"Look at that, they are sending your daughter in again," Maximillian said. "Earlier than expected." Nariko didn't even honour the crown prince with a response. He was a business partner, nothing more. His insistence on keeping his mighty tone only served to prove his ignorance about where this world was heading.
Nobles like him would eventually become obsolete. Truthfully, if Lydia won this whole thing, it would hasten the process where the Abyss Auction was the one pulling the strings of the world through the sheer power of wealth alone. Her fighting on the side of the king of gravity was a personal calculation.