"You... you truly wish to make an enemy of our House of the Black Lion?"
Gotaition seethed. Leonidas and Orion's blatant disrespect pushed him to the absolute brink. He wanted nothing more than to unleash his fury, but he forced himself to swallow it. He genuinely believed that by having his exalted Divine Sigil House(Black Lion) take a step back and concede out of respect for their strength, the matter would be settled.
He was dead wrong.
Leonidas and Orion hadn't crossed the sea merely to bail out the Kraken. They had come to completely steamroll this Divine Sigil House. They wanted to broadcast a bloody message to every entity bordering the Kraken's territory: This leviathan has backing. He is protected by demigods.
They wanted to engrave such fear into the world that any powerhouse who saw the Kraken would immediately detour to avoid catastrophic trouble. With Orion bringing a shard of the magic mirror, blood was guaranteed to spill. Peace talks had never been on the table.
