"Is it really necessary... I mean... such high pressure requires a lot of manpower, doesn't it?"
Elder Mantle slightly frowned, not because he thought Ian was too ruthless—in fact, for Terra, a mere purge was nothing new, who wouldn't do it? The Sublimator Nobles could simply reroute rivers and mountains for the sake of convenience, crushing the villages that refused to move underneath them. They didn't care about those people's opinions at all since they had warned them beforehand, considering this their moral duty fulfilled.
Ian just didn't want any noise within his territories, which was not difficult to achieve. Honestly, it was even convenient for the Mountain People allied with Ian to eliminate all dissenters—it was, after all, necessary to divide the spoils after war. The only question was where these spoils would come from.
