Desa dropping to one knee left everyone in the hall stunned.
Desa's respectful greeting made the heads of the already stunned guests start buzzing.
What was going on?
What had happened?
Why would that savage woman's retainer greet the "Medium" of South Los and kneel before him as a vassal?
Questions arose in everyone's minds.
The Chief Swordsmen of Baron Coroll and Baron Hausmann looked at Arthur with a new measure of wariness. No one understood Desa's strength better than they did, and no one understood that savage woman's terrifying power better, either. Had she not willingly relinquished her title and honors after her mistake back then, not even the old Count of South Los could have shaken her family's prestige in Barney.
Yet even after she relinquished her title and honors, the current Lord Laurie remained that family's retainer.
Everyone had approved of this change in name only at the time.
Because everyone understood that it was the best possible outcome.
After all, the derogatory label of "barbarians" attached to the Selena Family was no joke. They truly had barbarian blood. No one wanted to see one of them leap forward, land with a terrifying roar, then launch into a frenzied dance of death.
People would really die!
And they would die in droves!
Lord Byrne's old steward, meanwhile, wore a worried expression.
Only moments earlier, the old steward had been secretly gloating. He knew exactly what had caused the "accidents" that befell his family's three young masters, so he harbored hostility toward Malinda. Naturally, that hostility extended to Malinda's "lover," Arthur.
He had been ready to watch a bloody opening act.
Given the Selena Family's way of doing things, that was inevitable.
Who could have imagined that their representative would drop to one knee and address Arthur as