The councilors fell silent. They remembered the riot at the harbor the previous year. Although the City Lord had been absent, the trolls and human soldiers under his command had slaughtered more than four thousand people in a single night. Blood had flowed in rivers.
They also remembered what the City Lord had said before the council was established. But over the past few years, he had stayed either at the harbor or on the battlefield and had never once visited Quel'Danil City. The military community's representatives also kept to the Military District and never came up unless they had business. As time passed, everyone had grown hazy on his words and the warnings he had given them.
"Since the members of the Quel'Danil Council and the majority of its councilors have harmed the interests of the nation and its people, passing a resolution that betrays both, they are no longer qualified to serve as councilors. I hereby declare the Quel'Danil Council dissolved, effective immediately!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk shouted.
The noble faction's councilors were stunned, and the elves watching the live broadcast outside the Council Hall were equally shocked. They had never expected the City Lord to dissolve the council over this affair. They had assumed he would, at most, overturn its resolution and leave it at that.
Only the Royalist Party Faction's councilors sneered indifferently. To them, the Quel'Danil Council was merely a joke, a game. Their status as councilors was something they could take or leave.
They turned and headed outside, but the gryphon riders guarding the doors blocked their path. The gryphon riders around them also nocked arrows and drew their bows, aiming at them. If they dared make a reckless move, blood would splatter everywhere.
"City Lord, since the council has been dissolved and we are