"Vans, The lord of Griffith house, the emperor of Orion Empire asked you a question and yet you dare to refuse!" Hendrick had only one goal, that is to get the support of Stephen but what he didn't realize is that there are people whom even Hendrick couldn't touch easily. The Qilin Auction house isn't the biggest on the continent in name only but has the power to back it up.
Even though they can't fight the Empire head-on they could create a situation where the economy in the empire would collapse and if that happened then it won't take long for the empire to collapse on itself if not handled the situation properly.
Vans looked at Hendrick with dead eyes. His eyes didn't contain any sort of emotion. He looked at this six feet pig like he isn't even a human. Even though Vans liked to joke around but if someone got on his nerves then he wouldn't hesitate to sever the head of that person but he couldn't quite do that in front of the Emperor himself to his own son.