"The Spiritual Palace Sect, Your Majesty. The absent families are mostly powers that are members of this organization... But there are some noble families not connected to that sect that are not present as well." That member of the Gray Clouds Sect informed Minos.
Upon hearing that, Emperor Stuart made a serious expression, not liking that at all. The powers that had been missing were all organizations their leaders had chosen to believe Mortimer would be the big winner of the conflict.
So he couldn't just stand by and do nothing against them!
These people needed to be punished as souls who had chosen to rebel!
Not everyone deserves death, but someone would undoubtedly need to die to pay for the many crimes they had committed.
Otherwise, how could the state remain peaceful and without chaos if any rebel could escape the consequences of such a troublesome act?