Chapter 529: Senator Hestia … In a Way.
Multiple proficiency requirements fulfilled. [Idol Lv. 8] [True Draconic Barrier Lv. 5] [True Unarmed Technique Lv. 6] [Tyrant’s Voice Lv. 3] [All-Damage Enhancement Lv. 3] [Ice Resistance Lv. 6] [Water Resistance Lv. 10] [Scale Manipulation Lv. 9] [Territory Release Lv. 5] gained
Ability gained: [Wind’s Trail] [Kargryxmor Style: Sky Sunderer]
Spell song gained: [Starstruck Winterscape]
“May all of you be welcomed.”
The doors closed with a thunderous slam as the senate’s hearing room at the city hall was filled to the brim with chatter and growls, clearly Draconic from the controlled manner these guttural sounds were. The meeting seemed like it would start soon, but unlike that quiet, informative discussion I had with the dragonewts with Mom to get us caught up to Iceskale’s state of affairs, this seemed like a fight was brewing.
Suffice to say, this wasn’t like a political discussion as you would normally imagine from Earth. Even with different political factions acting cutthroat and undermining the other to garner supporters for the next election, most of the time, it was done for the betterment of the country. At least, you would hope your politicians would do that.
However, here, these weren’t politicians, per se. This was a senate composed out of dragonkin; a gathering of multiple clans each with their own agendas and goals, with some having formed alliances. Frozen Nest, and Kargryx as a whole, wasn’t a democracy. Even if Loatryx acted like a republic with people able to vote in politicians and bureaucrats to hopefully influence these meetings, the power lay in the true dragonkin ruling over the nest.
It might be different on the Altrust colony of Loatryx, but here on Iceskale, you had to persuade dragons.
… Well, not always, at least, that was what I understood from Sieg’s lectures. The draconic patriarch or matriarch of a clan rarely ever participated in these senate meetings, as they would usually hibernate, train, or play with their relatives, leaving the senate, bureaucracy, and financial duties to their dragonewt descendants to handle. These dragonewts would prioritize clan interest, but due to two millennia of intermingling with multiple clans, elves, dwarves, beastmen, and humans, most of these politicians were usually more down-to-earth compared to their true draconic relatives.