Louis did not greet or preface, directly cutting to the chase: "I know what you're all worried about. You think I want to turn you into toothless tigers."
He raised his hand, pointed out the window, where three heads frozen stiff by the cold wind hung quietly under the setting sun.
"But think about it, in the face of absolute power, do your so-called teeth really have any significance?"
Louis's voice was not loud, yet it sent a chill down everyone's spine: "The Knight Order of those three legion commanders is stronger than each and every one of your houses. Now their heads hang at the gates of Frost Halberd City."
No one dared to argue, for Louis's absolute military strength was an unquestionable fact, yet it didn't mean they completely agreed with his words.
Their silence expressed their dissent, the air so still it was almost possible to hear the crackling of firewood in the fireplace.
