Not a word was said, but the message couldn't be any clearer.
Miranda's grandfather had already defused the situation, and trying to reignite tension now would only make them appear unreasonable. She may have bruised their pride by saying they had cowered in fear, but any attempt to refute her now would do more harm than good.
It would no longer look like a defence of pride, but a petty attempt to provoke conflict after calm had been restored.
In the end, it would be their reputations that would suffer the most.
So, whether dragon or otherwise, all who had wanted to speak kept their mouths shut.
Because as blunt as Miranda's words had been, it wasn't like they were false.
The Destruction Supreme was feared throughout Zanerth and beyond not just for his overwhelming power, but for his ability to erase a person completely from existence, leaving no memory of them remaining in the minds of those who had once known them.
It was a true deletion from reality itself.
