169 Rational Conversation (1/2)

The nobles saw a bunch of files appear in front of Don and started to float towards them.

”Read it”

He ordered them calmly when the files landed on their hands as the nobles slowly opened the files to read them.

When the nobles started to read the files, their eyes jumped out of the sockets. The old man, Davy Lamber's hands began to shake as he closed the file and looked at Don. On the other side, Manuel Demet seemed just like the old man, Davy Lambert, afraid and shocked.

”Your majesty, this is”

Leonard Burian opened his mouth as Don raised his hand and motioned him to stop.

”Spare me the 'this is not true', dialogue, Burian. If you ask me, the file has only the fraction of the shady shit you've all done till now”

Burian didn't dare speak any words and make him angry because he wasn't an idiot to anger a peak level grandmaster and he heard about the massacre during the war between Korrinth and Agoria.

After a few minutes, all the nobles closed the files and looked at him as they tried not to look too guilty by avoiding too much direct eye contact with him.

”From today, there will be no noble title in Emir, you all are just rich people, that's all”

The nobles in Emir expected this, still, they were startled to hear it from him. They would have opposed him or at least shown their disagreement if he didnt present the files that had all of their crimes and shady businesses.

”You can't do this”

Davy Lambert the old man threw the file in his direction and stood up. Arrora wanted to step forward and teach this old man some manners but Don stopped her with a wave of his hand.

The ex-nobles of Emir still remembered the scene in which he cut Massen's fingers with a glass shard and broke almost all the bones in Ryan's body.

After seeing the files, they didn't want anything but to return home safely with all their body parts intact, even the strongest family in Agoria, the Burian family head, Leonard had no guts to open his mouth. The families survived this long by not pissing off powerful people like Don because they knew that even if he slaughtered their families, the empire wouldn't give a damn about a little noble family in a backwater kingdom like Emir as the empire had their own problem to take care.

”What about this? I'll first talk, then if any of you have a disagreement, you can tell me, that way we can have a conversation like reasonable people”

The nobles from Agoria quickly nodded in agreement as the nobles of Emir, took a few moments before nodding. Davy Lambert growled and sat down

”As you know, the laws and everything is very biased towards nobles, for example, you can kill one or two commoner for sport and pay a couple of coins to their family, that's just a pure bs, not justice ”

Manuel Demet felt a cold chill in his spine as he continued

”So if there's no noble title, you can't use that to save you from the crimes and can't take whatever, whenever you want. You might think I'm doing this because I have something against the nobles”

”No shit”

The nobles thought to themselves

”And that's true, I do have a history with nobles, but I'm not going to root out all of you from my kingdom because of some nobles who I don't like. If I wanted to do that, I could have used the crimes on the file as a reason and rooted out all of you”

Everyone understood that by rooted out, he meant massacred all of you. Yet, they sighed inwards realizing he might not kill them.

”I called you here to ask your support, don't think I need your support, I'm just asking, if you support me, you can get richer and be like the nobles in the higher-ranked kingdoms, except, you wouldn't have the noble title”

They were surprised to hear him as they became curious to know what he was planning.

”For instance, I'm going to open high-end businesses in Sigalla, Mairis as well as in Emir and Agoria, the kind of business that attracts more rich people and opportunities for you to take advantage of ”

Although they didn't have any idea about what kind of business he was talking, they grasped the fact that, if his business really did bring more wealthy people to their kingdom, there might be opportunities for them to exploit, just like he said.