The room was deadly silent for the next minute, as while the position of the Sun Emperor was extremely lucrative, the fact that they would be just a figurehead put their desire off.
Of course, the fact that even their harem wouldn't be safe from the 'dirty' hands and ideas of Eric made things even worse, but that was only secondary opinion at the moment.
But thinking a bit further, their life was already like that, they were already servants to Eric's whims, and this was just an opportunity to be called servant in a grander way.
For that reason, once the first moment of hesitance was gone, candidates started jumping at the opportunity.
Now the problem was who was Eris going to pick, if that were even a problem, as he just threw the 'dead' Emperor's crown to someone in the crowd saying,
"Play your part right, and you won't regret it!"
