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Jonas frowned upon hearing that. "Are you suggesting that we do the same thing?" he asked. Elara nodded, and Jonas shook his head.

"Doing something like that is against what our kingdom stands for, especially when you consider my position in our kingdom. If word got out that someone from the royal family did that, what would our people think?" Jonas said, shaking his head.

Gesturing at the other kingdoms, Jonas continued, "They are all small kingdoms. Doing something like this has no repercussions for them. How can we, the second-largest kingdom on this continent, stoop to such a low level, especially in our rival kingdom?"

Elara said nothing as she kept looking at Jonas. Turning around and walking away, she said, "Then we should inform the others that we are leaving since we are never going to get an audience with the Sun King."