章 158: Sucking Them Dry

Drogo's glare was replaced with shock. Over the entire period of rebellion, not once a royal had come to talk to them. Lazarus came and made them face the reality of it. He had to save his face in front of his people. He took a deep breath in and got up. "Prince Lazarus, this rebellion will not go down. The more you try to suppress us, the more we are going to raise our heads. The more you kill us, the more we are going to rise against you. There is no way you can stop us unless you give us what we want. We have been living on these lands for a very long time and all we demand is that we are recognized!" 

"Yes! Yes!" His people began thumping the table in approval, cheering for their leader.

Drogo continued, "We demand that we are recognized! We want the lands. It is our home and you can't uproot us from here!"