"Being complicit with the Army of the Black Phoenix" was a charge that, once substantiated, carried with it a seventy to eighty percent chance of ending up on the gallows.
Charles was a typical transmigrator. His dictionary didn't include options like surrendering without a fight or seeking peace by compromising. To him, "If you're heartless, I'm not obliged to be righteous." If you try to screw me over with such tactics, I'll just wipe out your entire family.
Yep, that was very Charles.
And very transmigrator.
He now held positions in both Inglima and the Lionheart Dynasty and wasn't really frightened by any crackdown from Fars' political scene.
Charles always had two Sacred Order members by his side, in addition to a host of beastmen and pirates turned Labyrinth Guardians, amongst whom there were several Transcendents.