Okay, this is what makes me nuts here. If you can:
1) Take over a town.
2) Mind control everyone inside.
3) Hold off all attempts by the local authorities to stop you.
4) Defeat all adversaries who attempt to stop you.
5) Willingly choose to stop.
6) Walk away with no one able to stop you or impose any consequences.
YOU ARE AN AUTHORITY.
It does not matter that you are unelected, self-appointed authority. You are an authority. You have the power to do, apparently, whatever you want. That seems more worthy of skepticism than the authority who is being hauled off to jail, at least to me.