last look at them. There are about 16 of them here. 5 leaders and 11 followers. They are all the transcendents they have in their rebel alliance. The rest and majority of the alliance are at their other base camps. 2 of the followers here are hers. The others have 2 followers each except for one other demigod that has 3. She used to have 4 followers. But two of them died recently. So her influence fell in the alliance and took with it her voting power. It is another reason why she couldn't refuse this mission when everyone voted for it. The majority wanted her to risk her life to test the artifact she brought and she didn't have the power to veto it. All of them are standing around under the canopy of the forest. They are waiting for her to take the step that will take her beyond the borders.
