The moment Lowell took that fountain pen, there would be no turning back.


    Vellanos, the nation his ancestors had fought so hard to protect, would in all but name become a vassal state of the Empire.@@@@


    ''But...''


    The horrors that would unfold if he refused haunted his mind.


    Just as Daniel had said, the Empire had a perfectly justifiable casus belli.


    A heavy breath slipped between his clenched teeth.


    If he refused to submit, the Empire would destroy Vellanos.


    ''The one who orchestrated all of this...''


    It was none other than the man sitting before him—Daniel Steiner.


    Despite surviving the attack on the diplomatic vessel, Daniel had deliberately kept his survival a secret from the Empire.


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