"I'm sure all of you already received my challenge invitation earlier," Grey said calmly as he swept his gaze across the elders. "Eterna sent it to everyone in the southern region."
His tone remained flat.
"Since many of you chose not to accept, then I can only ask Eterna to take the next step."
The elders' expressions changed instantly.
They knew exactly what he meant.
It was the same method Grey had used to take over other cities.
Dig up their past.
Expose the dirt.
Let Eterna act.
And finding that dirt was trivial.
Now that Grey ruled the Mandate Province, he still had full access to its databases. Even if the alliance had technically dissolved, the records remained. Every transaction, every hidden order, every buried report was still there.
It took him only a few seconds.
Immediately, notification sounds echoed across the sky as the elders' communicators lit up one after another.
[City Lord Xiu is no longer eligible to act as a City Lord due to past violations.]
