In such circumstances, it had become impossible for King Taren the Tenth to continue controlling his own city.
The nobility, especially the lower nobility, no longer dared to move about freely within the city. Some of them had watched, with their own eyes, as noble caravans were robbed clean by deserting soldiers and rioting citizens.
Naturally, they dared not leave their homes anymore. Within their own estates, relying on their strongmen to guard the gates or secure the mansion castles, they still had some defensive capabilities; once outside, they became fish on the chopping block, awaiting slaughter.
The high social status and class divisions they once relied upon were now cast aside by the rioting citizens and deserting soldiers, their eyes red with killing.
Without the deterrent of law, without the constraint of reason, and lacking the protection of guns and Longswords, these parasites on society's branches had nothing left but cowardice and baseness.
