Chapter 349
Matt wished he could say that he was full of confidence when they exited the Arbitration Convention building, but instead he was just wrung out.
People were ultimately people whether they were high Tier or low Tier and the unawakened proved that to Matt better than any research paper ever could. A few of the leaders seemed like genuinely good people looking out for their countries and its peoples but far too many of them only seemed interested in the benefits the integration to the Empire would bring them personally.
After the shock and disbelief they had shown upon reading the briefing, the majority of Soerilia’s leaders quickly shifted their focus.
Unsurprisingly a few of the leaders seemed to think they could just ignore Matt and Liz’s arrival and spoke of things like closing their borders. Matt tried to impress upon them that such actions wouldn’t be tolerated and they should use the time allotted to get their people used to the Empire as much as possible during the time they had.
Those were put on various watch lists to be monitored by the planetary AI Matt was going to set up between meetings.
Because of course there were more meetings.
The two councilors looked at him like he was crazy when one of his statements implied that the intro meeting would be their only meeting. They quickly informed him that they would need a day, preferably two or three, for everyone to meet amongst interest groups and political affiliations so the Soerilia leaders could decide on their course of actions.
Matt wanted to ask what possible course of action they could be planning besides what was laid out in their introductory docket and the larger, more thorough information packet they were all given, but he realized what that would sound like and so held his tongue.
While he wanted to get back to Lily so he could start preparing for his guild, he also wanted this transition from Republic veil world to productive Empire world to go as smoothly as possible.