Talk:Eight Greed Kings/@comment-77.98.238.169-20180813002046/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180813040307

It means they could go wherever they liked and do as they please and nobody else could do a thing about it without being killed horribly.

Until they started fighting each other.

In terms of actually establishing their rule over areas, it seems that they didn't bother with that much outside of the immediate vicinity of their Guild Base. But conquest doesn't actually require establishing any regular government beyond being able to say "give me that or I'll kill you."