"Nations cannot interfere with one another. If a nation was to invade another the invading king and kirin would be struck down by the gods." Which was a safe guard at least. It did make things hard though, it meant that in his case their allies from Kei and En couldn't move into Tai to protect people from Asen or even to look for Lord Gyousou.

He bowed his head, "I'm eighteen." He was probably close to nineteen, but he had lost track of time.