Rivers of the Night

Chapter 284: Majority or Minority

A silence fell. No one quite knew how to react to these words at all. Was this really all Theron wanted to say?

They kept waiting for more to come out, for more to be said, for there to be a follow-up of some sort.

To the side, the judges hidden in the shadows frowned.

The judges—as well as the audience, for that matter—were actually selected from all five Empires. The judges themselves were even more neutral as they were hand-selected by the Black Clan and were scholars and cultivators with no strong ties to any of the Imperial Clans.

For example, the head judge in this case, a man known as Scholar Mcintyre by most, wasn’t born in any of the five Empires. Instead, he was born outside of this region entirely, hailing from a territory beyond the Black Clan’s influence before migrating here to learn of the culture and expand his horizons.

He ended up falling in love with his now wife and chose to settle down. Right now, he lived on the outskirts of Black Clan territory—not within the provinces, but instead right on the border of the true Black Clan lands.

This was a thriving region with many intellectuals and often acted as a hub for trade because it was easily accessible by so many merchants.