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Dragonborn with evil dragon bloodlines had never been a particularly principled bunch. Freedom was certainly precious, but compared to their lives, the choice they would make hardly required any thought. Of course, that was assuming no one handled things the way Klauth had before.

No matter how shameless these Dragonborn were, they could never tolerate the way Klauth had treated them. That guy had been utterly deranged when it came to his own bloodline. Who knew whether he had suffered some kind of trauma in the past?

Considering that he was said to possess the bloodline of Balagos the Flying Flame, perhaps that really was the case.

In any event, the Dragonborn had reached a consensus: they would become slaves again. Though that consensus left every one of them feeling thoroughly humiliated.

Solam was quite satisfied as well, because the number of Dragonborn had fallen to a level he could control. Their recent bout of mutual slaughter had cut their numbers in half, leaving only twenty-three.

Originally, one important reason Solam had not planned to take the Dragonborn as subordinates was that he lacked the means to control so many of them. He did not have enough Mind Flayer collars or enslavement contract scrolls.

Nor did these Dragonborn have any faith, so he could not even ask a deity to bear witness. That was why Solam had previously abandoned the idea of taking them in as subordinates. But things were different now. Half of the Dragonborn were dead, and handling the rest would be much easier.

Mind Flayer collars were far too precious for Solam to use them all, but he could accept using two or three. After all, the Dragonborn who had survived until now were no weaklings. Solam was willing to spend two or three collars to control