This course of action was, of course, the result of discussions with the Dwarf Pantheon.
Although the death sentences of those peripheral members of the "Isis" organization had been commuted, Sui Xiong could not let them off without any punishment at all. By tradition, when someone who ought to have been executed was spared, they were usually first beaten half to death, then exiled. Sui Xiong could not be bothered to beat them, so he simply exiled them.
But where to exile them was a major problem.
He could not toss them into a place where only cacti, ants, and other tenacious lifeforms could survive, nor could he send them somewhere overrun by Magic Beasts and fraught with danger. That would violate the spirit of sparing them from death. Besides, without supervision, who knew what trouble these people might cause?
He had considered taking them to the Northwest Republic and putting them to hard labor under military surveillance. But after thinking it over carefully, he abandoned the idea.
These people had all been deeply influenced by the extreme ideology of "Isis." If he kept them in the Northwest Republic, who knew whether they would stir up some enormous disaster?
Sui Xiong absolutely did not dare underestimate extremist ideology. On Earth, in a world without even true gods, extremist ideologies had forged nation after nation as hard and cold as steel. In this world, which had true gods, who knew how far they could take things!
Even though these people ought to have belonged to the relatively moderate faction within "Isis," he had no intention of using the Northwest Republic to test whether the "moderates" would make some huge news for him.
Heaven knew, not long before he transmigrated, he had heard that some "moderates" over in Europe had made huge