Chapter 94: Payback

Artemisia could be really scary when she needed to be… Aion thought that his mother was like a pure and selfless angel since she accepted ten years in prison without complaining. Still, she once was a princess of a kingdom that waged war against many kingdoms. She knew a thing or two about how things work in that kind of society.

Regardless, it seemed that the territories on the borders weren't that well-watched by the king and his loyal subjects that much. They would rather send spies beyond the borders and look away at the activities of the people guarding the borders. Thanks to that, they were ignoring several laws that the king had enforced to make the realm look better… like kids can't become slaves, they can't sell war prisoners as slaves, capture people of other kingdoms and sell them as slaves, or make people who have too many debts stay as slaves for more than a year…