Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1031

Chapter 1031: Chapter 1031 - Taming Protocol, Again - 2

The opportunistic nobles weren’t destroyed, but ’permanently precarious’ was a good way to describe their situation.

The fines and penalties that Julius, Arturo, and Selphira had imposed with the authority of the agreements that the losing side was required to accept had been calculated with the precision of someone who wanted the maximum possible payment without drowning the payer to the point where drowning became a reason to resist.

That calculation was intentional.

A destroyed faction had nothing to extract and a martyr’s grievance to organize around.

But faction that was intact but permanently precarious had obligations to meet and no surplus to fund resistance with.

Better to have them working their entire lives in that almost slave like condition, not entirely unlike the position the Iron-rank tamers of the generations before Ren had occupied in the old system, than to give them nothing left to lose.

Aldric had negotiated from the paying side of that line too, because he had understood it was the only approach that let him and his family survive. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

He had been a competent negotiator, not in the sense of having obtained favorable conditions for his people, but in the sense of having identified the correct threshold where cooperation was the only option that preserved anything, and having guided the opportunist nobles and the once Orion-dependent Starweaver factions toward that threshold with enough firmness that they crossed it before their alternatives ran out entirely.

The result was an opposition that existed on paper and had the real power of a faction that had paid everything it could pay and was barely maintaining the minimum structure required to remain a faction at all. Present in the formal sense, absent in any sense that mattered.

Nobody took anything from Ren or from Luna that was due to them.

Nobody was in a position to mention it, much less attempt it.

The Goldcrest territory had passed to Ren’s administration with all its access points, its ruins, and its resources.

Not only that, ruins throughout all of Yano gave him free access. Even those of Yino, including its strange "brain", which Ren had felt an instinctive revulsion at touching and had not attempted to connect to his network again.

He had obtained several mansions in the noble sectors of the city. Rights over the ruins installations that had produced the water and fire crystals. He had also obtained crystals in a quantity that took two dozen seconds to read in full if anyone tried to state it completely.

Also a level of access to the castle and the archives that Julius had insisted was not "too much" but rather "what is needed to operate correctly at the scale you are operating at", said with the delivery of someone who had made that argument enough times to have stopped feeling self-conscious about how it sounded.

He was free to leave on his own, though he hadn’t done so yet.

The only formal requirement: announce intentions before long expeditions so that there would be a rescue protocol in place if needed. Julius and Larissa had framed it with the bureaucratic language of an administrative requirement and the tone of a family member who knows they can’t prohibit anything but can at least know where someone went.

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