Chapter 575 (1/2)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
This plan was, of course, decided after first discussing it with the various dwarven Gods.
Though he might have spared those lower-ranking Isis members from execution, Sui Xiong couldn’t just let them go without any punishment at all. According to tradition, if someone was spared from execution, they should usually get a hard beating, followed by exile. He didn’t feel like beating them up though, so he just went with exile.
But where they should be exiled to, was a big problem in itself.
He couldn’t throw them into one of those places where only tenacious creatures like cacti could survive, nor could he send them to a dangerous place where demon beasts ran wild. These didn’t conform to the idea of “sparing them from capital punishment.” Plus, if these people weren’t looked after, who knew what sort of trouble they would get up to!
He’d actually considered sending them to the Republic of Northwest to do forced labor under the army’s supervision. But after thinking on it, he’d given up on the idea.
This group had been deeply influenced by Isis’s extremist ideology; if he left them in the Republic of Northwest, who knew how much of a disturbance they would cause!
Sui Xiong absolutely did not want to look at this sort of extremist ideology. Back on Earth, a world that didn’t even have real gods, extremist ideologies could build countries as strong as steel and as cold as ice. So how much trouble would they cause in a world like this one, where gods were real!
Even if these people could technically be classified as relatively conservative members of Isis, he didn’t want to use the Republic of Northwest to see whether or not the conservatives could stir up headlines.
Heaven have mercy, he’d only just heard about some sort of big news caused by the conservatives in Europe not long before he space-traveled.
Seeing as how he couldn’t just drop them off at some remote place or leave them in the Republic of Northwest, and he had to have them under watch to top it off—that didn’t leave very many places for him to put them.
Leon had suggested that if there weren’t any objections, they could send these people to Garth City. He had all sorts of ways to clean up these guys and make them obedient.
But when Sui Xiong saw the killing intent practically leaking out the corners of Leon’s mouth as he talked, he gave up on this plan as well.
You must understand, Leon was from the Igor family, a descendant of the Eagle Kingdom royal family. Even the current king of the Eagle Kingdom respectfully referred to Leon as Uncle; the last king, Woods’s son, had already died not long ago.
What would happen if a group of Orcs was left in the hands of the Igor Family, a family that had a deep and long-running grudge against Orcs?
This wouldn’t be an honest move at all; it couldn’t be done.
Sui Xiong asked Manissy for advice and was told that the Commonwealth of Gold Coins was already going through enough internal conflict. The merchant faction and the noble faction were constantly arguing with each other. If they added in an Orc faction, who knew what might happen?
“If you want to send them here then certainly you can, but I can only temporarily guarantee their personal safety,” she’d said, after a round of complaints.
So, Sui Xiong had shaken his head.
He then asked Ariel if she had any interest in accepting them in her underwater city. Ariel expressed with great distress that the sea people were rather xenophobic; it would be really difficult to arrange for so many of them to come all at once.
It was for lack of a better option that Sui Xiong thought of the dwarven gods.
He tried asking the God of Runes, and rather than immediately replying, he asked, “These people… I can ensure they aren’t killed, but if they come to our side, in order to avoid trouble, they’ll probably spend the rest of their lives in underground mine shafts and caverns. That isn’t a problem, is it?”
Sui Xiong thought on that, then asked, “Won’t they get sick from long periods without sunlight?”