12's Answer

Alexander himself was quite pleased with how the negotiations went.

Although none had jumped to say yes then and there, there were also no bullish nobles threatening him to fight to the death.

An event he would like to very much avoid given the recent happenings.

Although to be honest that might have been largely due to the copious amount of honey Alexander had laid out on the table in the form of economic benefit.

Hence, many nobles who had indeed come to Zanzan with the desire to flat-out reject Alexander and even die a martyr started having second thoughts right after seeing the second page.

Money truly did make the world go around.

Thus in the following three days, the group of 12 was engaged in many furious private debates, either with all of them present, or in small groups, where all kinds of colorful language and suggestions, accusations, threats, and curses were thrown out against each other as they tried to come up with a unanimous conclusion.