Silvermine City's New Order

No one except Lux had enjoyed the meal.

For nobles who had lived by etiquette and rules all their lives, Lux's complete disregard for propriety left them somewhat at a loss.

Lux had even made it clear that she intended to completely crush the old rules of the nobility and sever ties with aristocratic politics. Yet quite a few people were still trying to find a way to make her swallow her words, minimizing the matter until it disappeared.

At that moment, the nobility's conservatism was laid bare.

Lux, of course, could not back down.

In fact, after the banquet, the arrests and trials quickly expanded to include Silvermine City's entire law-enforcement apparatus.

This time, aside from Silvermine City's Northern Second Legion, the Northern Wanderers and the clerks also took part in the arrests.

Relying on Freljord's meticulous household registration system, clerks whose origins lay in Silvermine City were assigned to the operation. Together with the Northern Second Legion, they arrested the lackeys who had aroused immense public resentment in Silvermine City and, after gathering evidence, put them through public trials.

When the tribunal was erected and one tightly bound law enforcer and tax official after another was dragged before it, accused, allowed to attempt a defense, and then judged with facts and evidence, the commoners who had initially come just to watch the spectacle gradually grew excited.

Could things really be done this way?

Explain the law in plain, easy-to-understand terms, tell everyone about these people's crimes, and then judge them!

Was this justice?

So this was justice!

When the trials began, the people remained silent.

But as the trials proceeded, as one former lackey after another was imprisoned or flogged, and even hanged for taking lives, curses and cheers finally began to rise.

Although the laws used in