A scholar laughed disdainfully: "These forty Dragon Kings of Valeria, high-profilely declaring their country as 'Freehold', a Fortress of Freedom, is enough to make me scoff,"
"And their colonies outside the mainland are all slave societies without exception, all keeping the Pure as mercenaries to become their violent institutions, yet claiming to be the Nine Great Free Trade City-States,"
The scholar lowered his head, wrote down two lines in his notebook, then looked up and said, "In my opinion, these Dragon King Clans need to be purged, then personnel should be installed to re-govern, to funnel benefits to the Imperial. What are your opinions?"
"Since they do not respect the Divine Spirit, let us, the Beloved and people of the Divine Spirit, give them their final release."
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