Witnessing this brutal scene, Roland was horrified.
Although he had long known that the Rock Kingdom practiced a strict caste system, he never expected its Royal Family members to trample on life so openly and contemptuously.
They were far worse than the human nobles he had seen in the Golden Valley Kingdom.
Even if those nobles committed filthy deeds in the shadows and exploited the common folk, they at least maintained a basic sense of decorum on the surface, using the law as a final fig leaf.
But this Dwarven royal named Balin... his level of wanton recklessness...
Gazing at the heads on the snow, still steaming slightly, and then at the numb-faced Dwarven commoners and soldiers who had all lowered their heads, Roland's heart grew heavy.
'Judging by Balin's conduct, this kind of arrogance, this treatment of life as if it were worthless, wasn't developed in a day.'
