"Great! Then do as I say and you will be back to your fiefs in no time."
With the nobles properly scared that Alexander would really massacre them all, it did not take long for these nobles to throw Manuk under the bus.
As for how Alexander was so sure that Manuk had truly deserted them, well he had no concrete proof but his hunch was that since no one had bothered to ransom these people something must have happened.
He did not know what so made something up
And that was what brought him to the present, whereupon listening to the captured Zanzan nobles' confession, Alexander turned to address the Tibian entourage,
"Look! This is what you are really fighting for. This is what your so called honorable king plans to do."
"To sacrifice all of you. Just to save himself."
"Do all of you still want to fight for your king? For what?" Alexander spread his arms widely in a grand manner as he posed, before suggesting,