The man from Luo Er said, "Five years ago, two fugitives from the Kingdom of Luo Er escaped to the Free Valley. Now that Hua Xia has established itself in that valley, according to the rules, you need to hand them over to us for their sentencing."
Ji Fengyan's gaze turned a notch chillier at the man's words.
The various nations had a rule among them that no one was to harbor a criminal wanted by another kingdom. Otherwise, it would be the equivalent of slapping the other kingdom in the face. In the most severe cases, it might even lead to war.
But this was not a hard and fast rule. It varied according to the comparable strengths of the two countries involved.
If a small nation harbored another country's fugitive, it would extradite the criminal to avoid a war, because of its own weak state. Nevertheless, such clear-cut cases only occurred when there was a huge disparity in the power of the two nations involved.
