Kieran had seen a lot of negotiation tactics.
The fight over the smallest trifles during deals in real life; natives trying to outwit each other in the dungeon world and players trying to plot against each other in the big city. All of them had negotiation tactics in play.
Amongst all of those, Kieran was most familiar with the one the imperial envoy, Raulee, was using: overwhelm opponents by showing his advantages, or more precisely, bluffing or frightening.
As long as one has a big title to overwhelm their opponent, everything would turn out smoothly after that but for that to really work, there was a single condition: the title had to be real or have backing, not pure lies!
Therefore, what Raulee claimed should be true, but how true?
It really depended on Kieran's judgment.
So, Kieran presented a cold reaction and didn't really care about what Raulee said.
