Mana disaster (5)

"... What did you say? I think I must have misheard."

"I'm sorry, but you didn't. Your people were sacrificed and subjected to such terrible deaths only to make mana stones."

Being the one to bring the terrible news to lady Grishu, Xi and Chad, Dax kept a completely blank expression as he slowly and clearly told them about the findings Lux had made while she observed.

"All this suffering, for something so trivial?... Why?"

"Most likely because of me."

Directing the source of their anger to himself still while remaining completely without any expression, Dax continued explaining in a calm tone of voice.

"I'm a threat to the Empire which suddenly appeared out of nowhere, as they needed to suddenly increase their fighting capabilities while expanding their standing army, all options to secure resupply were considered… It was actually a quite logical response, to be honest."