Grue Augustus realized that he had made a blunder and hurriedly contacted his father again.
This time, the originally confident Sosgate also felt at a loss, sinking into confusion, and then gave up struggling. He just instructed his inept younger son to act as he saw fit, stay the full duration there, gather as many people as possible, and then calmly accept failure.
After disconnecting the communication, Sosgate rubbed his temples, his mind full of chaotic thoughts, unable to sort them out.
It was a precedent hard to find even after scouring the Empire's history books, and he had encountered it.
He couldn't tell what kind of spell Ren Zhong had cast on those people, making these frog-in-the-well-like commoners utterly devoted to him.
But there was another possibility: in the long history of the Mechanical Empire, it was extremely rare for an Earl to serve as the person in charge of a Tracer colonization.
