Draiss nodded to both requests, at the same time someone clarified something about the new idea, so no one else had any idea he was holding three conversations as once. The current emperor had a decent idea what they could do, but the new emperor would have a better one, and Draiss was thinking of putting a death squad unit at his use, with restrictions of course. He answered questions about his new idea, mostly clarifying or correcting, but for the most part they had a basic idea what a city state should be like, though they wanted to use Dragon's Roost to test them, knowing he wouldn't overplay the power given, but would tell them what he could do with it. He did advise keeping the tribute about equal to the taxes, though at a 20% reduction since he was having to supply his own troops, but since his town was also the current major provider of all luxury goods in the empire, thanks to his 'innovations' in farming and use of the underground to expand without impacting the farming above, he figured it wouldn't be too big a hit to them. Especially since he had always paid his taxes early, collecting them a week before their actual due date to ensure he knew of any issues, and not taxing his citizens to poverty like the other nobles were want to do. He had the highest capita city, the highest happiness, and the lowest crime rate, crime being non-existent thanks to the constructs, and the highest literacy rate in likely the world. It was a model on how to properly run a city without grinding it into the ground, another reason the nobles likely wanted it away from him. He was making them and their families look like the incompetents they were. The only reason he wasn't the new capital was because he had halted expansion of the valley, more like a hidden nation now, with one way in through the bottleneck at the bottom.<br/><br/>That night, he was sitting in the same room, and showing with illusions what the emperor THOUGHT the constructs were capable of, fighting like a profession force of lvl 15s, and then showing more of their capabilities, closer to a force of level 20s. He then brought up an explanation on the different types of constructs, including the gorilla siege units, before explaining the difference between the shadow stalkers and the death squads. It was likely an eye opener, especially when he dropped how many he was prepared to reveal, nearly a million, not mentioning that was less than a millionth of their actual numbers, before, unnecessarily, pointing out every other divine and mortal power in the multiplanarverse could barely field three full squads of epics, let alone how many he could.