Chapter 4: By Right of Conquest
Thane’s words left the guards carrying corpses frozen in place, and the mercenaries tying up the bandits also stopped what they were doing.
Eliric’s eyes lit up as he spat out the grass stem from his mouth and shouted,
"Hell, that actually makes perfect sense!"
Pamin lowered his head, his hand rubbing his chin as he thought it through.
The lord’s logic is actually bulletproof!
That’s when it hit Pamin like a ton of bricks.
His lord wasn’t just trying to weaken the Beuigclair caravan’s position and gain some negotiating power.
He was letting the bandits straight-up rob the Beuigclair caravan, then confiscating the bandits’ loot!
Even though the goods were still the same caravan merchandise, after this little detour, Thane as lord of Shadowpine Ridge could legally claim everything as his own!
Even though Pamin knew imperial law inside and out, he couldn’t find a single hole in this approach.
Kralfard had no clue who Thane was and covered his face while loudly protesting,