The fallout was contained.
The Grand Chancellor, who had been briefed on the operation in advance, ensured that the legal proceedings moved quickly and quietly. The families' crimes were exposed, their assets seized, their titles revoked. The death was recorded as a duel of honor—technically accurate, officially sanctioned, and diplomatically convenient.
No one asked who had provided the evidence. No one asked how a middle-tier saint had been able to bypass the defenses of a noble's estate. No one asked because the answers were obvious, and the people who might have asked were already calculating how to position themselves for the redistribution of the fallen families' assets.
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Maxwell's transformation was, in the Consortium's internal culture, a subject of considerable interest.
