"You wish to remain here and serve the lord?"
I was caught off guard when I heard the new relic user we found saying this, but it didn't seem like there was anything that was going to change his mind with the way that he nodded in response.
In the end, there wasn't anything at the moment that we could do since this was his decision.
Only it didn't seem like that was indeed the case.
"That hesitation in his eyes, it's clear that something happened."
"I'll look into it."
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"The lord has his family as hostages?"
This was certainly not a situation that any of us had been expecting.
After all there was no doubt that this was the worst possible decision that one could make in this situation. It wasn't as if this kind of thing wouldn't be found out since behind us was the full power of the racial alliance.
Unless the lord was confident in hiding this fact from the entire continent, he certainly shouldn't have done something like this.
