They would let him live, torturing and humiliating him day by day, making him consort with pigs and dogs, doomed to live out his life as a beast.
Two hours later, the crowd arrived at the pavilion in the northern courtyard and sat in a circle.
"A nation cannot go a day without a ruler, nor can Fengcheng be without someone to preside over the situation. With what has become of Scaro, I wonder what opinions you all might have," Wang, the Family Head, broached the subject of the City Lord succession first, watching everyone with a grave expression.
Under the oppression of Scaro, the twenty-five great families fiercely competed and developed, restraining each other. Now that Scaro was destroyed, the balance was broken. Without a new City Lord stepping forward, and given the unbridled development of the twenty-five great families, it was unpredictable what the outcome would be.
