"I believe that this is not just a normal case of human trafficking."
The entire room was then filled with gasps, aghast by this notion. The vassals then looked at His Majesty with questions as they were intrigued why he believed so.
The emperor saw the queries in their faces. "I don't want to assume the worst of things but, this case must be related to the conquisitors."
If it's not them, then who else would it be? That group is notorious for a lot of things, and it is mainly for slaughtering and kidnapping certain people. It has been so long since their last conquest that rocked the world and had just now resurfaced again to target Nadia.
Thinking that for all these years that they had been silent was because they are lying dormant would be foolish. People like them do not rest, not until their goals are achieved.
Who knows what kind of horrors they had been up to under the public's eyes? These missing cases could only be them.